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The Lingam (also, Linga, Ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, Sanskrit लिङ्गं liṅgaṃ, meaning "mark" or "sign") is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples. The lingam is often represented with the Yoni, a symbol of the goddess or of Shakti, female creative energy. The union of lingam and yoni represents the "indivisible two-in-oneness of male and female, the passive space and active time from which all life originates". A complementary theory suggests that the Lingam represents the beginningless and endless Stambha pillar, symbolizing the infinite nature of Shiva.
This is a pose from the dance Shiva Tandava.
Raagmaalikaa, a garland of Ragas
Taalmaalaa, a wreath of taals or beats
Shiva Tandava is an abhinaya that describes the Lord Shiva in his seven forms.
Best viewed as a slideshow of the Odissi Dance Set. (video here)
A typical Odissi repertoire consists of the invocatory item 'Mangalacharan', a tribute to Lord Jagannath and the other Gods, also with stanzas to welcome the audience and to thank one's Gurus.
'Abhinaya' is a dramatic piece where mudras, facial expressions and body language are used as tools to emote or describe. In Odissi, abhinaya pieces are performed to both Sanskrit and Oriya songs.
'Moksha' is a pure-dance piece where the dancer tries to merge with the divine.
Institute: Jyoti Kala Mandir
Guru: Jyoti Rout
The Lingam (also, Linga, Ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, Sanskrit लिङ्गं liṅgaṃ, meaning "mark" or "sign") is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples. The lingam is often represented with the Yoni, a symbol of the goddess or of Shakti, female creative energy. The union of lingam and yoni represents the "indivisible two-in-oneness of male and female, the passive space and active time from which all life originates". A complementary theory suggests that the Lingam represents the beginningless and endless Stambha pillar, symbolizing the infinite nature of Shiva.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhelum_River
Jehlam River or Jhelum River (/ˈdʒeɪləm/) is a river that flows in the Indian and Pakistani controlled portions of Kashmir, and Punjab in Pakistan. It is the westernmost of the five rivers of Punjab, and passes through Jhelum District. It is a tributary of the Chenab River and has a total length of about 725 kilometres (450 mi).
Etymology
The Sanskrit name of this river is Vitasta. The river got this name from the mythological incident regarding the origin of the river as explained in Nilamata Purana. Goddess Parvati was requested by sage Kasyapa to come to Kashmir for purification of the land from evil practices and impurities of Pisachas living there. Goddess Parvati then assumed the form of a river in the Nether World. Then Lord Shiva made a stroke with his spear near the abode of Nila (Verinag Spring). By that stroke of the spear, Goddess Parvati came out of the Nether World. Shiva himself named her as Vitasta. He had excavated with the spear a ditch measuring one Vitasti(a particular measure of length defined either as a long span between the extended thumb and little finger, or as the distance between the wrist and the tip of the fingers, and said to be about 9 inches), through which the river - gone to the Nether World - had come out, so she was given the name Vitasta by him.
History
The river Jhelum is called Vitastā in the Rigveda and Hydaspes by the ancient Greeks. The Vitasta (Sanskrit: वितस्ता, fem., also, Vetastā) is mentioned as one of the major rivers by the holy scriptures — the Rigveda. It has been speculated that the Vitastā must have been one of the seven rivers (sapta-sindhu) mentioned so many times in the Rigveda. The name survives in the Kashmiri name for this river as Vyeth. According to the major religious work Srimad Bhagavatam, the Vitastā is one of the many transcendental rivers flowing through land of Bharata, or ancient India.
The river was regarded as a god by the ancient Greeks, as were most mountains and streams; the poet Nonnus in the Dionysiaca (section 26, line 350) makes the Hydaspes a titan-descended god, the son of the sea-god Thaumas and the cloud-goddess Elektra. He was the brother of Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, and half-brother to the Harpies, the snatching winds. Since the river is in a country foreign to the ancient Greeks, it is not clear whether they named the river after the god, or whether the god Hydaspes was named after the river. Alexander the Great and his army crossed the Jhelum in BC 326 at the Battle of the Hydaspes River where he defeated the Indian king, Porus. According to Arrian (Anabasis, 29), he built a city "on the spot whence he started to cross the river Hydaspes", which he named Bukephala (or Bucephala) to honour his famous horse Bukephalus or Bucephalus which was buried in Jalalpur Sharif. It is thought that ancient Bukephala was near the site of modern Jhelum City. According to a historian of Gujrat district, Mansoor Behzad Butt, Bukephalus was buried in Jalalpur Sharif, but the people of Mandi Bahauddin, a district close to Jehlum, believed that their tehsil Phalia was named after Bucephalus, Alexander's dead horse. They say that the name Phalia was the distortion of the word Bucephala. The waters of the Jhelum are allocated to Pakistan under the terms of the Indus Waters Treaty. India is working on a hydropower project on a tributary of Jhelum river to establish first-use rights on the river water over Pakistan as per the Indus waters Treaty.[3]
Course
The river Jhelum rises from Verinag Spring situated at the foot of the Pir Panjal in the south-eastern part of the valley of Kashmir. It flows through Srinagar and the Wular lake before entering Pakistan through a deep narrow gorge. The Neelum River, the largest tributary of the Jhelum, joins it, at Domel Muzaffarabad, as does the next largest, the Kunhar River of the Kaghan valley. It also connects with rest of Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Kohala Bridge east of Circle Bakote. It is then joined by the Poonch river, and flows into the Mangla Dam reservoir in the district of Mirpur. The Jhelum enters the Punjab in the Jhelum District. From there, it flows through the plains of Pakistan's Punjab, forming the boundary between the Chaj and Sindh Sagar Doabs. It ends in a confluence with the Chenab at Trimmu in District Jhang. The Chenab merges with the Sutlej to form the Panjnad River which joins the Indus River at Mithankot.
Dams and barrages
Water control structures are being built as a result of the Indus Basin Project, including the following:
Mangla Dam, completed in 1967, is one of the largest earthfill dams in the world, with a storage capacity of 5,900,000 acre feet (7.3 km3)
Rasul Barrage, constructed in 1967, has a maximum flow of 850,000 ft³/s (24,000 m³/s).
Trimmu Barrage, constructed in 1939 some 90 km from Mari Shah Sakhira town, at the confluence with the Chenab, has maximum discharge capacity of 645,000 ft³/s (18,000 m³/s).
Haranpur (Victoria Bridge) Constructed in 1933 Approximate 5 km from Malakwal near Chak Nizam Village. Its length is 1 km mainly used by Pakistan Railways but there is a passage for light vehicles, motorcycles, cycles and pedestrians at one side.
Canals
The Upper Jhelum Canal runs from Mangla Dam to the Chenab.
The Rasul-Qadirabad Link Canal runs from the Rasul Barrage to the Chenab.
The Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal runs from the Chashma Barrage on the Indus River to the Jhelum river downstream of Rasul Barrage. This is 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Mari Shah Sakhira town.
A beautiful panel depicting Shiva's wedding with Parvathi in one of the gopurams of Nataraja temple at Chidambaram !!!
Here Lord Vishnu is performing Kanyadhan by pouring water whereas Lord Bhrahma is performing the marriage rituals !!!
நங்கை என் நோற்றாள் கொல்லோ நம்பியைத் திளைத்தற்கு என்பர்
மங்கையை மணப்பான் என்னோ வள்ளலும் நோற்றான் என்பர்
அங் கடி மதுரை என்னோ ஆற்றிய தவந்தான் என்பார்
இங்கு இவர் வதுவை காண்பான் என்ன நாம் நோற்றோம் என்பார் !!!
திருவிளையாடற் புராணம்
திருமணப் படலம்
இந்த நம்பியை மணமுடிக்க இந்நங்கை என்ன தவம் செய்தாளோ என்பர் சிலர் !!!
இம்மங்கையை மணக்க இந்த வள்ளல் என்ன தவம் செய்தானோ என வியப்பர் சிலர் !!!
இத்திருமணம் இங்கு நிகழ இம் மதுரை மாநகர் செய்த தவம்தான் என்ன என்பர் சிலர் !!!
இத் திருமணத்தைக் காண நாமெல்லாம்
செய்த தவம்தான் என்ன என்று மகிழ்வர் சிலர் !!!
This statue of GOD is in Ganga @ Ramjhula, Paramartha Niketan
20/06/2013 - This capture was taken @ year 2010. Recent disaster of Uttrakhand has destroyed this unique creation of this God Shiva. I was watched this destruction in Television. I am very much upset not to see this sculpture of the God on the same location in future. But this capture will be here.
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A Sadhu (Hindu Ascetic) posed as Lord Shiva in disguise at Gangasagar
A group of folk performers who assume several forms [In Sanskrit 'bahu' (many) and 'rupa' (form)] and playfully take on different identities. The bahurupis portray several hundred characters borrowing stories from epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata; folk tales of gods and goddesses in disguise; stories built around common characters and inspirational stories about personalities.
For make-up, the bahurupi uses ingredients like zinc oxide, vaseline, coconut oil, vermilion powder and alaktaka liquid. In West Bengal, bahurupis have been around for the past 150 years. They still function in West Bengal in and around the districts of Birbhum, Burdwan, Murshidabad, Hooghly, Medinipur and Nadia.
Shiva statue at the temple next to Total Mall Bangalore. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murugeshpalya
Had always been told there was a large statue at the temple but didn't realise it was a humungous 65 feet tall one until I turned up there to shoot it one night!
The trishula symbolism is polyvalent and rich. The trishula is wielded by the Hindu God Shiva and is said to have been used to sever the original head of Ganesha. Durga also holds trishula, as one of her many weapons. There are many other gods and deities, who hold the weapon trishula. The three points have various meanings and significance, and, common to Hindu religion, have many stories behind them. They are commonly said to represent various trinities—creation, maintenance and destruction, past, present and future, the three guna. When looked upon as a weapon of Shiva, the trishula is said to destroy the three worlds: the physical world, the world of the forefathers (representing culture drawn from the past) and the world of the mind (representing the processes of sensing and acting). The three worlds are supposed to be destroyed by Shiva into a single non-dual plane of existence, that is bliss alone.
In the human body, the trishula also represents the place where the three main nadis, or energy channels (ida, pingala and shushmana) meet at the brow. Shushmana, the central one, continues upward to the 7th chakra, or energy center, while the other two end at the brow, there the 6th chakra is located. The trisula's central point represents Shushmana, and that is why it is longer than the other two, representing ida and pingala.
This sculpture of Shiva (a detail of him alone) is from India c. the 1960s. It is brass with silver inlay.
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California
Lord Shiva has 108 names in Hindu religion
Om Shivaya Namaha would literally translate to as "Obeisance to the Auspicious One ".
In the HIndu cosmology of creation of the universe and its destruction the postulates of the Big Bang Theory and the creation of matter and its subsumption into energy remains uniquely codified alongwith a time frame for the creation and flippinng over of the universe into a warp zone of nothingness.
Lord Shiva is the destroyer of the demons and the Universe.
Thankfully we are yet to reach the zone of nothingness.
We can breathe and post pictures ;-))
This is a shot of a Lord Shiva in creation, the making of Him for a float at Pulikali festival in Thrissur, Kerala, India.
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