Sentence examples for Shiva from high-quality English sources.

• The name Shiva is Sanskrit for “Auspicious One.”

• Vandana Shiva as one of the top Seven most Powerful Women on the Globe.

• Jews interviewed here said they had been too busy burying the dead, and trekking from shiva to shiva, to devote much thought to the killer.

• Located just east of Kathmandu on the banks of the Bagmati River, the Pashupatinath temple is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva and is best known for its magnificent architecture.

• Rudra-Shiva developed into an ambivalent and many-sided lord and master.

• Like Shiva, she can be either beneficial or fierce, depending on her form.

• The respect shown to the bull in modern India is due to its association with Shiva.

• Sculptures of him in human form are found at the entrance of many Shiva temples in South India.

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• This is true, for example, of the two principal gods of Puranic Hinduism, Vishnu and Rudra-Shiva.

• When Shiva appeared before him in an androgynous form, Brahma realized his omission and created females.

• Later he came to be regarded as a worshipper of Shiva or even an incarnation of Shiva himself.

• Like Vishnu, Shiva is held by devotees to be the entire universe, yet he is worshipped in various manifestations and in hundreds of local temples.

• Shiva is depicted as a conical shaft (lingam) of fire within a womb (yoni), illustrating the creative powers of Shiva and Parvati.

• Maha-shivaratri, (Sanskrit: “Great Night of Shiva”) the most important sectarian festival of the year for devotees of the Hindu god Shiva.

• Kashmiri Shaivism begins with the Shiva-sutra, or “Lines of Doctrine Concerning Shiva” (c. 850), as a new revelation of Shiva.

• The Shvetashvatara Upanishad treats Shiva as the paramount deity, and Shiva is an important god in the two great Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

Shiva sentence examples

• The profile photo in the corner of the screen was of Seema with her arms almost around Shiva, behind them the neo-Georgian shell of the six-thousand-square-foot Rhinebeck house in progress.

• EVERY summer across north India, millions of Hindu youths honour Lord Shiva by travelling to the sacred Ganges to collect holy water for anointing the Shiva lingams in their local temples.

• After the local police at Baroli learned from Shrivastava that Kasmin was allegedly in possession of the real Shiva, a panel of archeologists was summoned to inspect the Shiva being held in Chittorgarh.

• The ambivalence of life-death is also found in a series of Hindu divinities (e.g., Shiva and Kali) and cults whose death-inflicting characteristics are justified in a paradoxical celebration of the recurring triumph of life.