Millions of devotees across India are celebrating the Shivaratri festival that honors the Hindu god Shiva, one of the main deities of Hinduism. The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by ...
India’s best-selling author Amish Tripathi has been working on documentaries for some time now and his latest outing is Discovery India’s Legends of Shiva With Amish. The mythological figure of Hindu ...
In this photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh, smoke rises from burning incense as a devotee offers prayers to Hindu god Shiva at a temple, on the occasion of Shrawan Somvar in Lucknow, India. Hindus consider ...
(This is the second in a series. Here’s the previous episode.) Hindu worship has so many variants that it seems endlessly confusing to many outside the faith. Scholars attempt to classify, but each ...
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Why Shiva is known as the destroyer of worlds
Among the most powerful and revered deities in Hindu tradition is Shiva, a god associated with destruction, transformation, meditation, and renewal. While often called the Destroyer, Shiva's role ...
The love god Kamadeva prepares to shoot Shiva with a love dart. British Museum/Wikimedia Commons With the coming of Valentine’s Day, images of a chubby Cupid aiming his arrows of love at unwary humans ...
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