The Story Of Lord Shiva’s Marriage With Parvati

widow burnt herself in the cremation fire lit to cremate her husband’s body. In this case, the widow rode atop the funeral pile ...

He is one of the seven celestial sages known as “Sapta-rishis”. He is also stated elsewhere as being the son of Indra (the king ...

kicked the Lord on his chest. Lord Vishnu woke up from his sleep, and instead of becoming angry at Bhrigu asked for his forgiven ...

According to Kedaar Khand, Canto 3, angry Shiva tore at the lock of hairs on his head and uprooted some of its strands. Then he ...

The remaining gods, sages and others were obviously so terrified that they made good their escape before Beerbhadra could turn h ...

It is for this reason that she was re-born in the household of the king (or the patron deity) of the snow-covered mountains (kno ...

Sati had had enough of it when she was born as the daughter of Daksha Prajapati. So she wanted peace in her new birth, and there ...

sadā sumana phala sahita saba druma nava nānā jāti. pragaṭīṁ sundara saila para mani ākara bahu bhām̐ti. 65. In those mountains ...

feeling of contentedness, happiness, joy and delight permeated in the kingdom of the mountains when Uma was born there. Refer al ...

By reading verse nos. 9-10 of Parvati Mangal, a book dedicated to the marriage of Shiva and Parvati written by Goswami Tulsidas, ...

trikālagya sarbagya tumha gati sarbatra tumhāri. kahahu sutā kē dōṣa guna munibara hṛdayam̐ bicāri. 66. The king said to sage Na ...

Himwaan was also well aware of the unconventional life-style of Shiva, and the fact that Shiva lived like a hermit, was an ascet ...

(^2) This path is compared to the edge of a sword as it is very difficult to observe its strict principles. But if a woman succe ...

[Note—We have read in verse no. 1 that preceded this Doha no. 67 that Narad’s words were ‘significant and cloaked in mystery’. S ...

Whereas Uma’s parents were shaken by it—because it meant that Uma’s husband would be someone who was very unsuitable for a marri ...

hō'i na mṛṣā dēvariṣi bhāṣā. umā sō bacanu hṛdayam̐ dhari rākhā. 4. upajē'u siva pada kamala sanēhū. milana kaṭhina mana bhā san ...

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he has cleverly skipped the names of ‘Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu’ from this blanket immunity. The reason is that these two are s ...

honoured by the title of ‘Maha-Deva’ which means a ‘Great God’, an epithet that no other god is honoured with, not even the crea ...

that the water of the river Ganges has been made unclean or unholy, no one says that the sanctity of Ganges has been eroded by t ...