pati
पति pati'The Lord': Shiva as the free and perfect reality in the Shaiva Siddhanta triad of pati, pashu and pasha.
Where this term appears
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
Pati, pashu, and pasha The why , where it survives, rests on three words.
- What is Shaivism? Lineages
Bhandarkar in his 1913 survey of the sects, works the metaphor hard. The god is pati , the master.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Across most of them runs a shared vocabulary, pati–paśu–pāśa , the Lord, the bound soul, and the bond.
- The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: the forest of Yajnavalkya Treatise
…, and "made this his Self to fall in two," and from the falling arose pati and patni , husband and wife (1.4.3).