Ardhanarishvara
अर्धनारीश्वर ardhanarisvaraThe form of Shiva that is half male and half female, united with the Goddess down one side; the presiding form at the throat centre (vishuddha) in the Sat-chakra-nirupana.
Where this term appears
- Who is Parvati? Deities
A serious account names the disagreement and does not pick. Ardhanarishvara is where the argument becomes sculpture.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
It is the strangest of the cycles, the god who himself takes on sin and exile. Ardhanarishvara.
- Vishuddha: The Pure Treatise
…adashiva , and the text shows him in a form that no lower centre had: Ardhanarishvara , the Lord who is half woman, the great snow-white deity, three-eyed and five-faced, ten-armed, his body united with that of…
- The Nisvasa: the oldest tantra, and what it does not yet know Lineages
In the Nisvasa , at Nayasutra 3.42 to 44a, the eastern face is Ardhanarishvara, the half-woman form, and it belongs to a four-faced Ishvara rather than to the five-faced Sadashiva of the later tradition, which …
- The Bull and the Beetle Treatise
Nandin (Nandi) and Bhringi are two of Shiva's most intimate attendants, and between them they carry the deepest lessons of the whole idea of a divine retinue.…
- The Tamil Siddha Lineage Treatise
…engode Bhuvaneshwari (the western Tamil Nadu goddess temple where the Ardhanarishvara form of Shiva-Shakti is the principal deity), Kanchipuram Kamakshi (which Chapter 5 named as the Samaya-tradition temple, bu…