Puranas

notably in Patanjali’s “Great Commentary” and with Puranas, ancient Hindu texts rhapsodizing various deities. It is with Puranic literature and texts in the Gupta Dynasty (c. 320 - 500 CE) that Saivism began to spread rapidly. The Saiva Puranas contained the usual puranic subjects as well as exclusive Saiva elements, and it is with those that we see Saivism develop as a major strain of Hinduism.Apart from material on the worshipping of Shiva, Puranas such as the Linga also withhold information asceticism

Shiva destroyed it. These three gods comprise the Hindu trinity (the trimurti) and are considered to be the leading gods of the religion, especially Brahma, who is the oldest of all the gods. This point is questionable though as the Visnu Purana talks of Brahma emerging from Vishnu's navel to maintain the world after Vishnu has created it and then he returns to the navel after Shiva has destroyed it. If this is the case then Vishnu's position as a god is elevated from merely

Vishnu Purana is one of the eighteen books within the Hindu scripture, Mahapuranas. Inside of its covers are traditional Vedic stories that help encompass Hindu ideals. In the Vishnu Purana, the stories imply that even in a womb, a child has a jiva. Along with a soul, a child is also fully conscious and responsive. In the Patanjali Yoga Sutras it states, “having no ill feeling for any living being, in all manners possible and for all times is called ahimsa, and it should be the desired goal of

The three functions of the cosmos ---creation, preservation and destruction, are personified in Brahma, the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer or transformer. The Bhagawata Purana, one of India’s revered ancient texts, explains that the greatest benefit can be had from Vishnu, called the ‘All-Pervading One’ or ‘One who is present everywhere.’ In Vaishnavite tradition, Vishnu is the Supreme God, worshipped either directly or in one of his ten avatars, principally --- Rama, Krishna

idea of consent is simple, it is to give permission for an event or act to happen. Having been bombarded with talks of consent these past couple weeks there is no surprise it came to my mind after reading these stories. In the Excerpt from the Shiva Purana, the love god Kandarpa, intentionally shoots his love arrow at the unwilling Shiva. Shiva was able to resist the arrows magic but if he had not he would have been subjected to nonconsensual acts. Furthermore, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Aphrodite

study of Joseph Campbell classifies these myths as mystical, cosmological, sociological, and the physiological. The Great Shiva Purana genre, which focuses

Contribution of Sankardeva: An illustration from Educational point of view Parag Rajkhowa Asstt. Professor, Department of Education Sibsagar College, Joysagar. “What Sankardeva alone was able to do now a day’s whole army of the English knowing cannot do?”

Following my perusal of the excerpt from the Shiva Purana, I distinguished a personal correspondence to the text in the relation to love. Although within this excerpt the relation to love is romantic, my own connection is love through a friendship. Demonstrated in the work, Parvati is filled with wrath and defends Shiva as the brahmana claims Shiva is undoubtedly a “stupid fellow” and continues to discredit his name. Throughout high school I often was called to the centre of cyberbullying affairs

Essay 2 Final: Devotion to God I. Introduction The female saint, Mirabai, expressed her devotion to the deity Krishna through songs of love and longing. Mirabai’s song, Without Krishna I Cannot Sleep, conveys this desire to be united with the Lord Krishna. A fifteenth-century princess of Rajasthan, Mirabai entered into an advantageous marriage at a young age (Fisher 82). When her husband died, her in-laws made their wishes clear that she was to sacrifice herself and throw herself onto his funeral

There are two different types of books. There is the Shruti text which is considered by many Hindus important. Many Hindus don’t understand Shruti text. Smriti helps explain Shruti often through stories. The Vedas and Upanishads are Shruti. The Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Bhagavad Gita are Smriti text. THE FOUR VEDAS AND UPANISHADS The Vedas