Virabhadra
वीरभद्र vīrabhadraA fierce gana born from Shiva's wrath after the death of Sati, who leads the host to destroy the sacrifice of Daksha and behead him. Virabhadra is the divine retinue as the instrument of Shiva's terrible justice.
Where this term appears
- Who is Shiva? Deities
He looses a terrible being, Vīrabhadra, who destroys the sacrifice.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
And the middle, the tamas one, holds the siddhāntatantras : the Vijaya , the Niśvāsa , the Svāyambhuva , the Vātula , the Vīrabhadra , the Raurava , the Makuṭa , the Vīreśa .
- What are the Shakti Peethas? Temples
In the Shiva Purana he creates the terrible figure Virabhadra , who tears Daksha's sacrifice apart.
- The Lord of the Hosts Treatise
… turns to wrath, and from that wrath he tears a being into existence: Vīrabhadra , a gaṇa of terrifying power, who leads the host to shatter Dakṣa's sacrifice, scatter the gods, and behead Dakṣa himself.
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
…and an accountant, six brahmin servants with two of them cooking, ten Virabhadras as village guards, twenty Viramushtis, ten artisans under a master craftsman, ten dancing girls, eight players of musical instru…