Shiva-Parvati (Iconography)
author: Thomas Eugene Donaldson
edition: 2007, D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1201
ISBN-10: 8124603596
ISBN-13: 9788124603598
Topic: Shilpashastra
Ardhanarisvara
This chapter describes Ardhanarisvara located on page 60 in the book Shiva-Parvati and Allied Images (Their Iconography and Body Language). This book deals with the study of sculptures of Shiva-Parvati and other images such as the Murtis of Anugraha, Umamaheshvara and Umasahita as well as the mythological background of the deities represents by those sculptures. The two volumes contain over 700 images dedicated to the study of postures and body language of various sculptures, the sculptor’s technique.. This chapter is part of the collection Mythological Background: Ancillary motifs of Siva and Parvati.
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Iconography of Buddhist and Brahmanical Sculptures [by Nalini Kanta Bhattasali]
Iconography of Ardhanarishvara. [[[ p. 270 ]]] 3. A. (ii) f. ARDHANARISVARA. These images, which represent Siva and his Sakti merged into one body, half being male and the other half female, are rather rare in Bengal....
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Shat-cakra-nirupana (the six bodily centres) [by Arthur Avalon]
—By this is meant Arddhanarishvara. The Deva Arddhanarishvara is of a golden colour on the left, and snowwhite on the right. He dwells in the lap of Nabho-Bija. He is described as “the Deva Sada-Shiva garbed in white raiment. Half His body being inseparate from that of Girija, He is both silvern and golden�. He is also spoken of as “possessed of the down-turned digit (Kala) of the Moon which constantly drops nectar�....
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Prayogamanjari and Saivagamanibandhana (Study) [by R. Suthashi]
Outside Kerala also the Ardhanarisvara form is met with. In Tamil Nadu it is seen in Kumbhakonam, Madhura and Mahabalipuram....
Read full contents: Description of Ardhanarishvara-Murti
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[Shiva-Parvati (Iconography): index]
[About the Author (Thomas Eugene Donaldson)]
[Introduction]