Mahakala
mahākālaShiva as Great Time, the power that devours all things and is also their measure.
Where this term appears
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
At Saurashtra is Somanatha, and at Shrishaila is Mallikarjuna; at Ujjayini is Mahakala, at Omkara is Amaleshvara.
- The Great Night Treatise
The festival year does not begin in forgetfulness of what time is, of Mahakala , Great Time, the devourer named in the first chapter.
- The Monsoon and the Midnight Birth Treatise
After the cosmic scale of the first volume, Mahakala and the wheel of ages, the rains bring the sacred down to the size of a family, a wrist, a cradle.
- The Wheel of the Year Treatise
Shaivism makes the same identification under a different name. Shiva is worshipped as Mahakala , Great Time.
- The Year as a Teacher Treatise
…radition celebrates inside the knowledge of what time is, in front of Mahakala , Great Time, the devourer that Arnold's translation of the Gita named, "Time who brings all to doom." The whole year has been exac…
- Kali: The Black Mother of Time Treatise
Her consort is Mahakala , Great Time, a name of Shiva; she is Mahakali .
- Kin and cousins Treatise
There is Mahakala , great time, the devouring darkness in which all things end and Shiva as the lord of that dissolution.
- The name on everybody's lips Treatise
It is a list of names: Ādinātha, Anādi, Kāla, Atikālaka, Karāla, Vikarāla, Mahākāla, Kālabhairavanātha, Baṭuka, Bhūtanātha, Vīranātha, and Śrīkaṇṭha reckoned the twelfth.