Most gods sit on thrones. Shiva sits on a tiger skin, under open skies. Most gods are adorned in gold. Shiva wears ash from the cremation ground. In a pantheon filled with gods of order, law, and ...

1. Shiva is 'shakti' or power, Shiva is the destroyer, the most powerful god of the Hindu pantheon and one of the godheads in the Hindu Trinity. Known by many names - Mahadeva, Mahayogi, Pashupati, ...

In Hindu mythology, the devas (gods) and asuras (demons) are often portrayed as eternal rivals locked in a cosmic battle of dharma and adharma, good and evil. But there is one divine figure both sides ...

From written and unwritten sources, from Tantrik and Vedic texts, from shrutis and smritis, we get three meanings of the term Shiva. What does Shiva mean? From written and unwritten sources, from ...