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ELEMENTS
OF
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY
BY
T.
A.^GOPINATHA RAO.
M.A.
Vol.
II Part
I.
::
1916
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To
MAHARAJA OF TRAVANCORE,
Member
of the
By
HIS HIGHNESSS HUMBLE SERVANT
THE AUTHOR.
PEEFACE.
In
bringing
Elements
out
of
earnestly
Hindu
trusts that
Volume
Second
the
Iconography,
will
it
the
the
of
author
first
which he begs
dering his
to
the
Though the
make
abstruse
pains have of
and interesting
as informing
of
No
heart-felt thanks.
case
as is possible in the
subject
Iconography.
of
illustrations
first,
To
of
not so
and a word
may
the
for the
main
full
and
of explana-
the liberal
first
to
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
occasion and he has, in consequence, not been able
embody
to
as
many illustrations
had intended
as he
parts
different
of
sculpture of
varied
But
country.
this
the
of the trouble
in the prepara-
to
and observances
Saiva
which
of
the
all
The
ftat have
nature
amined
Lihga
of
critically
gathered from
died
Itihasas,
sculpture of
all
and
of the
of certain
a trace.
has
light
original
of
important
been
sources
treatises,
has
public
out without
and
some
worship
in the
such
the peculiari-
of
general
other cults
few points
In the Introduction
sects
of a
extexts
as
the
Puranas
to the
extant
PREFACE.
the author ventures to claim to be, an impartial
conclusion arrived
several matters,
new even
with
which
In the body
will
to the informed
to cite
at.
the book,
of
be seen to be quite
Brahma
ofi
known why
it is
it
doubtful
rid
of
His
sin.
of the
if it is
of
of the
commentaries thereon
to elaborate
and
treat fully
many
The
reader
will, it
is
obscure hitherto.
Law
be too thankful
Printing
House
to
the
for
the
in
of
the books
II
The
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
author cannot also omit to express his sense of
Anandakumaraswami,
gratitude to Dr. A. K.
D. Sc,
to
him
for the
M.A.,
on the
He
has
hurst, Stoney,
Kay and
Messrs. Long-
gracious
these gentlemen,
to
thanks.
was not
here,
work throughout so as to
ensure the presentation of an absolutely correct
vise the printing of the
text
printers
themselves.
trouble
ungrudgingly
In
spite
of
the
care and
in.
Though such
of
PEEPAOE.
them
in the errata
list,
it
likely
is
Madras,
THE AUTHOE.
January 1916.
XI
CONTENTS.
Pages.
Preface
vii
A General Introduction on
I.
II.
Saivaism,
xi
171
73102
LiNGAS
lingodbhavamurti,
chandra
Eaudra-Pa^upatamurti
III.
103126
SUKHASANAMURTI, UMASAEITAMURTI
Samharamurtis :
127-141
143202
Kamantakamurtji
147149
Gajasura-samharamnrM
149156
(iii)
Kalarimurtii
156164
(iv)
Tripurantakamurti
164171
Sarabbesamurti
171174
(i)
(ii)
(v)
(vi)
Brabma-sirasohhedakam ur ti =
174182
Bhairava
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
(a)
Bhairava
(6)
Vatuka-Bhairava
(c)
Svamakarsbaiia Bhairava
(d)
Sixty-four Bhairavaa
177
177179
179
180182
Jalandhara-vadha-miirti
183188
188-191
Mallari-Sivamurti
191192
Andbakasuravadhamiirti
192194
Virabhadramurti
Xlll
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
Pages.
CONTENTS.
Pages.
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
Mahesamurti
...
...
379386
Skadala Eudras
...
...
386892
Vidyeavaras...
...
...
392403
Murtyashtaka
...
...
403407
(vii)
Mahatmyas
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
SUBRAHMAHYA
...
407-411
...
...
413451
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
453460
461469
471481
483492
493498
499512
513538
539545
547570
550553
...
554
(iii)
Sadhyas
...
...
...
558559
(iv)
Asuras
...
...
...
559561
561
NandikI^vaea
Chandb^vaea ...
Bhaktas
...
Abya
...
KSHETRAPALA ...
Bbahma
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
A^viNiDBVATAS
...
...
Demi-gods
...
...
...
...
DiKPALAKAS
Vasus
(i)
(ii)
(v)
(yi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
558
562
Apsaraaas
...
...
...
Pisaehas
...
...
...
Vetalas
...
...
...
562
Pitris
...
...
...
562564
Rishis
...
...
...
(x)
Gandharvas
...
...
(xi)
Marut-ganas
...
...
Appendix
Index
...
562
564567
568569
A.
...
...
...
B.
...
...
...
569570
571578
1-279
...
...
...
137
...
XV
LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS.
PLATE
I
TO FACE PAQB
Three
Bhita Linga
(A.S.U.P.)
65
...
side
of
of
Gudimallam Linga
Details of ornaments in the
IV
Fig.
1,
IV Fig.
IVFig.
IV
Fig.
IV Fig.
66
The head-gear
of the
Apasmara67
...
67
Apasmara-purusha.
67
7,
VFig.
1,
...
2,
Fig.
IV
66
Gudimallam Sculpture.
purusha
IV Fig.
...
of
Fig. 2,
Do.
of the
67
67
67
67
69
...
of the
Fig. 3,
The kamandalu
in the
same
69
69
...
of
zvii
III
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
TO PACE PAGE
PLATE
V Fig.
VI
The
4,
...
Adhya, Anadhya,
Sarvasama lingas
VIIFig.
VII Fig.
VIIFig.
2,
VIII Fig.
1,
1,
3,
hand
in the right
Suradhya and
IX Fig.
IX Fig,
XFig,
X Fig.
XFig,
...
93
...
95
...
95
95
...
Tiruvorri-
linga,
yut
VIII Fig.
...
Do.
96
...
96
2,
Sahaara linga
1,
...
97
...
97
...
2,
3,
Dhara-linga, Tiruvorriyur
...
...
98
98
98
98
...
101
...
109
2,
1,
...
Mukhalinga, (Cuddappah
XII Bhadra-Pitha, Vajra-Padma, SrikaraPltha, Pitha-Padma
XIII Lingodbhavamiirti, Kailasanathasvamin
XI
Joti
District)
...
temple, Conjeevaram
XIV Fig,
69
1,
Do.
...
Dasavatara
Cave,
Ellora,
...
XIV Fig.
XV Fig.
1,
Kevala-Ohandrasekharamurti,
XV Fig.
2,
Uma-sahita-Gbandrasekhara-
2,
Ambar-Magalam.
Do.
Tiruppalatturai (A.S.M,)...
miirti,
Agaram Settur
XVI Kevala-Chandrasekharamiirti,
...
Onakkiar,
110
110
121
121
122
XVIII
XVIII
Fig. 1,
Fig,
2,
Do.
Madeour.
...
122
...
123
Alingana-Chandrasekharamurti,
Mayuranathasvamin
Mayavaram
xvni
(A.S.M.)
temple,
...
123
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATE
TO FACE PAGE
XIXPig.
Alingana-Ohandrasekharamurtii,
1,
Pat^Isvaram, (A.S.M.)
XIX Kg.
XIX Fig.
Do.
2,
3.
XX
XXI Fig.
1,
MarudantanallurCA.S.M.).
124
124
Do.
K5vilur
(A.S.M.)
124
Do.
Angur
(A.S.M.)...
124
...
Uma-sahita-Sukhasanamiirti,
Madeour
XXI Fig.
2,
Fig.
1,
XXIIFig.
2,
XXII
Do.
Agaram-Setfciir
...
133
...
133
134
Somaskandamurti, Madeour
...
Do.
NeUore (Mr. M.K.
Eangasami Ayyangar) ...
XXIII Uma-mahesvaramiirti, Bagali (A.S.M.)...
XXIV
Do.
Aihole (A.S.Bo.)
...
XXV
XXVI Fig.
XXVI Fig.
Do.
1,
Do.
2,
Do.
XXVII
Do.
Do.
XXVIII
136
137
BUora
EUora
EUora
139
140
141
...
...
...
...
162
Do.
Valuviir (A.S.M).
...
154
1,
Do.
Darasuram (A.S.M).
155
2,
Do.
Tiruohchengattangudi.
XXXIII Gajasara-sarhharamiirfci,
...
1,
155
Hoysalesvara
temple, Halebidu
XXXIV Kalarimurti,
XXXVFig.
137
Amritapura
(A.S.My.)
XXXIIFig.
XXXIIFig.
135
135
Trivandram (T.S.A).
Haveri (A.S.Bo.) ...
Ajmera
Do.
...
XXIX
Do.
XXXGajasura-sarhharamurti,
XXXI
134
...
156
...
(A.S.M.)
161
162
162
Tiruohohengattangudi.
163
Pattisvaram
(Mr.
R.
F.
Stoney's
CoUeotion)
XXXVII Tripurantakamurt/i,
Dasavatara
BUora
xiz
...
163
Gave,
...
170
HINDU ICONOGEAPHT.
PLATE
TO FACE PASB
XXXIX
Do.
temple, Conieevaram.
XL
XLII
Madura
Do.
XLI Bhairava,
Fig.
178
(A.S.M.)
Museum,
Indian
XLIIFig.
XLII Fig.
2,
Do.
3,
Do.
Madras Museum
179
179
Bombay
XLIII
171
171
Pattlsvaram
Bhairava,
1,
171
Kailasanathasvamin
179
Ellora
XLIV Fig.
1,
Virabhadramiarti,
Madras
Museum.
XLIV Fig.
2,
XLV Fig.
1,
187
Virabhadramurti, Tenkasi
187
Angur (A.S.M.)
XLV Fig.
188
Andhakasuravadhamurti, Dasa-
2,
188
Fig.
1,
Aghoramiirti,
192
193
Pattisvaram
(A.S.MO
XLVIII
Fig. 2,
Aghoramiirti,
200
Tirukkalukkun-
ram.
200
XLIX Fig.
1,
Chandesanugrahamurti,
XLIX Fig.
2,
Chandesanugrahamurti,
Gan-
gaikondasolapuram, (A.S.M.)
L Fig.
L Fig.
203
Kaila-
208
1,
Charidesanugrahamiirti, Madura.
211
2,
OhaQdeaanugrabamiirti, Suohlo-
dram
...
911
LIST 01 ILLUSTRATIONS.
TO PACK PAGE
KiATB
LI
Vishovanugrahamurti,
Fig. 1,
Conjee
varam
LIKg.
2,
Do.
Kg.
1,
Kiratamurti,
LII
Madura
Fig.
2,
..
210
Pasupatastra-danamurti,
..
Bavartanugrahamurlii,
..
218
Do.
219
219
Ellora
LV
Belur
Do.
LVI
Museum
Nataraja, Madras
LVII
LVIIIFig.
LVIII Fig.
1,
2,
Do.
Kottappadi
Do.
Do.
Eamesvaram
(Ivory)
252
252
252
(A.S.M.)
Trivandram
252
(T.S.A.)
LIX
Do.
LX
Do.
LXINriUamdrti,
216
Dasavatara Cave
Ellora
LIV
216
Sri
sailam (A.S.M.)
LIII
210
Tiruchohengattan
gudi
LII
PafcMsvaram (A.S.M-)..
Tenkasi
Tiruohohengattangudi
LXII
LXIII
253
255
257
259
2C2
Fig. 1, Lalafca-tilaka
Fig. 2,
264
264
Fig. 1,
265
Fig. 2,
265
(A.S.M.)
LXVI Fig.
1,
LXVI Fig.
2,:
Ohatura-danoe, Badami
Do.
Tiruvarangujam
Do.
Nallur (A.S.M.
(A.S.M.)
LXVII
LXVIII
LXIX
267
Tala8kmipfa6t|iiia danoa,
Do.
Conjeevaram
..
..
Ofaangannor..
XXI
267
267
268
268
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
TO FAOB PAGE
PLATE
LXX- -Nrittamurti,
Conjeevaram
Deogarh
LXXI- -Jnana-Dakshina-murti,
(A.S.
Bo.)
LXXII- -Fig.
LXXII- -Fig.
LXXIIILXXIV- -Fig.
LXXIV- -Fig.
LXXV-
1,
Do.
2,
Do.
Aviir (A.S.M.)
Do.
Tiruvorriyiir...
1,
Do.
2,
Do.
Suchfndram ...
Eaveripakkam.
-Fig. 1,
Do.
Tiruvengavasal
(A.S.M.)
LXXV Fig.
LXXVILXXVIILXXVIII-
LXXIX-
LXXX-
...
2,
Yoga-Dakshinamiarti, Tiruvorriyiir
...
Conjeevaram
Do.
Conjeevaram
Dakshinamurti, Nanjangddu (A.S.My).
Do.
Madras
Yinadhara-DakshiQamiirti,
Museum
LXXXILXXXIILXXXIIILXXXIV-
LXXXVLXXXV-
Vadarangam
Do.
(A.S.M.)...
...
Tenkasi (A.S.M.)
...
...
Fig.
1,
Suohindram
Do.
Kumbhakoriam
Fig.
2,
Do.
Kankalamiiriji,
Tiruchchengafcfcan-
gudi
LXXXVI Fig.
Bhikshatanamiirti,
Conjee-
varam
LXXXVI Fig.
Tiruohchengattangudi
Kumbhakonam
Tiruvenkadu (A.S.M.)
Valuvur (A.S.M.) ...
Pandananalliar
M.)
ii,
Elephanta
Triohinopoly
Ellora
(A.S.
LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONB.
FLATS
XCII
10 FAOE PAGE
Kg.
2,
...
XOIII
Do. Taramangalam (A.S.M.)
XOIV Arddhanarisvaramurti, Badami
...
XGV Kg.
XCV Fig.
Kumbhakoriam ...
Mahabalipuram ...
Madras Museum...
Do.
Do.
1,
2,
XCVI Pig.
XOVI Fig.
2,
Do.
Do.
XCVIFig.
3,
Do.
1,
330
...
330
...
...
330
330
331
334
336
344
...
...
...
Kalyariasundaramurti, Tiruvorriyur
Do.
328
gudi
Poona (A.S.Bo.)
Do.
01
Oil
327
328
Tiruehohengattan-
XCVII
Do.
Oonieevaram
XCVIII
Do.
Madura
XOIX Haryarddhamiirti, Badami
319
320
Eatanpiir
Dfc.)
...
...
(Bilaspur
(A.S.Bo.)...
OIII
Do.
Elephanta
OIV
Do.
Eilora
345
OV
Do.
Ellora
...
346
347
347
OVI
Do.
Madura
...
351
OVII
Do.
Madura
...
351
OVIII
Vrishavahanamuriii,
(A. S. Bo.)
...
Vedarariyam
...
354
355
355
(A.S.M.)
CIX
CX
Do.
Do.
CXI
CXIIFig.
OXII Fig.
CXIII
1.
Do.
Halebidu
...
2,
Do.
Madura
...
Fig. 1, Sadaaivamiirlii,
2,
CXIV Fig.
1,
Do.
Mr.
K.
Collection
Mahesamiirti,
Gokak
(A. S. Bo.)
XXlll
355
355
Mr. Beardsell'a
Collection
CXIIIFig.
355
...
372
Kay's
...
372
Falls
...
382
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
PLATE
TO FAOB PAQB
CXIV Fig.
2,
Mahasadalivamurfci,
Vaittis-
OXV
...
382
karma)
...
CXVIMahesamurti, Kavaripakkam
...
CXVII
Do.
Elephanta
...
CXVIII
Chitorgarh
Do.
...
CXIX Fig. 1, Ekapadamiirti, Jambukesvaram
OXIX Fig.
2,
OXX Fig.
1,
Siva
as
(A.S.M.)
...
sow suckling
young ones.
its
...
372
380
382
385
410
410
Parvati doingi
L,
penance
,
IPatfclsvaram
_.^_
OXX
Fig. .
2, Parvati
_,.
.,
,;;.,,
...
409
444
444
(A.S.M.)
embracing
Siva.
OXXI Fig.
1,
OXXIII
Do.
CXXIV
CXXV
Tiruvorriyur
...
Do.
Ellora
...
Do.
and
Kumbakoriam
444
445
445
...
446
447
447
447
...
447
...
...
448
448
...
448
Valli,
Tarakari-Subrahmanya, Aihole
CXXIXDevasena-Kalyal^asundaramiirti,
Tirupparankunram
xxiv
LIST OE ILLUSTEATIONS.
TO PACE PAGE
PIiATB
CXXX Dvarapalaka
Subrahmariya
the
of
...
CXXXI Adhikara-Nandin,
CXXXII
(A.S.M.)
OXXXIII Fig.
CXXXIIIKg.
1,
...
Chandesvara, Tirruvorriyur
460
468
Marudantanaimr
Do.
2,
...
...
468
Madras Museum.
Siruttorida Nayanar and others, Tiru-
480
(A.S.M.)
CXXXV
450
460
ohchengattangudi (A.S.M.)
CXXXVI Alvars,
CXXXVII Fig.
1,
Tadikkombu (A.S.M.)
nabhapuram
...
godu (A.S.M.)
CXLFig.
1,
(.Visvakarma)
480
Do. Tirupparaiyaru
480
...
480
490
...
490
...
Sasta, Sastankottai
Gajariidha
480
Padmanabha.
CXXXVIII Manikkavaohakar
2,
480
| Tiruehchen-
puram
1,
475
...
Tirujnanasambandha, Padma-
CXXXVIIFig. 2, Mapikkavaehakar
CXXXVII Fig.3, Apparsvamigal
CXXXVII Fig. 4, Sundaramurti,
CXXXIX Fig.
CXXXIXFig-
...
Valuvur
Sasta,
"
...
491
Tiruppalatturai (A.S.M.).
491
498
498
(A.S.M.)
CXL Fig.
2. Sasta,
...
CXLII
OXLIIIFig.
CXLIIIFig.
OXLIV
1,
2,
Brahma, Tiruvorriyur
Do. Madras Museum
Do,
...
...
...
505
506
...
508
...
508
509
509
...
...
...
XXV
IV
504
505
HINDU ICONOGBAPHY,
TO FACE PAGE
PLATE
CXLIX-
Do.
509
509
520
520
520
524
Tiruvadi (A.S.M.)
(A.S.M.)
Do.
Do.
(Travancore)
CLIII- -^'S-l'^^"'^}
Chidambaram (A.S.M, )
CLIII- Fig. 2, Agni
CLIV- Kg. 1, Kubera, Dohad (A.S.Bo.)
CLIV-
CLVCLV-
Fig. 2, Nirruti,
Fig. 1,
Fig. 2,
CLVI- Gate
Ahobilam (A.S.M.)
Gangs
|
Yamuna)
of
j^^
Fig.
1,
Fig. 2,
Fig.
1,
Siva,
531
...
of
OLIX- Figure
528
628
531
(A.S.Bo.)
District (A.S.Bo.)
CLVIICLVIICLVIII-
524
of
561
561
Srinivasanallur
Nataraja
showing
XXVI
557
557
the
...
573
WORKS CONSULTED
OTHER THAN THOSE MENTIONED
IN THE FIRST VOLUME.
LIST OF IMPORTANT
Atiharvasirasopanishad.
Bharafca-natya-sastira.
Brahma-mimamsa-lastra.
Dakahitiainurtyapanishad
Dbarmasutras of Apastamba
commentary.
Halasya-mabatmya.
Harivamsa.
with
Jlriioddhara-dasakam.
Eoyil-puraiiam (Tamil).
Kurma-purana.
Euvalayanaada.
Mallari-mahatmya.
Malati-madhava.
Manu-dharma-sastra.
Mayamata.
Nafcyaveda-vivriti.
Poriyapurariam (Tamil).
Prabodhacbandroday am
Prastbanabbeda.
Pratyabbijnasiitras.
Sankara-vijaya (Anantanandagin's).
Sarabbopanisbad.
Sarvadarsana-sangraba.
Satarudriya.
Sivajnanasiddhiyar (Tamil).
Siva-linga- prafcisbtha- vidbi.
Siva-tatva-ratnakara.
Sata-sambita.
Tiruvarulpayan (Tamil).
Tiruvacbakam (Tamil),
Yalodharakavyam
xxvii
HaradaUa'a
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Bead
86
20
Sfchavara lingas
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fiowhieh
to which.
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are sculptured
Sthavara lingas
accordance
in
againsli
with
XIV
XIV.
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Eig
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119
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firsk
comes
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carry on
carry an
a utpala flower
an utpala flower
with
ment
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20
145
or a pacific,
148
of
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150
catching hold of
..
catching hold
or as a pacific,
Siva
of Kama by Siva,
and being in the
company
pany
said to
creeper
ornament,
have told
..
said to
have men-
tioned
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piece of sculpture,..
piece of sculpture,
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12
says, to Tirukka-..
says, Tirukkadaviir
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163
164
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PI.
XXX,
davur
..
with hands
..
they
and
desired
that
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165
10
with a half
stronger
of
than
all..
other
166
16
who
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10
upon Apasmara-..
purusha
destroyd
stronger
of
than
all
the other
who
destroyed
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
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INTEODUCTION.
/^NE
once of several
sects, of
It consisted
Some
them had
of
some
Vedas
or as opposed to
of
them
life,
sect to sect.
examine
in
again,
of worship, while
The
rites.
It will
some
detail
the history,
the main
the following
of
interest.
In the
middle
his
of
dhrama
forest of
(hermitage),
Dandaka, situated
in the
round which, he
had
HINDU IGONOGBAPHY.
abundant food-giving plants and
raged
number
years' famine
twelve
of risliis
received with
and
for food
to
start
famous
several
and were
shelter,
all
by Gautama.
hospitality
which a
during
Gautama
to that of
There once
trees.
out on
tirtlias ;
fertile,
the rishis
pilgrimage to
one of the
risTiis
the
named
in his
extreme
maya an
enfeebled, old
abode
not
risliis
it
fell
attributed to
of
know
down and
died.
The
Gautama, the
sin of
any longer
in the
to stay
it
Advising him to
his
Gautama
to Siva a
jaiamandala a
INTEODUCTION.
Ganga which he
The water of this
flow as
the
river
the
risTiis
On
their
went
fallen rishis
to grant
to
The
rites at least.
God.
of
Thereupon, the
rishis
a few Vedic
were decreed
liquors
and
flesh,
the sweat-
and
to
these he
gave the
Pasupata Sdstra.
From
clear,
of the
first
cults.
may
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The Atharoa-
siras
Pasupata
rite
'Agni
is
thus
rite
Vayu
ashes,
is
ashes, water
is
is
is
ashes.'
man
This
for the
removal
is
the Pasupata
animal bonds."
of the
rite,
Again the
From
the
summary
of the
philosophy of a
would be
it
Let us take
History of the
Agamanta
the
works
it is
Saivas.
on the banks
kali situated
of
Amarddaka
matjia,
surrounding
Mantrakalesvara, that
to the Granges
down
in
his
temple
of
back to his
the
capital,
whom
he,
on his way
settle
INTRODUCTION.
the Saivas immigrated into
was given
large
to
number
Tondaimandala
the
of original
its
branches
mention
is
made
For instance,
over India.
all
of this in the
Siddhantasaravali
as also in a
number
of inscriptions.
The members
great authors
over
the
of
some
of these
mathas were
sovereigns of vaisious
countries.
The
noddhara-daaJcam
of
Nigamajnanadeva, son
of
will
SaivaBrahmana settlers
The first of these lived
later, for
lived
sometime
Tanjore,
is
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
and their
the
sishijas alone,
of these
Saivacharyas became
preceptors of
kings,
shall
be
Again, some
^i'
rajagurus or the
and appear
to
have wielded
sometimes
set aside
and acted on
their
own
For example,
authority.
Kulottuhgacholadeva III appointed two Saivacharyas for the service of the temple at Tirukkadavur,
but Svamidevar,
order and
the king's
gum,
(2)
AH
the
cancelled the
in
recognition
Agamas
declare
is
it
therefore
appears quite certain that Hajendracholadeva implanted in the south a large colony of Saiva Brah-
manas
of
Middle India.
S.I.I.
(2)
No. 40
1906
of the
p.
153.
Madras Epigraphist's
collection.
INTEODUCTION.
on many points.
From
the
Yasya-
statement,
of Siva as unconsciously as
Agamas were
the twenty-eight
and
personally
Mimam-
8aiva dlkshas or
The Agamantins
tions.
are
among
Amarasimha accordingly
initia-
atheists
Kumarila-
and we read
classing Devalas
who
are
among
Sudras.'^'
At any
rate,
worship,
the
that
very
(1)
is
therefore
Pancharatras.
It
At a
of
Amarakosa, Ka^da
7
II,
their history,
Sudravarga.
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
they probably adopted a few of the hdmas and the
viantras appropriate to
some others
the
in
This ex-
these anarya-
<i)
mark
off
Agamanta
religion.
borrowed the
the Yoga
schools.
Agamantins do
Unlike
not
shut
the
out
Vedantins
women,
the
Sudras,
They
and ceremonies.
to meditate
freely allow
who might,
give dikslidi to others among them.
is a naishthU:a (one who passes
grant dlksha to Sudras,
without
women
undergoing
the
in their
turn,
" If the
Sudra
into
sannyasa
intermediate
stage of
(l)
For an explanation
uo
of this
of a
sumnaary
of the
Saiva philoaophy see the beginning of the Chapter on Misoellaneoua Aspects of Siva (Xth).
INTRODUCTION.
with proper svaras
jnana.
If
he
is
all
a grihastha,
he
is
privileged to
made
times
to
identify
at
at later
Srikantha-Sivacharya
on
tenets
in
who
the Brahma-sutras
wrote
Bhashya
accordance with
in
exclaims,
the
na vayam
gamatvat,
any
difference
stage, that
is,
Sivagamas)
and
at a
at this
anthropomorphic aspects
of
day several
Siva,
of the
which might,
PanchaJcshara mantra.
receive
Siva
temples
who
the
always
con-
Brahmanas.
The
are
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
multiplication of images, both Saiva and Vaishnava,
is
deal of
Tantras.
in their
to have possessed
for
the description
attention to
The one
images
of
great peculiarity of
Saivas
is
their
all
rate.
the avaidik
dihsha.
In
per-
Saiva dlkslias.
mandalas
in their
detail.
They
(filled
he
who has
also invoke
and
or drawings, all of
works in great
for fire
fire
offerings.
They
family
and
life
is
For attaining
is
technically
of
Baku
is
has renounced
this state of
for
aeharyd
He who
Himself
The bestowal
known
of four
as
mind he
Sakti-pdtam.
for dlkslid is
The grace
kinds, instantaneous,
10
rapid,
INTEODUOTION.
and
slow
given
very
slow,
with the
differ
who
gets
Samaya
and
this
modes,
^akti
of
the
dlkshas
noted above, in
To him
received.
is
be
to
dlksha
samayadiksha
the
called
of
diksba.
In
should be given.
this,
the guru
own
the sishya,
blind-folded,
out,
sinners,
and
that
he might not
up the humhha or
Siva,
so
vessel
after a certain
which
in
number
is
the flowers in
invoked
light
upon
his hands.
as fejorupa or the
embodiment
of
own
right
hand
of enlightenment,
By
set
is
Hshya.
is
rounds are
of
is
it
on the head
of his
hand which
first
is
on the head,
The
disciple
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
shall receive his
on him on his
initiation,
on the top
fall
or
on any one
names according
the
Thus,
Sudra.
as the disciple
and gana
or a Kshatriya,
if
is
he
if
the flowers
etc.,
to be
Brahmana
is
aspects
added to
a Vaisya or a
is
on the
fall
side
Brahmana, Isanadeva
Isanagana
if
if
a Vaisya or a Sudra.
he
if
Kshatriya,
of
and
If the disciple is
Isadevasakti,
she
of the
or
is
Sudra
Isaganasakti
according
Brahmana, Kshatriya,
Those that have
caste.
known
To these
Samayis and
or,
as,
Vaisya
undergone
as
Eudrapada.
The
of
charyapada
the
of
Samaya-diksha reads
als
in
will attain
like a
all
an echo
ancient
appear to be a pretension.
of a
really
It is perhaps
Agamanta Saivaism,
that
it is
after all
soil.
an
INTEODUOTION.
whom
the
the
dlksha and
is
previous case.
In
to join the
sishya
and
made
is
similar to the
to contemplate
soul of the
SaJcti-garbJia,
mind on
in his
the
this
guru teaches
his
After
samaya-
disciple the
his
They
faith.
the
are
and the
gtiru,
of
Siva
doing pujd, to
on.
He who
would attain
known during
after death
life
and
vieshadlJ(sha
the Isvara-pada; he
is
These are
enjoined to observe the ceremonies and duties prescribed in the charya and the Jcriyapadas of the
agama,s.
Samayi
called the
duties of the
ds,samdrga.
life
of the
From
these
them
who
collect flowers
it
appears
and knit
Panddrams
13
etc., are to
is,
be
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY,
considered as Samayis or Tadars (Dasas), while
those that go by the distinct appellation of Pillais
or Pillaimars, as putrahas-
The
grace of
is
Sakti
comes instantaneously
Nirvana
called
body
material
strands
of string
sishya
mind
is
off
;
for
or rapidly
the
dlJcsha.
In this kind
in
whom
to the
is
few
purpose, a
suspended from
births
to take to
known
as
To check
strings
into
the
is
also
bits
fire.
become equal
to Siva in purity.
is
believed to have
Another formality
of the soul
which
dis-
purna-kd,matva
(filled
with
14
love)
anadi-jnana
INTEODUCTION.
(beginningless knowledge), apctrasakti (unbounded
There are
nishing power.
still
and
two
classes, the
ment
as sadhahas
and acharyas.
The sadhahas
powers,
anima,
with
beginning
so
well-known
entitled to
The above
classes,
described nirvdna-dihsha
respectively
known
as
is
of
two
Idhadhai-mini or
Those
brahma-randhra, whereas
oflf
the hair.
Idha-
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The Saivas may observe both the Vaidika and
the Saiva
duties, but
if
some
of
and
bhantiJii
naisJithiJci
may
dlhshas
even
The Agamas
parts, the
are
alv^ays
divided
four
into
initiated in the
that
is,
the persons
The
Lord
himself.
These
dlJcshds
detail, in
it
is
meant
common
com-
and
of other countries,
16
more
especially
INTRODUCTION.
with Freemasonry.
As the philosophy
branch of Saivaism
is
dealt with
it
this
of
elaborately
by
here.
The Pasupatas
According to Eamanuja-
Saivas.
^j^^p
charya
it
some
justification
for
ded in Saivaism.
Pati.
agachchamayams
or sects inclu-
little is
known. In
known
as the Lakulisa
is
later
who
himself.
fix
is
An
pata
sect. It is a
upon
baseless premises
him
to
incorrect
results.
Because
the
name
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
tradition asserts that he propagated his faith in
Kayarohana
in
Lakulisvara, the
by
his
wherefrom he drifted on
eventually settled
India,
down
and that he
Kayarohana
The
bearing the
name Lakulisvara
ed
two inscriptions
the
in
were two
distinct
two
individuals
referred
above
to
named
the conclusion
is
Northern
Pandita, mention-
in
A. D.
century
eleventh
at
to
of
believed to be
the
century, reviews
the
is
the eighth
Pasupata
Bhashya.
Says he,
"
maintain
The
Mahesvaras
pain
of
Lord Pasupati
{duhJchanta),
(Siva) to the
is,
(pasii,
{Jcarya)
and
{vidhi)
were taught
end
i.
e.,
of
cause
the
by the
breaking the
the souls).
Pasu-
cause."
In his masterly
systems
of
his
effect
viz,
{liarana),
end
(Saivas)
time,
treatise
on the
different
five
in
cate-
by the Lakulisa
INTRODUCTION.
Pa^upatas
same statement
The Pasupata
thanabheda.*
the
Madhusudana Saras-
kara at
or
least,
perhaps
AtharvaHrasopanishad.
as
sect
is
even
known by
older than
as
The authors
in his Pras-
old
^anthe
as
famous
of the
the praises of
the
of the
namesakes
of
first
The Kalamukhas
To substantiate
of
age of Lakulisa
this,
Eamanuja, but
we have seen
also that of
some
above.
authority
others.
The
Somasiddhanta and
Lakula
and
in
L&kula bad
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Kapalika and Kalamukha.
we
cases
we
that Somasiddhanta
of the
two
is
may
Kalamukha.
In
be inferred to
praising certain
same
be the
as
Kalamukha gums,
the Baligami
Kalamukhas were
in
clearly
with
identical
Lakulisa Pasupatas.*
of the
be quoted
may
Hfleg: ^tr^rWTl
xT
^^m ^
l^^s^ 5rnfKWI<ll^^iJ%5T:
\^
the following
of Siva,
^Wr^ft
"^ W
and
^I^^ IT^T'^:
f^t
^ft gojTt
c^r
^^
20
R[^^r
1,
&
10.
INTEODUGTION.
The
gather from
the
The end
sorts
moTcsha.
anatmalca
the
Of
moTisTia
and
absolute freedom
we
Pa^upatas as
Sarvadarsana-Sangraha, stated
from pain.
two
the satmaka
defined as the
is
The
possession of
called sdtmaJcamoJcsha.
smallest, the
Perception
even
of
all
The accomplishment
the
of every
sastras, the
Jnanasakti.
is
is
called
of every object,
own
desire,
is
known
These two
as Kriyasakti.
effect
is
JTi'^
mkm
iTfJRif^
M g^
ii
^^
ii
Director General of
21
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
the Pasupatas call
all
dependent objects as
effect
Jcdrya,
eternal,
of
harya because
The
Being who
is
it is
creation,
known
His
The Pasupatas
human
souls.
The category
with Pati,
called
may
Yoga
In the
first, it is
Jcarmas
control over
kinds
of
the senses.
molislia
By
Yogo, the
this
mentioned
above
could
two
be
obtained.
Vidlii or the
patas
is
Bathing
lying
rules of conduct
of
the Pasu-
their
down on
singing loudly
thrice
day
in
ashes,
making noise
god, dancing
ashes,
either according
INTEODUCTION.
any manner, curling the tongue and roaring
bulls,
like
repeating the
these strange
acts
names
of Siva
all
these
or daily observances.
But
are
forbidden
strictly
to
be
present.
pretending to be asleep
limbs
the
as
when
legs, or like a
making meaningless
enjoined upon the Pasupatas. To
noise
these are
remnants
"'It;
is
in
responsible for
Hindu
acts.*
thai; this
temples.
In the majority
of
obscene sculptures
of cases,
such sculpture
membrum
other and with his hands held in the anjali pose over his
head, and his head
down on
either side.
23
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The Saivagamas arrange the Saiva
sects in
Kaia-
SomasTddhan""''
The
*"^'
the
Lakulas.
the
and
Somasiddhantins
the
the
adharachaJcra,
worshipped by the
mentioned two
first
The
sects.
there
is
whose
clothiog
ia
to
alike.
all
represented as slipping
pudendum exposed.
man
It ia
The
down
more
could represent
of the
indecent
In almost
and
in all
could meet
attitudes
all
the later
additions to
with
ill-kept,
all
manner
reproduced on PI. 69 in
kumarasvami.
of
of
capering
his
Visvakarma
one such
its
philosophy.
24
is
by Dr. Ananda-
name
Fasupata
INTRODUCTION.
The Kapalikas.
an extremist sect
They have
says
" The
same
Sutras
reasons,
now
of
Ramanuja
that,
The adherents
view
four
to
the
for
Pasupati
has to be disregarded.
belong
Kala-
of the
sects
declare
doctrine
the
of Saivas.
and ceremonies
rites
an ancient
to be also
classes
the
also
this
of
Kapalas,
All of
them
life
for. at-
They
and the
They
Pasupati.
latter
cause to be
means
"
six
say,
'
end
of
like to be
man.
He who knows
the
The
called bhagasana,
reaches Nirvana.
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
the head-jewel, ashes, and the sacred thread
He whose
with
the
these
is
Kalamukhas teach
taining
all
body
marked
is
Similarly,
means
that the
ob-
of
desired
are
well
practices
such as using a skull as a drinking vessel, smearing oneself with ashes of the dead body, eating the
flesh of
up a
stick, setting
and using
platform for
liquor-jar
making
bracelet
it
made
etc.,
'
and the
skull,
all this is
well
like.
known from
They
Brahmana
rite a
ceremony
at
once
man becomes
We
learn a
the
men
smearing oneself
'
on the arm,
Rudraksha-seeds
of
as a
of
reach
{dikslia)
man becomes
at once
little
an ascetic."
bodhachandrodaya
character in that
introduces
drama who
"
in his
Pra-
Kapalika as a
describes himself in
INTBODUGTION.
consist
human
of
bones; I
my
my
in the ashes of
live
food in
human
eyes
world are
from God.
different
rites
of
diflerent,
after fasting
Brahmanas
our
terrific
men which
God
human
are
is
not
skulls
kept
are
offerings
parts
listen to our
and the
their flesh,
appease our
sacrificial fires
up with
different
Digambara
we drink
the ointment of
skulls.
are
up
mixed
by which we
victims covered
throats.
the mighty
on the lord
Vedas
went
glory
destroys
revealed in
is
the
as well
vijaya of
Bhavani,
of
as in
his deeds."
came for
Among them one
men
living there
him.
sect of Kapalikas
had the
wore sphatiha
theja^
(or
They
matted
heir).
Their
God
moon) and
is
Bhairava,
all
different aspects
namely
HINDU IGONOGEAPHY.
Unmatta Bhai-
Bhishma and
Kapala,
rava,
Samhara-Bhairava
Yama and
the Supreme
Being
taken
Chandra,
Indra,
respectively.
But another
subject of
Sankara
to wrangle with
black
his forehead
The whole
stuff.
hand a
in his left
He was
rava
He
jatas.
kauplna consisting
skull
He
Kalisa.
hair
and carried
skin
names
that
said
Living
class
this
with
one's
of
Kapalas
Parvati in heaven,
kas as moksha.
is
It
there
are
Bhavabhuti
Mddhaoa
literary
introduces
a Kapalika
his
who,
for
28
incorrigible.
this
world
by the Kapalithis
human
evidences
in
Sankara
certain that
as
also considered
is
moksha
their
wife happily in
bell.
Sambhu, Bhai-
of
head
of his
tiger's
of
and
of the
of
to
this
drama
sect
of
sacrifices,
effect.
Malatl-
having attained
INTRODUCTION.
mantra-siddhi, attempted to sacrifice Malati to his
god. Vadirajasuri in his Yahodharakdvya describes
two pretty
human
which
sacrifices for
little
trophe.
all
class
men
(pamaras).
that
the Saivas
Pasupatas,
Siva
smeared
a garland of bones
(?)
beads
the
fire
anklets
and that
all
these
From
sects
of
all
that
Saivas the
following
all
the
ghora
in
a wild
itself.
forms
conclusion about
of
;
The prototype
Saivaism
is
the
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
adorning himself with the skulls and bones of the
dead; or going about naked in
the
streets
of
drinking and
killing,
life
own
his
;
consort
wearing his
or per-
hair in
human
eating from
skulls
all
Vamacharas.
women
really
in this
mohsha
life
Their teachings
old.
when, as a result
flesh
and
of the
and
preaching of the
the Vaidikas
liquor,
some
practically
of its
members
congenial
to
their
tastes
might
of the
Saivaism.
This state
of
members
30
of
INTRODUOTION.
sects themselves.
our passed away, these degraded Brahmanas apparently set themselves to cleanse their faith of
its filth,
it
and
its
Vaidikas.
as
of the
in
evils
complained
of.
it,
The
Vaidikas at
and are
first
never paid
so
much
in
the image
as residing in
And when
the non-
as
identical
with
the
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
the linga and are even seen dancing
and making
The
orgies
and
which
phallic worship
was
lascivious acts
revels in
in all
was practised
countries in
in Greece,
revelries differed in
among
those in existence
sects.
The
initiation
no way from
and very
men
as
likely the
We
forms
of
have
till
Saivaism
now been
;
Newer
since then.
but
from
Two
mere.
who occupied
Kash-
Brahman
Brahmana
of
parents
but
refused
to
of
undergo the
to
INTEODUOTION.
destroy the caste
Basava taught
system.
the
system
of
to the
They were
veneration
Sahgha.
a Saiva
dies,
child-marriage
was
discountenanced
and
post-
among
permitted. The
general
rule
also
of
it is
like
the
yajhopavlta of the
during the
no caste
are
The Pratyabbijna
school had
its origin,
as
we
It appears that
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
five in
is
number;
of
composed by
is
The
of
basis of the
Somanandanatha.
believed to be
philosophy.
The
works.
foundation
sutras,
older
Laghu-Pratijabhijnavimarsani
the
in
its
Brihat-Pratyahhijna-vimarsani.
the inter-
From
and the
became prominent
it is
in the
called
is
followers
mesvara
of
is
of
this
school,
is
energy and of
But the
maya.
own
in
If
Paramatman
distinction between
man.
According to the
everywhere,
ment
Pratyabhijna.
one
latter
is
blissful light.
is
or
Para-
pervading
the embodi-
There
is
no
realises,
by the help
omniscience, omnipotence
of his
etc.,
guru, his
he recognises
INTRODUCTION.
Jivatman
itself is
Paramatman
of the
illustrated
as
The
of
with
husband
is
news
by an example.
of
identical
by means
versa,
But when
him and
till
husband, she
she
is
is
is
able to
unable to recognise
realise
in
him her
pranUyama
it is
like
held by Abhinavaguptacharya to
and
Its categories
it.
also easy
to be detailed
here.
of
the various
of the lihga
on both the
irikula
the Baudras
and wear on
it
the
liiiga
35
SIVA.
SIVA.
ONEMythologymost
of the
destruction
of
In the Bigveda,
among
the
Hindu
Trinity.
the Vajasaiieyi-samhita
White
and
Yajur-veda
Atharvana-vMa,
cefto^Rud^/a!^*^"
Hindu
interesting chapters in
is
the
of
the
in
the word
Siva,
of
who
Rudra.
is
It
praised in
presented in these
hymns
and
is
all
Eudra, (and
hymns
he
is
re-
as a malevolent deity
cattle
their
only
is
as
families
damaging
their
and
cattle,
and
enemies and
attacking
their
and
belongings.
Eudra
is
found in
The physical description of
a number of hymns in great detail. For instance,
in some places he is said to be tawny in colour
and
in others of
with a
and having
39
on his head.
He
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
carries in his
scribed, in
He
bolt.
fied
some hymns,
is,
as wielding
is
also said to
the thunder-
have given
earth), the
In the Atharvana-veda
that "
the sky,
the
filled
sphere "
in the
Andhaka
Rudra the
of the
birth,
Maruts
it is
stated,
Bhava
rules
de-
(the winds).
is
slayer
of
Mahadeva,
Ardhaka
(the
these
names
are also
all
the
It
might
who
is
call
him,
call
him, Pasu-
{aS.nta),
Agni
is
his gentlest
designation {antatma)."
Prom
it is
the descriptions of
who
40
is
SIVA.
had
atmofire
in
Agni
Tryambaka
By
or Three-mothered.
the heat- of
this natural
is
of
by sun's heat,
of the earth
hymns as
Maruts. The
at-
all
Rudra.
or
of
or
Agni who
phenomena
is
all
these
fearful
malevolent deity
The
the cause of
and Rudra
always
sufferings caused to
requiring
man and
propitiation.
beast by storms,
of
this
fearful
deity
appease
and to protect
41
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The
identity of
also appears
In nar-
to
Budra
in
the
Maliabharata.
rating the
stated
is
Svaha,
that
birth
it
Vana-parvan,
the
in
assumed on
of Agni,
the wife
Skanda,
of
six
her husband,
and
who had
retired
he could not
whom
The
seed
of
the form of
he had fallen in
in a pit
Uma
days by
six
Skanda).
that Rudra,
love.
for a
Again,
who was
dally-
he
asked to take
effect
was
dropped
it
in
and develope
From
but
its
burning
it
he
in the river
born therefrom.
it,
so great that
it
Agni was
let
is
that Rudra,
who was
From occupying
SIVA.
supreme
Puranic
deities in the
is
and he
1*7 O'^er
p^ani^period^^
period
In
his
terrific
attributes
he
the
is
of the gods
and
the destroyer
as
men,
of
of
he
the
is
through
it
sword
discus,
;
dwells
in
the
and pervades
heart
their desires
all
of
he
all
car-
he wears a girdle
composed
pents
he
the universe
of
and knows
creatures
ries
soul
of serpents
of serpents,
ear-ornaments
and an Yajnopavlta
of ser-
number
plays on a
of
musical instruments
he
leaps, gapes
speaks like a
sweet voice
and wives
of the rishis
he has erect
as also in
daughters
hair, looks
"Budra has
now
said to possess in
yana, that
is,
is
rites
fre-
he
is
He
is
Such
descrip-
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
regarding Siva, as also of the various images of this
For instance,
deity.
dancing in
the
name
of
Siva
an ecstacy;
he
as
is
then known
by
when he
Bhikshatana-murthi
concerned
fore
represented
is
and so
forth.
immediately
is
called the
We
are there-
with
various
the
The
birth of
Eudra
is
brdhmana
'
Birth of Budra
in the Brahma-
as
" Praiapati
who
is
identi-
nas.
Sun and
year,
(the beings of
whom
he
is
the
also
he consorted,
for
was
As soon
born.
father asked
no name
as
The
why he
He
wept.
replied he
had got
away the evil from him. Prajapati gave him the name Eudra.
Inasmuch as he
gave him the name, Agni became his form, for
Eudra is Agni he was Eudra because he wept
to take
{arodlt,
name
he
'.
who
Prajapati replied
obtained
from
The boy
'
said
the
am
me another
Prajapati
'
'.
Thus
names Eudra,
and
lasna
eight
names
14
which are
associated
SIVA.
respectively with the tattvas of agni, (the
eights forms of
This
is
chandramas
(the rain),
(the sun).
to Gayatri
forms.
This
'.
Men do
'
The same
for
story
it
into the
is
these
all
the birth
This story
The account
pertains
of
Since
the Gayatri
syllables,
the ninth.
is
jala
(the
fire),
of the birth of
of
Eudra, as
Saivagamas.
Eudra
as found in
is
almost
In the Puranas.
identical
At the beginning
Brahma was
meditating upon
and weeping
was weeping.
loudly.
Brahma
The boy
At once a boy
sitting
on his lap
asked him
why he
answered 'Give
me
name'.
Brahma
Eudra.
conferred upon
45
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
seven times more and obtained seven more names,
Mahadeva.
Another version
Kudra
of the birth of
is also
first
created by
Brahma
meditation, attained
became
free
for the
purpose
became absorbed
in
all
They
neglect-
Brahma.
Brahma
The body
sun.
of this
size.
as resplendent as the
was
it
terrific
disappeared.
of
and large
to
divide,
ed
itself
pacific
The male
and some
terrific
in
nature
in a similar
itself
in
many
Here
is
Ekadasa Eudras
Mythology.
46
and
Hindu
Eudra
follows:
When Madhu
demons, attempted to
is
as
kill
Brahma prayed
to
Vishnu
grew
fiercely
angry
of
Vishnu sprang forth a being named Sambhu, wielding a trident and possessing three eyes.
see,
as in the case of
many
Thus we
it
names
different
of Siva.
When
names given
to this
who
castles,
from
all
the gods
Kahadeva.
^^'"''
jatt'shfa,
called Eudra.
and
glorious,
He
is
he
termed
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
men
prosper in
their actions,
all
he bears the
is
known as
the churning
to the gods, took
but Parvati
withdrew from
it
should
him
kill
From
that
fair skin of
lustre,
which accounts
kantha.* Again
when Siva
* In
meanings
said in the
Aitareya-brdhmana, Eudca
{visha,
of the
whioh
word
also
means
is
in the
phenomenon
Brabmana
is
said to
poison).
have
Of the two
visha,
made
a blue
the
drunk water
it is
it
The statement
of Eudra, that
is,
the
water.
48
Sun
up
SIVA.
thrust his
and again
gods,
.
The
weapon was
head of Narayana
and
at
fell
it.
near
Nara and
risTiis
The glow
terrific force.
so
turned green
the
like
mwiya
Siva, seized
of
him by
his
existence
under
circumstances.
the
following
was
at once
activity
of Siva.
The whole
universe
was suspended
sacrifices
all
fire
In a number
we
was formed.
and the
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
Saiva cult; this
between
vedic and
is
Conflict
the
the Saiva cults,
A graphic
worship of Siva.
descrip-
been
mentioned,
is
Malati-Madhava.
At the time
seem
to
have
sacrifices in the
of the
been
temple of Siva,
systematically
offered
admonishing Jarasandha
kings
Mahabhdrata, animals
for
for,
as
we hear Krishna
of
In so
far as
kings to Rudra,
to offer these
Daksha
them
human
to sacrifice
beings in
to
sacrifice
Sahkara human
Siva as
roaming about
in cemeteries
hair.
He
is
mad
seen
SIVA.
human
he
is
insane and
liked
is
by the insane
is
asiva
and he
is
the
lord of the
Let
darkness
essentially
Bhava,
this
is
the
might be
It
of the sacrifice
great yajna
cult.
Mahadeva
to Siva in his
to his
hatred for
Uma, he
addressing
tice of the
gods has
custom, which,
is
all
me
should be offered to
in
any
sacrifice.
By
this
me a share in the
ments we
are led
to
sacrifices."
infer that
From
these state-
him any
other gods.
By the
first
up
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
at a later period
Hindu.
and
is
indeed revolting
is
Siva were
He
Having
lost their
let
is
the deity.
become
heretics.
is
the auspicious
dana
the authority."
is
We obtain
a glimpse of the
Vedic
came
left
religion, took
People, in-
to spirituous
liquors
and
be-
They threw
with bones.
and violated
Brahmanas
off
The conditions
them
of the
to
Vedic
52
SIVA.
He
tells
devout
us that the
pleasures, in domestic
are not
infrequent
life,
in
They
Nandisvara heaps up on
of the Vedas,
The complaint
of the
vaidiJca
life
is
of a
Vedic
rites
With
and a denunciation
of family
life.
come over
we
of the
MaJiabharata, as follows
"
Thus,
Vana-parvan
Adoration to
to
Hari-Eudra."
parvan, we see
it
is
when
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
Narayana, the Lord,
will
conciliation,
viewed as one,
is
also
When
you
I perceive
Siva
who
Vishnu
as
that
there
exists
in the
Vishnu
show me
is
auspicious
of
Siva
Rudra
being)
half
He who
Bestowers
male
(Ardhanarisvara)....And just as
fire
tering
into
Vishnu
vision,
and
Vishnu
of
of
(composite
no difference between
is
the form
in
form
this
Brahma
and
half
appears
boons,
are the
female
fire
entering
fire,
so
into
Rudra
en-
of
the
highest
manifestation
and move
of
two
Vishnu does
have formerly
ciliation
of
attained
oneness."
of the identity of
54
This
recon-
to be based
Rudra, Agni
SIVA.
Agni,
of
as
Eudra
or
The hatred
Vedic cult
attri-
emblem.
sidered
of the ^aiva
was con-
and
of the phallus in
That
is
The
ceremony" and
to the
is
to,
let
not
we read "Proceeding
and
and
desiring to
in
hostile
acquire
array
is
hundred gates."*
stated
in another
conflict,
he has gone
craft
it is
them,
besieged,
irresistible,
The worship
of
the Phallus
the
55
word
who
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
which the non-Aryans
who
nations
of India shared
on the
inhabited
Mediterranean
has
sea,
with other
borders
survived
the
of
India
in
to
pindika (pedestal). It
is
Siva set
temples.
to
Skambha
ceived
representations
Vedas, wherein
of the
as
with
co-extensive
period with
later
Skambha
the
is
con-
universe
and
parts
the
of
such
Ha
is
from
distinct
the
are
comprehended
in
is
"
The
founds
thirty-three gods
him and
who
Prajapati,
out
arose
his highest
of
member, as
".
The gods
who form
part of
praise of
passages,
those
him do homage
i.e.,
same meaning
who
unchaste men.
56
to him.
In the
Durgaoharya
name
is
also
applied to
with prostitutes,
for-
^IVA.
bha
the waters
From
the
we
Prajapati."
of
Skambha
is
He who knows
the mysterious
is
two
first
the golden
of the
three pass-
Hiranyagarbha, or Pu-
to beget
He
pours
The
hiranyayam tishthantam
Prajd,patih.
salile
veda sa
Yd vetasam
vai guhyah
phallus
Lihga
with
have
the
based the
Skambha
of
of the
identity of
the
It
texts of
this
is
the
the
same
Skambha
of Siva's
appearance as a blazing
pillar
between
quarrelling
At a
later
is
given to
of
scholars
time a sort
of philosophical clothing
the primitive
the
Lihga
57
Lihga
and
its
by a section
pedestal
are
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
some
with
viewed,
sentation
the
of
justificatioD,
aranis,
the
the
as
two
repre-
pieces
of
was gene-
generated
is
the
fire,
identified with
of the later
Rudra
to
Hence,
Yoni
of
the
in
its
it
is
represent
Purusha and
Universe,
earlier
stages
That
Prakriti.
works
of
autho-
rity.
are,
Beferences
to
Linga worship.
later or the
and more
vsda,
^i^nadeva.
is
called
When we come
to the
explicit.
fuller
of
the
SIVA.
to the
is
Haryardha
female
principles
found together
in
are
inseparable
cosmic evolution
is
the real
way by
is
also
conveyed in a
Bhagavata-Purana (second
sJcanda)
" the
brief
In the
Mahadeva
is
described by
Brahma
lord of Sakti
seed respectively
spider,
forms
it
as,
and re-absorbs
states that
and
Paramesvara
of the
it."
the
is
is
the
called
Linga)
called the
also
Linga
Lingin
(the
Linga
the visible
Pradhana (nature)
sustainer of
like
universe, who,
the
of
Parabrahman, the
is
is
yoni,
found in the
Brahma
and a female
portion.
The
epithet
mahasepha
vikrita
in
lochanah
HINDU ICONOQBAPHY.
occurring in the Mahabhdrata
in this connection.
same work
to
standing
is
aloft,
also
fixed,
he
is
called
the
and since
Sthanu
his
.
it,
"
point
worth noting
he consumes the
since he is fixed,
also
is
And
men, and
of
lives
Lihga
perpetually
is
and when
since,
of chastity,
his
Lihga
and people
God Maha-
shall adore
Mahadeva,
deva.
It is the Lihga,
which the
He whose
whose Lihga
is
raised up,
the
seed
is
raised
sleeps aloft,
Lihga, the
of the
Sahkaracharya
1) also
is
says "
in
his
When
Siva
The Kuvalayananda
he
is
of
"
We
praise the
each
is of
Quhya
Anandanubhava
it
is
is
In
stated that
who
seed."
Saundaryalahari (verse
IS
who
The Lord
producer
gandharvas and
rishis, gods,
of these
60
two
is
is
the
the cause of
SIVA.
is
an inscription found
following
given.t
in
salutation
"
The only
the
Mysore
and
Siva
to
god,
Again, in
State,
his
victorious
is
Devi
Siva, the
Dish-icfc,
Mysore.
^^;nfr iTfWRT:
^^^
iJUIwillTt rfSTT
II
5r%: f^i^w
^^
"K
S3n% Tiwf?^
5m^ PR^^
siffg^^qsT
is
11
1.
the
7.
II
2TrT
ii
BhagaTatapuraoti"
3. 'TtPrfelTJl^l^ sPTc^^T^^RTH^
Yatulaauddhagama.
61
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
form of
all
whose posses-
united,
essence
things
of
all
the
mingled,
is
born
is
in
do I
reverence."
In the
gives
mantra which
Umayai hhaga-rupinyai
liiiga-rupadharaya
Saiikaraya yiamastuhhyam
I
Uma
salute
Sankara
is
who
in the
is
form
runs thus
in the
of
bhaga and
We
learn from
form
Lihga.
of
cha
union
of the pltjia
which
is
down
In marking the
4.
stone lihga,
it is
it is
jj%
describing
required to be
human pudendum)
^nrrg^
f^S^Ti^IJ^"
Similarly in
Lihga,
of the
"
on the surface
isutras)
lines
We
the
made
form
in the
of
the pltha
for the
"
^^ts^^
Siddhantasaravali.
Eamikagama.
*^
(^ftii^Jiftra'^'Tt'ff^: sfcTsit^crr
62
f^g^*.
SIVA.
texts,
nature
worship.
of linga
evi-
The
two
at present, are
now
known Lingas,
earliest
so far as
preserved in the
been described in a
Lucknow Museum.
Bhita Mr.
this liiiga of
of
it is
of
has
the Director
1910.
About
The top
of
It
is,
account contributed by
brief
we know
is
this bust,
Below
in the
raised
where
human
of dressing the
still
cation.
worn
in
more or
less
defaced,
The upper
broken, only
extant.
it
They
busts of females.
but
the portion
The male
is
being
which
is
shown
left
by a double
held in the
line
left
hand resembles
63
to
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
ointment vessel found in the figures of Bodhisatvas
Gandhara
of the
The
school.
which may be
In
earrings.
of
front,
drawn
lines.
inscription to
To
male
ear of the
left
is
the proper
marked by deeply
of
left
this
is
the
The
referred.
The
inscription
is
in a
good state
as follows
The Linga
of
tran-
by Mr. Banerji
May
The
easily."
of preser-
of
Vasethi.
From
evident that
it is
it is
Tatpurusha, Aghora,
aspects of Siva.
In the
book,
it
Isana
and north
respectively.
The text of this inscription reads as follows Khajahutiputanam l[im]go patithdpito Vdsethi-putcna Ndgasirind piya:
ytaitk] d[e]vaid.
64
PLATE
I.
65.]
SIVA.
The
male
really those of
The palaeography
of
the
for,
found
inscription
is its
most
enables us to determine
it
With
quarian object.
discovered by
me
century B.C.
first
ancient Linga
It is
one
of its class
the
most
and
history
Gudimallam
is of
and
is
is
the one
of
in detail hitherto.
nature of
worship.
the linga
a village situated at
a distance of
In
that
temple, the
known from
an ancient
it
Maha-
the god of
is
still
name
fact
of Parasu-
in puja.
Being a
oil is
spent
which accounts
is
for
when
it
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
was carved
polish
is
there
no way
in
no
is
lost
on
oily dirt
it
not
it is
at a later period.
The
liiiga is
brittle
made
and compact
The Linga
vara.
of
water-pot
(fig. 3,
upon the
head
of the figure of
PI.
turban,
Ill
and
of
left
high
oblique eyes.
V)
two
has
Siva
of
is
held by
Siva
(fig. 2,
is
PI. V).
On
the
a covering, resembling
not
matted,
The
PI. IV).
face
hair
(see
is distinctly
its features,
narrow
forehead
and
with
cheek-bones,
This
in
shoulder
plaited,
fig. 9,
Mongoloid in
nose,
the
or
feet
five
which a ram
its
PI. V),
rests
exactly
figure
wards
pindiJca
arms,
its
This
Siva.
is
it
the floor
is
figure
Parasurames-
on
directly
set
is
of
the central
pedestal
its
is
hills
which takes
in its composition
last
eyes),
one
of
the
i^ja*fai**tii
PLATE
Bust
of the
image
of
III.
PLATE
IV.
Fia,
Fig,
Fig.
67.]
Gudimallam Sculpture
SIVA.
names
of Siva.
(fig. 1,
so as
to
down
hang
on each
of
of
as
the upper-arms
the shoulders
as
far
a highly finished
is
Round
PI. IV).
lace
is
of
rare
the neck
workmanship
(fig.
PL
8,
IV)
insisted
is
Agamas.
7,
it
no yajnopavUa, the
is
be seen a neck-
to
is
figs.
upon
cloth on the
very fine texture, for the thighs and the organ are
visible
through
it
very distinctly.
The
creases and
The
figure of
shoulders of a Rakshasa
who
is
sitting
the Apasmara-purusha
on the ground on
supporting himself
wit;h
his
of
legs.
jatamakuta on
He
his
haunches and
He
too has
of
is,
withal, jolly
and happy,
face.
as is
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
The Linga
composed
itself is
of
On
in a state of erection.
PI.
two
parts, the
virile,
original
each
model,
of
membrum
the
of
of the
Linga, a
an excellent idea
of
human
the
The
phallus.
Linga
in imitation
of
longitudinal facets on
ed in this Linga.
There
of Siva
on
is
this
Linga
to that of a
yaksha in the
and Burgess)
"
(translated by Gibson
of
^all
picture of the
of the
Yaksha
referred to above.
The date
gateways."
Grunwedel,
p. 5.
68
PLATE
V.
69,]
SIVA.
image
of Siva
period. Again,
mallam Lihga
human
to the
nor
not to a
if
was not
earlier
still
Gudi-
of the
it is
certain
a mere symbol
of
of
phallus,
century
first
That
nature.*
its
is
this is
the
is
easily seen
Agamas
for
making a Lihga,
innumerable sculptures
of
Lihga,
treatment of
tive
from the
as also
(For an exhaus-
Chapter
the
see
on
Lihgas).
Because
nature,
it is
There
to be
ashamed
of
the two
Purusha and
the
nothing in
and Sakti,
Siva
and mother
and matter
or
of all
of the physical
human
is
Lihga
great Generative
to consider
phallus,
see
fig.
1,
Temple
Central Travancore.
69
PI.
V.
is
is
set
up in the
at Chennittalai, a village in
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
lihga and the yoni.
of
the Great
least
motherhood
supreme deity
of the
connection with
its
there
worship
them
to
is
it is
nothing obscene
rice
If
there be
any the
in
cleanliness are
Thus, what-
pujari.
The
book
Phallio
yoni,
attentiou
the reader
Hodder
in
of
the
Worship" by
collected
of
is
may
here be drawn to a
Symbolism
M.
London.
as illustrated in
Westrop,
In
this,
published
by
70
free
The
lished
by a number
tions
some
of the
is
estab-
on page 8
publication.
Having considered
and nature
at
of Siva worship,
now
proceed to a
present;, of pballio
Greece, Egypt,
according to Boudia,
till
Judgments on Crimes,
of the 8th
century A.D.
is
said to
71
LINGAS.
10
LINGAS.
SIVA
is
of
is,
in a large
central
some temples
of Siva
we
in the
seen,
as in
South India,
To
is,
classes,
acliala-lingas,
of
Siva temples.
set
up
in the central
description
be given
first
of
the
had better
important class
of achala-lingas.
75
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The
(those
made
lohaja (of
of earth),
ratnaja
metals),
jlglmaLfnVs'
mrinmaya
divided into
chala-lingas are
precious
(of
and
made
for the
ately
Lingas.
or
use
their
over).
is
The
lihga
it is
stated in
clay, gathered
of hills
Eamikagama
the
and banks
of rivers,
well
milky
trees,
of
wheat and
powdered sandal
or, at
that white
The
The baked
linga
is
as those
made
clay linga
is,
then
for a fortnight
then shaped
is
is
Agamas
used for
for incantations
such
an
enemy.
The lohaja
The
Lohaja
lingas
ing
may
eight
silver,
be
metals,
may
of the follow-
namely,
gold,
ja-lihgas
made
LINGAS.
(vai^urya)
quartz
emerald
and bluestone
precious
stones employed
that
liingas.
lingas
are
made
lingas are
manduJca,
and udumbara
pippala,
timber
the
making
in
JcarniMra,
these,
the ratnas or
of
Daruja
arjuna,
(pushyaraga),
is,
The Daruja
seven in number.
The
topaz
crystal,
of
all
for
and
trees
when
besides
such trees
mentioned as good
tinduha,
as
have
cut, is also
it is
images.
trees,
sdla,
which
of
L^gL.^*^^*""*
lingas.
the
in
is
also
The stone
class
of
fit
for
making
Zm^^as included
chala-lihgas are
Vira Saivas.
The Kshanika
cast
away.
(sand),
known
The
are
uncooked
cow "dung,
rice,
cooked
of
saikatam
sandal paste,
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
kurcha grass, flowers, jaggery, and
Effect of worshipping various
kinds of Lingas.
linga
made
;
>
cooked
of
plenty of food
rice,
made
a lihga
removes
all
temper
of
disease
gathered from
of clay
estates
cow-dung,
of
of butter,
prescribed for
is
It is said
flour.
that worshipping
Imga
made of
J
FJr& a
gold grants wealth (sripradam)
f
\
/
^
^
one of uncooked rice, vibhava ; a
life
of
who
kurcha grass
for
linga composed of
one made
those
jaggery con-
of
Uttara-kdnda
of
Bdmdyana
the
it is
stated that
sand,
smell
iyatra
yatra
to
cha
it
Bdvano
ydtisma
gandhibhih).
worshipped
it
pedestal of
The
was intended
of
rdkshaseivara
archaydmdsa
commentator remarks
sovereignty.
For
it is
He
pre-
mayam
desires
sovereignty.
nitya-pujd lihgam
aisvarya
kdma^idya hi tal-lihga-
78
LINGAS.
It is further stated that the
metals,
precious stones
Imgas made
should
etc.,
have
is
of
only
projecting
liiigas
which
name
is
set
up
in a separate
and which
to be visible
Budra-bhaga
of the
is
known by
the
No
of achala-lingas in
as in the case
required to be
The Achala
*o '^16
or
sthavaraLingas.
^^^g^.
Suprabheddgama,
^-^^
j^^^^^^^
classified
namely,
the
olassifioation acoording to
Of
whioh
a variety
any
whioh
is
not mentioned
of these lingas.
fellTRf^
79
but
it
gives
^n^riSf^ot
no description
^Sg^rr
of
Irt
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
Svayambhuva,
these, the
Their ciaesifica*'^"'
of lingas
Uttamamadhyama
classes,
(middling
of
are
the
variety
superior)
nUamadhama
(lowest
among
the
superior) variety.
variety.
The Makutagama
of sthira-lingas,
Manusha
most authoritative
of all the
lingas,
whereas the
Kamihagama
divided into
six
classes,
the
are
Svayambhuva, the
Manusha
apparent
diversity
Agamas
among
of
Though
there
the statements of
is
the
various
practically
some
lingas.
there
is
no difference at
all in
varieties
list,
them
under the
LINGAS.
into existence by itself and
As
immemorial.
these
bhuvaLinga,
are
fire,
inundation or encroachment of
religion
the
like
possessed by devils,
(jirnoddhara).
If
wild elephants,
rivers,
enemies of
madmen
Tulushkas, *
if
damaged by
slightly
causes such as
even
such,
men
or
anything at
all
is
necessary,
it
*While oommenting on the word ripavah, Nigamajnanadeva, son of Vamadevasivaoharya says, ripavah iatruvastulush-
kddaya
called
Yamadeva was
Sambhuvaraya.
varayas, (that
themselves
of
There
members
is,
whose
initial
dynasty
whom
of
Vamadeva seems
date
is
it
the
Sambhu-
who
styled
Sambhuvaraya,
A. D.
1322-23.
me
Tiruvamattur and
is
four
of chiefs
Eajanarayana Sambhu-
to be
which
three or
are
of a
Sambhuvarayas),
the patron of
varayar,
at
one
said
is
In
in the
suspended for want of funds and that Eajanarayana Sambhuvarayar granted some lands and money to revive the pujas.
Vamadeva wrote
dhara dasaka.
Tiruvannamalai
in
sitting
the Arunaohain
commentary
this
gopura,
of the Jirnod-
mind
of the author
81
11
who,
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
is
Svayambhuva Linga
required,
if
is
broken, the
possible, to be
broken part
is
if
may
the
If a portion of
be thrown away.
Svayambhuva Linga
is,
however,
setting
and thrown
and
If,
such
In
duty.
so sacred that
Agamas
the
fact,
it is
classes of Lihgas,
village
it
is
of the
Svayambhuva
Svayambhuva nature
the
If
for the
Linga
set
which
said to
up
in
possess
of these places,
its
temple.
list
by Nigamajnanadeva
of
Jirnoddhdia-dasakani
Vyaghrapura, son
*
The
Sixty-eight places,
of
sixty-eight
his
VdmadevaHvacharya*
places wherein
:
82
Svayambhuva Lingas
LliJGAS.
No.
to
the
are recognised,
according
MaJcutagama,
by
characteristic
shapes.
their
They may
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY,
be of the shape of a flame or resemble
No,
a pair of
LINGAS.
they
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
with
exterior
elevations
and depressions,
deep
and
sula (trident).
possess
The Ganapa-lihgas
to have been set
The Ganapa
They
by Ganas.
cucumber, citron,
of the
Arsha liingas.
set
fruits of
they are
the
Ganapa
Daivika
an unhusked cocoanut
like
lihgas
lihgas, are
words,
in other
fruit.
lihgas,
Both
like
the
Kiranagama informs us
that the
Svayambhuva, the
The
largest
Manusha
The
^^^^*'
number
of
the
achala or the
Manusha
lihgas.
As the name
of those set
in accord-
Agamas and
ment
of the
of the following,
LIl?fGAS.
is
The
Manusha
lingas are
is
made up
the Brahma-bhaga,
as
known
section,
of three parts,
is
known
as the
Eudrabhaga
namely,
known
top-
as the
On
the Eudrabhaga
all
chapter.
The
lingas
Lengths of the
Sarvadesika Lin-
shrme are
&
lingas
are fractions such
half, of
different proportions
which
as three-fifths, five-ninths, or
adhama
or the
superior,
inferior varieties.
87
which
madliyama and
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The second
class of the
Of sarvasama
^"^^*'
called the
Mayamata and
the
Manusha
Sarvasama
liiigas
linga.
is
It is
in the
K^mikagama.
In the Sarvasama* class of lingas the brahmabhaga, the Vishnubhaga and the
Rudrabhaga
mliJist^^^'
equal in length;
are
Varddhamana
ing to the
linga,
linga, t
which
is
known, accord-
also
Siddhantasdravali,
as
the Suredhya
6,
7,
or 6,
proportion
8,
7,
4, 5,
is
or
7,
9.
8,
prescribed for
4, 6,
the
6 or
Of these the
Brahmanas and
Liiatf
respectively.
The
lengths of the
Brahmabbaga
etc.,
Mayamata
Karanagama and
are 7, 7, 8 or 5, 5, 6 or 4, 4, 5
Brahmanas.
or 3, 3, 4, respectively
* Literally
+
Literally
Literally
'
'
'
all-equal
'.
of larger length.'
LINGAS.
Anadhya
as the
The proportion of
Brahmabhaga and other parts
dhantasar avail.
the
mata
Of
same
Svastika
Of
"^^*'
the lengths of
in the Svastika
as 2, 3, 4 respectively.
Trairasika
"^^^^-
the
the Rudrabhaga
six.
is
we have
to
of
deduce it
to eight of these
is
one
is
nine
feet,
we have
foot. If, as
feet.
The same
is
the length of
approximately
= l.
89
8, 6.
where
'
624*
= tbe
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
and
Thus
there
(See
down
the KamiJcagama,
those
the
jv.
Adhya
yet one
Agamas and
in the
obtained mathematically.
is
VII.)
is
proportions laid
^
Of j.^
the
Linga,
PL
fig. 1,
more
Adhya-lihga
Brahma-
of this
far about
I shall
lingas.
now proceed
various
to the
of
So
classes of
general rule
The Siddhantasdravali
.^...r.
Widths
lays
down
the foUow-
of
Lingas.
the width of
four
width
and
lastly of the
section
the octagonal
of
the linga
is
Sarvasama
liiiga, five
the
obviously
90
the
same throughout.
LINGAS.
The Mayamata
of the various
The
central
shrines
Hindu temples
of
are
The width
Unga
of the
given
jg
Lingas^
follows
one side
parts
in
it
6,
with a width of
The
4 or 3
of these
to be set
is
parts.
known
of
the
up
adhamddhama
Jayada
as the
Nagara type
in the
of central shrine
superior liiiga
adhama-madhyama, adhamottama
yama-madhyama, madhyambttama
madhyama
is .6.
of
and that
Between
lihgas,
the
adhamddhama
temples
up
The one
these two
the
as
five parts is
of the
Nagara variety
The length
is .5 of
in the
might be
plan.
itself
up
Mayamata
the
in
classes.
to be set
Nagara
namely, the
classes,
varieties,
which
is .1.
91
Nagara
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
or the victory-bestowing variety
the strength-
three
of
variety.
of the lihgas to
In the case
Gravida form
Of Dravida
^"'^*^-
widths
the
following
of
be set up in the
central shrines,
their
gives
rule
is
six
Jayada lihga
whose width
whose width
five parts is
is
is
four parts
is
that
Sarvakamika.
proportions
*
Hhgas
up
The length
the total
of the
the difference
Set
is
is
Uttamottama class
is
up
that of the
3/21 or 1/7.
adhamddhama
is
10/21 and
etc.,
of these latter
adhamadhama
lihga
we
The length
of the
Uttamottama lihga
of the
Vesara type
3/25
92
by the
Plate
VI.
<
if)
a:
<
CO
tQ
<
>
lO
liSgas.
divided into twenty-five equal parts, the width of
is
eight
parts
and
of the
that
of
the
Sarvakamika,
six parts.
to scale
PI.
VI
it
might be
resembling
half-moon
known
the
some,
the egg.
like
of
as the
making
down
about which
it
of the
top of
is
an
The
technically
Minute
sirdvarttana.
for
is
account.
The
The tops of
^^^^*'
according
named
ing
to
the
to
the
five,
Mayamata, and
Siddhantasaravali.
respectively
They
four
are
tripushdkara,
chhatrakara,
arddha-chandrdkdra
kukkutandakdra,
accord-
and
bud-
shaped
last
and
named
the
bubble-like
variety
has
been
the
respectively.
omitted
dhama
variety
we
etc., of
half-moon-
its
The
by
the
author
is
93
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
inclined to include
in
it
conic sections
and
the
the mathemati-
known
to the
study of
for the
As
Hindu mathematics.
History of
their
the
to
relating
rules
of greater interest to
formation are
difierent
forms represent
These different
class.
the arddha-chandrakara
these
to understand they
but the
original texts
use of
them.
There
yet one
is
more
detail in the
making
of
worship
it is
and
Two
fit
known
vertical
pujabhaga, as
it is
often
referred to in the
of these lines*
in
These
Mayamata ; manirekhd,
names
pdrsva-sutra,
of these.
94
etc.,
are
also other
f=5
CD
C8
fl
c3
c3
CD
CD
LI^GAS.
following rule
of the
divide further
now
the thick-
either side,
of
two
one on
from
the
central
which
is
the pujabhaga
of
side-lines,
PI.
fig. 1, PI.
X).
(See
The two
by a curved
line
Among
the linga.
(siras) of
more
sataLinga?***''*
varieties,
tfittara-sata-Unga,
linga, the
the
Sahasra-
Mukha
linga.
Of
these, the
bhaga
of the
Suredhya
linga.
95
They
are produced
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
by cutting four equidistant horizontal deep
on the surface
of the
pujdbhaga
lines
at right angles to
The portions
lines.
of
and horizontal
lines
are
and the
top.
Thus
main lihga
fig. 2, PI.
VII, and
fig. 1,
PI. VIII).
^^^'^^"^^^-
"^^^
exactly the
ashtpttara-
carving of
the
In the case
of the
of
the
pujdbhaga
an Adhya-
of
nine (See
The
fig. 2,
PI. VIII).
of
^The
Dhara
which
has
round
sixty-four in number.
bheddgama prescribes
facets for
pujdbhaga
Dhara
mentions only 16
it
from
while the
five to
The Supra-
lingas,
vertical
24 and 28
Kdrandgama
facets.
96
lays
l>LATe Vlll
hi
on'
-mi'
S3
ct-
S3
er
O
a
o
<
o
tej
CO
so
tr
S3
aTO
S>
o
d
[ ;/g
aS-ed 90BJ
ox]
LIISIGAS.
down
number
of facets in the
and 64
iKamiJcagama
lays
down on
is
4,
8 and 16
The
respectively.
16 and 32
8,
text of the
this point
of the
it
The
unintelligible.
is
Sarvasama
lingas.
The Mukhalinga
The Mukhalinga.
is
Manusha-lingas and
is
distinguish-
ed from
bears one or more
all
human
of
a Mukhalinga
all
it
it.
the
it
Vamadeva,
of Siva.
its
fig.
in front
1,
sides,
if it
is,
has
at the
PL IX)
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
faces on the lihga,
is,
on
all
if
faces or five
fig. 2,
PI.
IX)
if,
in the
The Isana
aspect of Siva
on the top
of
the lihga
is
south
In the
case of the
which ought
chest {stana-sutra)
Fig.
2, PI.
X).
(See
Each
fig. 3,
PL VII,
of these figures
PI.
XI and
should have
all
down
other
for
From
given above,
it is
viemtrum
virile
Manusha
is
lihgas
symbol repre-
of
the nut from the shaft and the rounded top completes its
likeness to the
98
human
phallus.
The
LINGAS,
Brahmabhaga and
signed to
fix
only de-
Of
linga
member
and
in
fits
of the pitha,
prevents
its rotation.
member
it
The
and which
known
set
up in pedestals
Pithas.
hexagon,
Forms of the
plans of pithas,
duodecagon,
elongated
16 sided, regular or
duodecagon,
The Manasdra
lays
forms
of
vimdnas
down
in the
it
is
s[Tf^ sri%i
aHR
*
l-^ft
^c
cTrr
99
the
(central shrines)
is
ii
-f:
in plan
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Length
the
of
side
pithas.
of
one side
of
may
it
equal to the
total length
words two-thirds
the linga.
The
of the
be twice
pujabhdiga, or
linga
in other
whose
is
side is
said to
adhamddhama.
linga,
of
the
linga into
length of the
Adhamadhama
pitha's side
is
the
obtained.
parts.
PLATE
Xll,
k.
'd-
v>
^ ^
\3
!i)
<r
-o
i^
<r
00
-^^
^
J.
Ire
tTo
.I
r-
tini.
c
^ ootir->5'oq-iOt<T-
"
<<
'J-lOC^JOiriOO'^'^'OT'^rV
- Kl rJ
j'
Ojs^
LINGAS.
The length
may
also be
The height
theplth"^
of the
Vishnuhhdga.
as far
the Vishnu-
bhaga
or
of the
ling a
might
it
Vishnubhdga.
of one,
two
another
of orna-
tiers
one
-r->i
vajra-P.,
The various items of the mouldings are known as updna, jagati, kumuda, padma,
kampa, kaiitha, pattikd, nimna and ghritavdri.
Drawings made to scale of a few of the pithas are
given on PI. XII. The upper surface of the pMha
and Vajra-P.
is
of the
SO shaped as to
is
101
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
to the side of the pltha
worshipper
of
left of
it.
The length
water-course which is known
of this
in
faces
on the
water spout or
origin,
is
its
The
lip of
its
origin.
width at
an elephant.
CD.,
PI. XII).
The
liiiga
should be
made out
of
pum-sila or
female stone.
strl-
and other
stones, timber,
agamas, but
it
is
of
102
T AVING
let
me now
LingodbhavamQrti.
This
Agamas
is
is
common
one of the
which according
to the
Siva
is
of a blazing pillar of
pride of
immeasurable
Eurma-piirana, the
Vishnu at the
end
of
from
it
105
11
of
Vishnu
replied that he
was
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
also the architect of the
Brahma
universe.
could
At
liiiga
set
of
it.
Brahma and
Vishnu
fire,
mass
which pur-
of fire, for
and flew up
form
in the air
of a boar
The attempt
reality
of
and measure
something
than themselves
pillar of
them
in the
fire
whose top
thus humiliated
fire
and began
body
legs,
bow
made
bling
of
the
clouds
or
drum,
" You
addressed
are
to
was
fested himself to
moon and
futile.
praise
proved
far greater
the
discover
106
LINGODBHAVAMURTI.
and Vishnu from the
right loin
but
and
Brahma
now
are
loin
left
all
three
separated into
Thus
came to be worshipped by
While searching for the top
linga
Brahma came by
asked
it
all
it
it
fire,
flower
and
JcetaJci
was descending
was
falling
Taking hold
descended and
lied to
of
this
to this the
remember.
the
men.
of the pillar of
a petal of the
wherefrom
dec-
Mahesvara disappeared.
be
it
petal,
of
could not
Brahma
it
had brought
For uttering
this
In the Amsumadbheddgama
is
Chandrasekharamurti
the Iviiga
Kdrandgama
should be
left
The
It is
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
bottom respectively without any sculpture.
legs below
The
is,
should be
left
and near
of the lihga
On the right
Brahma should be
unsculptured.
its
top
swan
(Jiamsa) while
left at
figures
respectively of
left
The
be sculptured on
it,
The colour
Brahma
golden yellow.
found in the
The
The
figures of
the panel
or they
may
The Silparatna
hands
whereas, the
Karanagama
requires that of
PLATE
XIII.
'<" *%'
'^'^^
Liutoubbavamurti
Kailasanathasvamin Temple
Stone:
:
Conjeevaram.
LINGODBHAVAMUETI.
another in the varada pose, a third should carry
the parasu and the fourth a hrishna-mriga (a black
moon
description
XIII)
in the
first
is
which
the
is
photograph
is
Kailasanathasvamin temple
sculpture
Such
of Siva.
Lingodbhavamurti,
of the
illustrated
(PI.
crown
(chandra-
much
very
The
descriptions.
old.
at variance
figure of
at
Conjeevaram
This piece of
Siva-Chandrasekhara
while one
another
is
top
is
liiiga
not
resting
Then again
is
unsculptured, nor
left
is
equal to a
fifth of
Sanskrit texts
on the crown
of
Siva
moon
is
shown
Agamas,
is
109
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
Brahma
is
swan
deities
one of his
on the
left of
the
Brahma and
legs,
are sculptured
on the
right
and
left of
lifted
up
rests
upon the
the lihga
hip,
The top
of the niche
Fig.
Amhar
wreath
of flowers
Siva
is
in the
In
thrown over
this,
its
XIV,
re-
temple
in the
Siva at
Mdbgalam.
2., PI.
of
top
of
the figure of
which
is
held
in the katyavalambita
The
Agamas ;
On
legs
down
in
left of
is
its
top
is
prominently visible
the lihga
is to
be seen the
boar, half
man and
This piece
period, that
is,
to be
to the 11th or
110
Chola
PLATE
XIV.
2^^'~~'*!**%ni."
To
LINGODBHAVAMtJETI.
(Fig. 2,
work
it
of
it,
the
others
mriga
(deer).
Since Siva
is
said in
with a capital.
Flames
pillar.
air,
Brahma with
four faces
On
left
are seen
is
two
deities.
The
details
in
this
etc., of
sculpture
all
these
It
are
might
the lihga.
Ill
CHANDEA^EKHAEAMUETI.
*'
^HB name
Chandrasekharamurti implies an
How Siva
head-ornament.
came
its
to possess snakes
the
demon under
his feet,
to
images of Siva.
on
his loins
up
in his
thus
skull
crown is described
wear
the tiger
in the
Suprabhedagama
of the
The
chastity.
incantations to
love with
in
fell
Eishis, wild
kill
him and
of
lost their
tiger,
destroying Siva
all
The
113
le
For
hands
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
for his sports the black-deer, the
and
is
the lion and the tiger were killed by Siva and their
worn by him as
skins
and the
digit
moon were
the
of
jatamakuta as ornaments.
adds further that
all
placed on his
The Suprabhedagama
have the
Jceyura,
may have
yajnoSpecial
name
is
not known.
of
fea-
manus-
if
it
is
painted on a
or golden yellow.
shoulders, long
lotus
sutras.
possess high
sun
liati-
chandeas'EkhaeamtJbti.
blue throat,
If the
in the text in
arrfcts)
(it is
not mentioned
should carry
it
all
eight
when he
is
The image
of Siva,
JchetaJca.
when
it
skull,
of
destroying the
three-castle
{Tripura-dahana)
Siva
mentioned
image
chahra and the gada in the right hands and the bow,
a bell and the saiikha in the left hands. In the
aspect of Bhairava, Siva has eighteen arms
115
the
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
hands
additional
Sankha
hold
(?)*
^(5T5rrfw\r g%s^t^5ri^:
Sfpii =q?5
=^
II
crn
^r^#
flRiyj 3Trt
^if^rfSr^
%^
^^^fl^^^r
^itg;
f^^^Prm:
^(?)^%^:^i^ft ^Tftrssr^
=^ ^rr
ii
^oisVJTf^^ Vf^^
st^fT
w^-
3 s^jft^
=gTinTn%^?m.
^TF^T^j^^^wrf^^^
116
ii
ii
^r^) 3^:
ii
jrn^HH;
^fiit^rf^rgcT:
q^ %^
fjf^g;
g^ %w ^"Ti^ ^J^
nsni^^^TT^
^m
daniaru
the
11
II
ii
II
and
the
CHANDEAS'SKHAEAMtJETI.
of
the
Kahkala,
the
Kamantaka
and
all
near Siva.
in
The height
company with
of the
uttama
class
if
up
Devi,
to his
mouth,
if
of the
if
of
Karanagama,
of
Dakshinamurti
is
to
be white
while that of
all
The image
of
Chandrasekharamurti
is
divided
All these
gama
Kevalamurti
Eevala-mtirti.
117
HINDU ICONOGBAPHY.
held in the abhaya pose, one of his
left
hands in the
left
hhahga.
is,
in the attitude
He should
be
shown
known
as wearing
as sama-
on
his
be adorned with
all
ornaments
moon
face,
and
he should be clad
in yellow
head
of
which
If
be
should be kept so as to
I, it
fig
5,
PI.
make the
V. of
wrist
hand has
its
on the same
fingers slightly
plate, the
image.
is
If the
as in
fig.
4,
attitude
bent,
The samabhanga
The
and the
deer
may
from
it.
The
crescent of the
of
moon may be
118
attached
the jatamakuta.
away
The
ohandeasEkaeamurti.
To the above description, the Uttara-Jcamikagama adds, that the right front hand may be held
in the simhaJcarna, JcataJcahasta or the Jcatyavalam-
bitahasta pose.
are
of the taiika
is,
ear.
figure of Siva
or be
away from
away from
In the
it.
left
ear-
may
named
the
The curls of
far down as the
kundala.
back as
hair should
ear,
hang
at
the
The
figure
of
mented with
several
well
and there
the
Besides, there
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
the arms
rings
and the
adorned with
fingers should be
of
Chandrasekhara should
The second
is,
variety of Chandrasekharamurti
we have mentioned
as
above,
Umasahitamurti.
of
m^Ti*'**^^**
as the
the
image
If
Devi by his
same pedestal
known
either
side,
it
of the
on
the
is
said
with
to be Uma-sahitamurti, or Chandrasekhara
Uma.
The third variety of Chandrasekharamurti is
known as the Alingana-murti. In this aspect,
Chandrasekhara
is
to be represent-
side of the
arms
this
arm might
just
Devi
hand a red
right
left
;
arm
rest
upon the
it
may
lotus flower.
be
of
the
left
in her
hand
of the
hand
of the
Devi should
of Siva a little
hand
two
of the
rest
figures of Siva
and
120
left
and the
left
Or,
the
flower.
Uma may
be embracing
'
PLATE
XV.
'3
J3
^\S
?
"^
p"
"^
^i^
GHANDEA^EKARAMUETI.
Thus there
which the
figure of Alingana
modes
are three
in
may
Chandrasekhara
be sculptured.
In
all
must
image
of
It
Siva should
The
The Devi
and
of coral,
while
here said
is
required to be standing
is
right
slightly bent.
left leg,
In
her
flower.
The
first
who produced
this
image
every detail
followed
in
descriptions of the
Agamas ;
the image
on a padma-pltha
The artist
Kevala Chandra-
of the
sekharamurti has
perfectly erect
comes from
its
is
the
standing
varada-hasta
required
sculptor
is
by
the
Agamas.
fact,
the
16
In
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
scrupulous care to be true to the descriptions of
Agamas
instinct,
is
that
he had
if
in
it
artistic
result
with
its
really of
PI.
ill-shaped
an
XVI,
legs,
inferior kind.
is
It is
in
The
core.
figure
is
found in the
and
and
left
left
as being
It
back right
poses respectively.
of the
image
is
one
of the best
specimens of wood-carving
This
XVII,
is
of the
The
Umasahita-
Tiruvorriyur
near
The
Madras.
rules of the
will be observed, is
The height
of
Uma
its face
comes up
122
shoulders
of
PLATE
XVI.
Eevala-Cbandriisokbaramurti.
Wood
PLATE'XVIII.
CHANDEA^EKARAMtJRTI.
Siva and the Devi
is
therefore of the
adhama
class.
is
Uma
PL XV). In
Agaram
^ettur (See
and
three bends in
one
The
first
figure of Siva
described
the
left
The
also far
artistic
is
temple at
is
Madeour.
PI.
1,
Uma-sahita-murti
This
is
fine
conceived and
sculpture
correctly
executed.
pUha and
XVIII
fixed
of
piece
is
the
of
very neatly
Uma
stand
on a hhadra-
mandala.
fig. 2,
PL XVIII,
repre-
Mayuranathasvamin temple
at
Mayavaram.
Siva,
two back
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
front right
hand is
hand
in the
The
abhaya pose.
and
is
front left
resting
on her
Chola period
In the image
A.D.)
as
(of
fig.
1,
PI.
Kevalamurti
Pattisvaram reproduced
of
of Tiruppalatturai
(fig. 1,
Devi
and Kovilur,
the
of the
Devi
of
of
same
of the
of the
Marudantanallur
PL XIX,
shoulder
that
figure of Devi.
XV), and
2 and 3 respectively of
figs.
hand
left
PI.
the
closely
is,
The
left
photograph
original of the
of
XX, belongs to
an akshamald, a
three of
its
is
lotus flower.
the
feet
124
of
an
thrown over
right
left,
is
and the
tri'sula
and
On
its
and
the right
Siva and
Uma
PLATE
XIX,
^i^:^-^
o
f-^
PLATE XX.
Alingana-Cbandrasekhara-murti
Stone
Angur
Bellary District.
ghandea^Ekaeamubti.
respectively are seated their
two
sons, G-anapati
and Subrahmanya on
the floor
highest praise
is
due to the
The
his peacock.
on
excellent
figures,
effect
observer.
The
the Eaudrapasupatamurti.
and Baudrapasu-
.rasupatamurti
patamurti.
t
standmg
,
erect
should
/
t t
also
be
[samabhanga] as in
upright on
all
One
body.
sides,
of the right
One
of the left
in the
The
must be decorated with all ornaments and it must have a good look with a gentle
smile playing upon its lips.
The Amsumadbhedagama states that the image of Pasupata-miarti maybe
mala.
figure
wants
Jcapala
it
to be a standing figure
in
above
Amsumadbhed&gama,
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
the
Pasupatamurti
be
to
is
the Eaudrapasupatamurti
The
it
becorties
to
is
made
one of
of snakes, flaming
its
trisula held
horizontal
position
this
aspect
of
in
head
Icapala.
trisula in
upon
Meditating
all
126
SUKHASANAMURTI. UMASAHITAMURTI,
SOMASKANDAMURTI AND UMAMAHESVARAMURTI.
SUKHASANAMtJETI, UMASAHITAMURTI,
SOMASKANDAMUETI AND
UMAMAHESVARAMURTI.
'T^HE
^
known
usually
to
the Sukhasanamurti
^sukhasana-
practically the
tion given in
is
described as
as the descrip-
The image
erectly
The
upon a bhadra-pUha
it.
It
must be clad
back
left
of
is
same
other authorities.
all
SukhipSanamurti
of the
is
is
to be the parasu,
and
front right
in
in
in its
hand
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
hand may be
left
simhakarna pose.
varada or the
either in the
either a
vritta-kundald,s
in
both the
may
be
The head
is
or there
ears.
serpents (sarpa-
like
ornaments.
besides
all
other
Devi nor
The
Purva-Karanagama
differs
upon the
seat
When
it
and the
left
one hanging.
paragraph,
Sukhasanamurti.
is
TJmasahita-
^^^
it
to be
left
hand
image
left
the group
is
of
in her right
either in the
may
simhakarna pose or
Her head is
karanda-makuta. The left
adorned with a
is
to the
hold her
also
Devi
of the
is
Umasahitamurti.
latter,
tion of the
Siva.
Devi
as the
known as
The posi-
"'"*^'
known
130
SUKHASANAMtETI.
leg of the
the
to be bent
The Silparatna
hand
hand held
might
is
seat,
rest
left
in the
on the pitha a
little
left
left
hand
to the left of
all
is
re-
Purva-Earandgama adds
The Devi
silk
The
garments.
that of Siva.
The
on the same
seat
mandala
as described above
is
known
as the
Uma-
sahitamurti.
The
is
the
figure
on the seat or
sitting
on the
lap of
The
child
and bracelets.
if it is
standing
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
simply,
flower
may
carry in
left
hand
right
its
hand hanging
it,
the
left
or the
a lotus
two
or as the
hand should be
There should
it
should carry in
represented as dancing,
is
its left
hand a
fruit
or the left
fruit.
the
height
of
that of
Siva
and
quarter of
states that
it
according
Brahma
side
of
the
Soma-
skandamurti.
umamahesvaramurti.
of
the
The former
the image of
PLATE
XXI.
in
(fl
L_.__
SUKHASANAMtJETI.
Siva and
Uma
should
in
it
his
seat,
mahuia on
on
be seated
shoulder of
Uma.
left
and
left
hand a
Uma should
of iva
The
mirror.
be sculptured very
beautifully.
that
Siva
in the other
one of the
left
Uma
and
of
left
hand.
coral.
Granesa,
rishi
of the
There should be
Kumara and
Bhringi dancing,
all
arranged in an artistic
composition.
Figs. 1
aspects
and
known
2,
PI.
XXI,
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
the Sukhasanamurti.
If
In
Umasahita-murtis.
the
left
Devi
of the
the other
is
stone image
and
2,
PI.
the
ture;
is
the
is
in
in the
left
hand
is
it
hand
left
XXII
are
The
Figs, 1
of sculp-
first
The
accuracy
scrupulous
superb.
Devi
is
descriptions
textual
In the
rests
are
and the
first piece,
is
in the
the left
ear
left
and
hand
the
the
of
is
the
piece,
it
with
workmanship
Skanda
carried out
makara-hun^ala
fatra
or
Attention may
in
the right
vritta-Jcundala
in
the
Illustrations beginning
from PL XXIII to
134
XXIX
PLATE
F.ig.
1.
Somaskandaraurti.
Fig. 2.
XXII.
Bronze: Madeour.
Somaskandamarti.
in Nellore.
PLATE
XXIIf,
wmmt*"'riiir^ir
Uinamahesvaramurti
Scone
PLATE
XXIV.
Umamahesvaramurti
Stone
Aihole.
SUKHASANAMtJRTI.
XXIII
PL
Umamahesvaramurti.
represent
is
In
lary District.
left lap of
in
Uma
this,
seated upon
is
Iwhga
The
fruit.
in the
front right
left
shoulder of
Siva
of
front left
Uma.
trikula
is
held
hand
is
In the back
respectively.
hair done
side of the
hand a matu-
left
hand
placed on the
right
the
On
in a fine side-knot.
the prabha-
Kumara, the
not
are
sculptured.
photograph of a piece
Aihole.
Here,
Siva
hand embraces
carrying
is
and
arm
is
in his left
on the
the remaining
on her shoulder.
left
the
Uma
thigh of Siva
left
side of the
are seated,
lotus flowers
fruit
is
the
be holding
by their stalks
the
two hands
hand three
rests
is
be found in
in
trisula
On
broken.
XXIV
PI.
of sculpture to
hand the
Uma
rishi
Below
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
rishi
to be
on the right
seat
the
XXV
PI.
are
of
Bhringi appears to be
lost,
is
the effect
it
6iva
praise.
is
back hands
left
Uma
is
left
snake ornaments
of
lobes,
On
There
on
the
is
a profusion
the elder,
left
are the
Ganapati,
of Siva.
two children
of
Uma,
Ganesa
in the left of
right
him
In front
of his
favourite
of the seat of
Siva
is
PLATE XXV.
Umamahelvaramurti
Ivory
Trivandram School
of Arts.
fLATE XXVl.
(D
t I
XI J3
"
a 's
.
CO
137.]
SUKHASANAMtJETI.
Fig.
1, PI.
found in the
Uma
is
seated on the
right
flower in her
left
left
In this
Haveri.
lap of Siva
as
also
and embraces
sula,
pala.
At the
is
in each
carved a
diJc-
Uma
is
a tiny figure of
him
sits
Nandi, the
bull
upon
his peacock
vehicle
of
Kumara with
vehicle,
Uma-P5rvati.
PI.
XXVI
is
Corres-
of Siva.
and an
The
In
left side of
heads seated
alligator,
whole
the
work
is
tastefully.
Siva
is,
in this
one
is
embracing
18
Both
Uma
HINDU iCONOGRAPHY.
and Siva are wearing sankha-patra ktmdalas, that
is,
Round
sections of concli-shelis.
Siva
is
Uma
is
fashioned into an
On the top
Brahma in
his
right
and appears
hand which
hand corner
to
have
broken.
is
hands the
on the
The middle
ingly
the head of
left is
Correspond-
of praise.
on a
full
blown
lotus.
There
a distinctly notice-
is
Below
are unidentifiable,
in a
on the right
on the
left.
and Kumara
behind Bhringi.
There
The grouping
of
are repreis
the
also the
members
and
its
XXVII-XXIX
temples
of
the
tPLATE XXVII.
tiftruahegvaramurti.
139.]
Stone panel
Ellora.
stjkhAsanamGrti.
of family likeness could be noticed in these three
them a number
and around
them.
is
upon
The
artists of these
vigorous figure
of
In
is
XXVII
PI.
which
is
who
is
Nothing
left
art.
one of
What
upon the
right thigh
was
Uma
stands Kumara,
who
(?)
two divine
On either
figures,
who
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
because neither of them has four faces.
two dvarapalaJcas.
in all probability
PI.
number
of
left of
Uma
servant.
is
worthy
It is
is
Herein there
of notice
woman
that to the
woman
a characteristic
is
In the lower
is
kinds of offerings
worth noticing
XXVIII
This dwarfish
are
They
it
The
one peculiarity
an
Buddha
treading on
the earth,
are borne
by devas
of
lest they,
awaken the guards and stop Buddha from renouncing the world.
The
sculptors of
all
extreme
left
In
PI.
XXIX one is
seen in the
an obscene manner.
is
in this
PLATE
XXVIII.
S
a
c3
<D
a
o
'0
a
03
03
a
a
PLATE XXIX.
,/
J-
UiBamabesvaramurti.
141,]
Stone panel
Ellora.
SUKHASANAMUETI.
panel one
is
of the hair of
Uma
and dressing
left
it
is
taking hold
up.
6iva
is
out to
to
Uma
He is evidently
giving
141
to Parvati.
SAMHARAMURTIS.
SAMHAEAMUETIS.
SIVA
is
terrific,
conferrer.
is
known by
is
known
as
asura
of
Death
down
Kamantakamurti, because,
the
God
his austerities
he
is
be
it
burnt
of
;
consort,
God
with his
bestowing boons
The
votaries.
and blessings on
is
called
for
example,
Chandesanugrahamurti, because he
19
his deserving
boon
of being the
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
steward of the household of Siva
Vishnvanugraha-
who
and
for
also presented
of
and so
Siva
forth.
is
a great
is
Being
often repre-
modes
of
is
portrayed as sitting
of stringed Indian
In this capacity he
Dakshinamiirti.
known
known
is
the Vinadhara-
as
As a yogi and
philosopher, he
as Vyakhyana-Dakshinamurti, etc.
the images of
the most
musical instruments.
is
Besides
many others
To sum up,
aspects)^
the yogic,
musical
and
aspects.
philosophic
Let
me now
each
146
SAMHlRAMtJRTIS.
to
are
Linga-
pw^a^^ia-
m^tL*"'**'**^*"
said
known
wise also
as Sati, the
first
the
fire,
because
Lord
Himavan, began
to
yogi.
who
could destroy
this
demon would be a
god
of
was deputed
to
create
lascivious
Kama
approached
flames of
fire
the same, he
Kama
in
and reduced
fell
Kama
to ashes
but
all
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
At the
entreaties of Eati,
believed
it is
Siva
took
place
that
Kama
In the Tamil
in
village
called
Tiruk-
district.
and
Purva-Edranagama.
the
Suprabhedagama
Siva
should
be
of
of that of
Siva
he should
his
He
is
consort Kati.
company
bow made
his dear
of
companions, Devabhaga
(?)
and Vasanta
spring season).
The names
Manmatha
are
of the five
The Kdrandgama
calls these,
148
(or the
arrows of
Tdpinl,
SAMHSRAMURTIS.
with
a,
jata-maJiuta
his
he should have a
terrific
hands
be shown as held in
(or
the
maining
hand held
hand
left
sucJii-hasia.
similar to
In
two out
arm should
and the
banner-wise)*
in
the pose
known
other respects,
all
in
look
Yoga Dakshinamurti.
it
as
re-
the
should be
This authority
Manmatha should
and that he may be
The banner
of
names
of the
in the
EaranUgama
companions
as
of
Manmatha
Manmatha
fish.
The
are given
The
U9
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
asura by Siva and his wearing the skin of the
elephant as his garment
2 Gajasurasamharamurti.
^.j^g
is
found in
the linga
is
named
Krittivasesvara in
of this linga,
Another version
elsewhere.*
of
is
already given
the story
is
is
that
also noticed
So,
an elephant
clothing
is
common to
district called
all.
Valuvur
elephant-skin
as his
associated, in the
is
killed
Tamil
of the
image
Gajasurasamharamurti
*
t
Volume
150
are
I. p.
of
Gajahamurti
found
379.
II, p. 114.
in
the
SAMHAKAMUETIS.
Amsumadbhedagama, the
In the former it
Saivdffamas.
Silparatna and
is
other
image
should hold the paa, and the other the skin of the
elephant, while the two left hands should hold the
If,
hands should
right
^amaru and
carry
the
left
pose,
irUula,
of
hands should be
another catching
held
hold of
in
one of
the vismaya
The
lifted
tail
on the
of
The
of the other
should be visible
might
any
artistic
The skin
adorned with
made
of silk
all
and
The image
of Siva
should be
151
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
instance
this
is
This
deep red.
one
is
AmkumadhTiedagama
In the
right
the
of
;
the
hands
of
and
in the last
elephant
shield, a
left leg of
while in the
left
The
On
the
left side of
the Gajasurasamharamurti
Skanda
in
her lord.
To
samharamurti
five
Of these, the
given.
Gajasura-
first
piece of sculpture,
to
is
Mysore Province.
a large
number
remains
'pasa,
it is
of
In
this,
from what
two
of
of Siva is
On
PLATE XXX.
Xr
:.S'(:^M^r
*w*^
'T^^ -^^^\
^_-.-^-^<.
dlf-"'.-'
.^-
'-<
"J'^'ft
^-T--
>^
^'
SAliHiEAMtJETIS.
left are
On
the four-faced
is
Brahma
the
playing on
Brahma
is
a four
sruJc
armed
person,
who cannot be
To
called, jantha.
the
left of
Siva
is
flute,
there
standing to the
is
left
drum
standing Vishnu
and gada
left
while
padma
Vishnu, which
is
also not
carved as to
the
At the
left.
bull
and Bhringi, to
The head
head of the
of Siva is orna-
is
garland
is
also
large
a similar
number
This
is
a unique piece
The second
illustration,
PL XXXI,
is
taken
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
the destruction of Gajasura. Thebronze,of which the
illustration is a photograph, is a
artistic
its
of
The very
execution.
round
is
ajatamandala
in
skin, another
trisula,
durddhura flowers
The image
shaped
artistically
in the fourth
of the left
(?).
is
is
held
Each
Below the
One
skull,
left
tanJca
surrounding the
moon and on
of
arms
of the terrific
head
its size
remarkable piece of
shown
hands of Siva.
as
is
the head
on the
top.
hanging in
On either
side of
The
third
illustration
is
fig.
1,
PI.
XXZII,
PLATE XXXI.
Gajaaura-samhara-murti.
Bronze
Valuvur.
PLATE
XXXII.
155.
SAMHARAMtJETIS.
elephant's skin, while the fourth
As
sucliihasta pose.
held in the
is
is
is
tied
up a
skull
of Siva is
Jcundalas, haras,
As
and the
left
is
in the
udarabandha,
image
of Valuvur,
held up bent
is
an utJcutiJcasana in
in the figure of
ttangudi (see
PI.
fig. 2,
Towards the
child
Tiruchchenga-
left of
awe
at Siva.
The Tiruchchengat-
Darasuram image;
is
almost
in his right
hands Siva holds the damaru, the pasa, the ula and
the elephant's skin; one of the
left
is
it is
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
The
fifth
that of
is
Halebidu.
at
the
first
illustration,
this
number
of
the
Jchadga,
vajra,
aiikusa,
such as
objects
tanka ghanta,
sarpa,
dlianus and
kapala
As
in
the
sculpture
leg of Siva is
made
The
of
Amritapura
to rest
left
is
prabhd-mandala.
On
right
of the
elephant
the right of
is
left of
slightly
kept like a
skin.
the
skin of the
the
and on
Century A.D.
his chest.
The
Kalarimurti.
to
have a large
life
limited to
PLATE
^/~%
XXXIII.
.jtr
/,
Mi
Gajasura-satnhara-DQurfci.
Stone
Halebid.
SAMHAEAMtJBTIS.
sixteen years.
and
in
The
risJii
who was
with
sorrow,
the
at
for
began to be weighted
sixteenth
year of his
The news
of the short
die.
duration of his
He
life,
all
import-
call
emissaries
soul
to
for
temple.
and carry
possible
its
it
them
of death,
to their master
to
do
so,
life of
not finding
it
person to conduct
He
all
Brahmana
lad,
realis-
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
mortals and went away the wiser for his visit to
one
Yama
in
it is
is
known as
many
have
the
its
descriptions
of
a temple.
In the Tamil
district.
The image
left leg
Kalarimurti.
the agamas.
all
Siva in
seen perpetuated in
often
is
The
believed to
country
is
of
Kalarimurti
is to
The figure
of Siva should
toe
have
image has
If the
varada pose
of
if
the other
or be held in the
to be kept raised
front
left
is
The
in
SAliHARAMUETIS.
front,
at the height of
The back
hand
left
ring-finger of the
hand should be
raised as high as
If,
them the
left
hands
is
respectively.
also red,
Yama
The
though
in the
all
vismaya
colour of
of the coral,
ornaments.
One
this
with fear
Kala must
is
from
attempting to steady
also be looking
up
to Siva for
his grace.
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
kicking
Yama and
the
left
the ground.
of
hands the
left
remaining hand
The
eyes of Siva
neck of Yama.
represented as fallen
with
He
tears.
down
is
required to be
should have red eyes, red hair both on the head, the
The height
tusks also.
and
Yama
should reach up
his figure
must be shaped
of
There
is
in
the
figure of
Yama
In
fallen
prostrate on
the
ground.
this
of Siva should
The body
of
Siva
should
be
PLATE XXXIV,
Dasavatfu-a Cave
Ellore
SAMHiRAMtJRTIS.
the fear due to the approach of death
indicate
of Siva
must be
trident
this rule is
in
which are
which
meant
that
to hold the
down-turned
Evidently,
The
wanted.
meant
articles are
For example,
who stand
is
hands
all
of
it
the
bow and
the arrow;
Vinadhara Dakshinamurti, we
in the kataka
pose.
Five
The
illustrations
first of
these, PI.
XXXIV,
is
a drawing of the
from the
liiiga,
is
in front
represented as issuing
of
which
is
seen
the
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
One
the
left
which
trident
The
hands
of the right
aimed
at the
hand
remaining right
abdomen
The
Siva
the
hip
left
hand
on
rests
Yama.
of
of
leg of
right
is
left leg is
represented as kicking
adorned with
of ^iva is
Yama.
The person
Yama
many ornaments.
down
left
hand he
still
The second
Markandeya.
is
is
also
almost similar in
XXXV,
its
details to the
prais-
The image
before
of Siva issues
which
is
him with
The
of a lihga
Yama
lost.
The
action of
third
illustration,
Fig.
Herein the
treatment
of
162
2, PI,
XXXV,
Tanjore
district.
the subject
is
quite
PLATE XXXV.
PL\TE XXXVI.
Id
SAMHAEAMtJETIS.
Siva
different.
is
him
his
of the fallen
left leg
resting
its
The next
of
Fig.
illustration,
1,
XXXVI,
PI.
is
and
is
described above.
up
to kick
Yama, whereas
is
Tiruchchengattangudi
Yama
in the latter,
is
while
sculpture,
the
Yama
in
in
the
foot is so placed.
left
on the
of
is
it
purpose
on the body
leg of Siva is
The head
left
of
left
Siva in the
PL XXXVI,
of a
is
The
is
seen
thigh.
The other
kicking
Yama
W.
D., Madura.
emerging from a
leg is buried
leg is lifted
up
in
up
to the
the act of
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
sculptured as a separate piece).
On
who
metals and who
The
story
is
rishis.
The
is
given
having
Brahma
after a
multt^""*^**^*
into one
and
The asura
arrow.
castles,
architect
Maya
built
on the earth
them with
the gods.
Indra attacked
He
told
laksha.
164
SAMHAEAMtJETIS.
killed
the task
demanded
to
killing the
of
of
them one
to
kill
powers (saMi)
half of their
impossible
Mahadeva then
asuras.
otherwise,
as,
was
They
demons.
strong
those
it
arrow, Agni
Mahadeva made
his
bow-string.
With
its
the
Yama
and
barb
its feather.
bow and
Vedas his
Brahma became
Savitri
his charioteer.
The
by
Mahadeva
three
castles
much
older accounts
Brahmanas.
stated that
For instance,
of the Vajasaneyi
is
Samhita
the asuras
in
the
of the
commentary
Yajurveda,
being defeated
and
it is
by the
Similarly in
the
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY,
aatapatha-Brahmana we are
and
The
themselves
destroying
them Indra
is
For
Soma as
The Taittinya
The
the lowest being made of
iron, the
No
all
less
is
authorities.
dagama
alone
many
points of
let
me
adhere to
SAMHAEAMUETIS.
its descriptions.
In the
first
image
kept a
form
of Siva
while the
little in front,
One
of this aspect of
should be
one,
left
slightly
of the right
hands
bow
one
of the left
and raised up
of the
fist
of
The thickness
is set.
little finger of
Siva;
in a horizontal position
bow ought
to
the thickness
fit
It
may have
The
of
wood or metal.
is
and
of
its
thickness of the
be
string
bow
bow.
The
figure should be
and
all
the
left,
ornaments should be
left of
the krishna-mriga.
of
red colour.
On
of the Devi.
167
to
the above
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
have three eyes
the makara-hundala
ornament
has to
it
even two
bow and
may have
to
This
adorned by none.
be
any
we have perhaps
infer that
of
four hands or
The body
the arrow-
of Siva should be in
foot
purusha,
exactly
the
left
of
Tripurantakamurti the
of
while
the
rest
similar
to the
leg
Siva
of
description
the
of
is
first.
should
standing
kept
be
In the
fourth
it
is
the
that
stated
foot
left
this is evi-
for,
as
it is, it
The
front right
and
left
hands
of
The
and
the
left
tail
of the
arrow
in
mriga
legs should be
latter
or
dhanus
respectively.
left of Siva.
168
In
all
There
these
SAliHiEAMUETIS.
five
In the sixth form, Siva as the Tripurantakamurti should have eight arms, in the four right
ones of which there should be the bana, the paraiu,
the kha^ga and the vajra
left
the
There
bhaiiga)
beauty of the
general
figure.
to the
{ati-
carry the bana, the chakra, the ula, the taiika and
left
hands
khetaka
respectively.
to be represented as
His right
whereas the
of the
is
left
chariot.
tied
It is
up with a
is
rope,
not quite
intelli-
mukula should be
and Brahma, the charioteer
169
i2
of the chariot,
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
should be seated in the middle of this mukula,
and padma-pdsa
in
(?)
one
who
down from
got
arrow temporarily to
the
and
Vishnu returned
after
to the arrow.
The common
way under
The
chariot should
air.
all
of
red
left
side.
is
Four
illustrations are
The
murti.
first
two are
given of Tripurantaka-
to be found in Ellora
and
of
Dasavatara cave, PL
XXXVII.
is
in the
In
this,
left
one, behind
which h
is
in the
about to destroy.
170
at,
is
He
seems to
PLATE XXXVII.
Tripurantakamurti
Stone.
Daa'avatara Cave
Ellora.
PLATE
XXXVIII.
Tripurantakamurbi
Stone
Kailasa Temple
Bllora.
PLATE XXXIX.
Tripurantakamurfci
Stone
Conjeevaram.
PL\TE
:Tripurantakamurti
Stone
XL.
Madura.
SAMHAEAMtJBTIS.
have had ten
arms
still
remain
shield, a
third
arm
is
those that
The second
photograph
of
is
yoked
the
left
the sculpture to
the right
quiver of arrows.
it.
this,
the
Siva has
Brahma is
In front
is
be found in the
In
is
yoked to
two horses.
On
to
PL XXXVIII,
illustration,
Brahma
bow.
Tripurantakamurti are
of
PI.
XXXIX,
Siva
is
As
The
last
Brahma
illustration, PI.
the
is
the
in the
XL,
is
the reproduc'
beautiful
sculpture
Sundaresvara temple
at
Madura,
which
of
a mythical
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
follows
Nrisimhavatara, destroyed
Vislin,u, in his
causing
m-orti.
annoyance to the
great
Even
gods.
who was
of the
attitude,
tants of the
terrific
to the inhabi-
world.
He
for
at
making
tail
Sarabha approached
the
dreadful noise
have
it,
came
or,
as
some accounts
Vishnu
and
Siva, to his
own
thenceforth to be
known
as
Siva came
Sarabhesamurti or
Simhaghnamurti
Sarabhesamurti
gama
as follows
of a bird of golden
described in
is
The body
hue
it
of
Kamika-
the
Sarabhesa
is
that
tail
the body
saiIhSbam-Betis.
human
being
wearing upon
its
head a hirlta-makuta.
There
Sarabhesa
appearance.
is
shown
to be
as carrying
The
terrific
figure of
of a
human
The Srltatvanidhi
description.
somewhat
different
of Sara-
gives a
chaJcra, kahti,
left
hands ought
won,
achieved
all
all
is
be
will
destroyed,
tongue
enemies
moon and
subterranean
of this aspect of
the
fire
fire
known
that his
as
the
Kala
and
the belly,
Mrityu;
Kalagni
the thighs,
strength
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Mahavayu.
Sarabha who
is
soul
is
Hari
is
or
it
capable of granting
is
moksha.
An
in Vol.
Sarabhesamurti
illustration of the
I,
PI.
B, Introduction.
It is a
Sarabha
bronze image
Tribhuvanam
In this piece
hand
of
is
sculpture
left
With the
Nrisimha, who
in
mriga and
given
is
arms
is
arms.
The
following account
is
Brahma
6.
Brahmasira-
t,
Kudra
schchiiedakamurti.
off of
by Siva.
and
Brahma
addressing
Kapali, asked
him
created
him
as
to protect the
world.
cut
off
thumb-nail
would not
Brahma with
his
left
off
from
requested by Eudra to
it.
tell
174
samhAeamurtis.
the head stuck up in his hand, for which
rid of
Brahma
prescribed to
Kapalika
life for
Rudra repaired
Yajnopavlta
of
to Mahendragiri
made
in the. jatamaJcuta
a skull
the
At the end
and wearing an
skull tied
on
his
made
up as an orna-
filled
earth
Then
oS.
fall
ment
of the
visiting
places
all
of twelve years
pilgrimage.
of
he arrived at Varanasi,
Kapala-mochana.
in the
somewhat
Eurmapurana.
Brahma
Brahma
as to
different version is
found in the
who was
arrogated
it
rishis
to himself.
asked
upon
Brahma and
this there
Siva.
origi-
ensued a
Even though
Brahma would
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
was
discernible
By
disrespect.
ofi
then
Siva
head
that fifth
of
to
Brahma
The
chhedakamurti
The
found
is
the
in
Sritatvanidhi.
eyes, four
and a
arms
In
one.
the
hand
right
are
of
whose
left
left
the vajra
It should be
^ula.
draped in
of tiger's skin.
The Siva-purana
rupa or the
to be
the
calls
full
intellect is
darkened by
maya
to
worship
it.
Bhairava
is
so
called
because he
is terrific (bhlshai^a).
trembles before
him
and
He is also known
of death)
Amarddaka because he
kills
SAMHSEAMtETIS.
he swallows the sins of his bhaktas or devotees.
He
is
The
description of Bhairava
is
Vishnudharmottara.
It
Bhairava.
(a)
found in the
there
is
nostrils,
He
of skulls.
ments
ments
The complexion
as the rain-cloud
skin
and
his
of
Bhairava
is
dark
He
weapons.
Bhairava has
bhairava,
The
many
ed below.
Bhairava.'^*
Jchatvaiiga
and a snake
while one of
same colour
upon
this
form
of
Bhairava
177
23
is
Meditation
said to secure
all
the
HINDU ICONOGBAPHY.
So
Bupamandana
given in the
description found in
the
description
the following
the
is
VatuJca-BhairavaJcalpa.
hands the
in his
kapd,la
He
should carry
damara and
the
Vatuka-Bhairava
by a host
Four
arms as given
of
of
which
is
Vatuka-Bhairava
are
in the
Indian image of
sula, the
naked.
demons.
illustrations
none
given, in
of
all
It
made of small
bells, besides
its
Round
the loins
is
is
its
the
To
of
Bhai-
of the
Chalukya
style, figs. 1, 3
178
&
as also
2,
the
PL XLII,
Plate
Mli.
Bbairava
Stone
Fattisvaram,
PLATB
XLll.
a
ID
W
3
T3
K.
Ali^
O 3
= -i
IS
>
SAMHAKAMUBTIS.
They
the hhadga, the paia and the
carry the
all
have
Jcapala,
and
is
Museum
of the
fig. 3, PI.
ana
or
mark on the
these two
pisachas.
as a IdncJih-
and
The sword
the Madras
Museum
its
in the
hand
(fig. 2,
PL XLII),
image of
of the
point downwards.
is
a short
All these
Svarnakarshana
Bhairava should
an
have
He should
be
gods.
aspect of Bhairava
with masterful
authoritativeness.
filled
He
with
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
We
four
difier-
named
Euru,
ent forms,
Bhih-amr
Asitaiiga,
forms
these
is
divided
further
Each one
into
eight
all.
Visalaksha,
Marttanda,
in-
Modaka-priya,
Svachchanda,
Vighna-santushta, Khechara
Sacharachara.
and
trlsula,
consists of Kroda-
should
rubies
all
be
group
is
The
pure white
colour
;
they
aiihuka,
looks.
They should
SAllHARAMUETIS.
In the group headed by Krodha are included
Abhrarupa,
Pingalekshana,
Dharapala,
Kutila,
All these
of
sword and
khetaJca, a long
Jcha^ga,
-paraku.
all to
Kapala,
is
(a kind of club)
Their colour
khetaJca, the
parigha
and bhindipala.
Hasticharmambara-
Sasibhushana,
and are
all to
same weapons
consists
Bhishana,
of
Mukhara and
same weapons
They
Asthira.
all
carry the
and are
of
red colour.
In the group
of
all
these are to be
and
to carry
XLIII,
represents
the
Atiriktanga
181
aspect
PI.
of
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY,
Bhairava and
is
cave-temples of Ellora.
pose.
his
Though
the
and on
of blood-thirsty goblins
is
his
his
right stands a
hands held
in the anjali
skill.
is
form
Siva assumed
of
at
Virabhadra-
of
purana.
of the
murti.
On
The
Daksha.
n
following account
Daksha occurs
in
Eurma-
the
In spite
pleased with
his
quarters.
On
his
-c
i.i
Daksha became
son-in-law,
and
another occasion
Daksha
to
wife
Siva's
dis-
returned
of the
to
Himavan
of Parvati.
she
daughter
Daksha
to be born as a
with
his
as his
own
as king
PLATE
XLIII
Atiriktanga Bhairava
Stone Panel
EUora.
samhAeamOrtib.
Prachetas and was performing a yaga at Gangadvara, but owing to the hatred he coneeived for
who had
behalf of Siva.
remonstrated
neglect
cursed
Siva
of
all
against
those
but
in
who were
vain.
Then Dadhicha
much
He
counted.
presence of
invoked
there
the
also
was
requesting
yd,ga that
Siva.
then
acceded to
of
He
Virabhadra
brightness the
fire
end of an seon
yaga of Prachetas.
Parvati, in
Virabhadra,
Virabhadra
Bhadrakali and
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
cut
ofE
remain
in the
stiff
same
to
Chandra was
position.
Garuda had
to his senses
pleased with
the ganas
to flee for
and prayed
to
Daksha came
Siva, who became
life.
at
the
end
that
of
and
aeon
dis-
appeared.
An
Varahapurana.
of
Brahma
him
Daksha and
Daksha begot a
grand-children.
to create beings,
therefore created
Prajapatis.
found in the
Brahma
is
lot
of
six other
children
and
was sunk
of
in inactivity
animals
other gods
four species
came
to be heard
and
else before
This anger
fire
of his
number
of
and from
of
of
creation.
tongues of
this fire
came a
SAliHAEAMUETIS.
Brahma then
allotted to Siva
place in Kailasa.
of
hall
when
all
sacrifice.
the assembly,
made his
command. But he did not like Mahadeva being
seated when he entered the hall and so reviled
Mahadeva in very strong and highly objectionable
language alluding to his roaming in cemeteries and
other repulsive acts and cursed
Daksha began
of the gods.
sacrifice.
to perform the
the Brihaspatisava.
which
Sati,
the
He
her
Siva
seeing
him
to
sacrifice.
going to the
and
advised
sacrifice.
But she
185
24
her
not to persist in
persisted in going,
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
and, as
by
courtesy,
of
On
her father.
being
committed
treated with
scant
The
news
suicide.
who
the
Bidden by
Siva, this
of
hair
sacrifice
submission to
to
Siva.
of
Virabhadramurti.
In the
gadd and
left
It
terrific face
with
fierce side
It should be
of the
wearing a garland
and should
By
the side of
Bhadrakali
also.
should be
there
goat's head,
On
the figures of
Daksha with a
somewhat
description of Virabhadramurti.
figure of
eyes,
different
tusks,
skulls
of scorpions,
186
fire,
of bells
side
and
a yajnopavlta
PLATE XLIV,
mm
L.
Virabhadramurti
Bronze
Madras Museum.
Fig. 2.
Virabhadramurti
Stone
Tenkasi.
SAMHARAMUETIS.
and adorned with beautiful anklets
of snake,
it
sandals and
The
He
terrific.
The
image
believed to remove
is
cure people of
Two
all
of this
of a bronze
The
XLIV, is
Madras Museum
carried in
up
their ailments.
of Virabhadramurti.
its
all
setting
out.
The
It stands
figure
terrific
upon a
fig. 2,
on
pillar in the
mandapa
at Tenkasi
and
the
is of
In
hands,
one holds a
of the
remaining two
broken)
is
187
HINDU ICONOGBAPHY.
the p&ka, a round shield and an oblong one with a
beautiful device
it
on
it.
Virabhadra
tongues of flames.
is
standing upon
and
in
1, PI.
his wife
Angur
XLV,
found
and belongs
to the
Chalukya-Hoysala
It is to be
well.
represents Daksha-Prajapati
school
and
is
executed very
of a goat.
The Siva-purana
of the
earned Jalandhara.
emanated
The
fire
that
of
Tripurasuras was
named Jalandhara.
let
it.
When
body came
to the court of
his
maimed
when
Eahu
Plate xlv.
o
a
<a
PM
o
a
o
is
m
1
53
'3
tn
icS
OB
'^
c3
>
11:3
SAMHSEAMtJETIS.
the possession by devas of a
of riches
lot
induced
lot,
Jalandhara
meanwhile
dhara to ask
for
any boon he
desired.
consort Lakshmi, to
come and
The asura
Vishnu and
his
become
hostile to the
asura and
Narada
kill
him.
to kindle
For
enmity
fittest
partner in
despatched
Thus
battle
immediately
messengers to Siva
to
to
and
to Jalandhara
life
flight
by the
of very pretty
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
Gandharvas and Apsarasas and made them sing and
dance before Siva, who became absorbed in the
his hands.
Seeing
who was
come
and proceeded
of Siva
to
to her help.
out immediately.
the
Vishnu that
by another.
killed
a battle ensued
ended the
The
life of
is
given as follows
the
is
red
The
colour of
in the right
in
Thus
haramurti
terrific
sea.
left
On
his
head should
SAMHARAMtJETIS.
be a dishevelled jatabhara containing in
crescent
He
ears,
it
the
should be adorned
on a pair
The posture
of
Siva
move
rest
of sandals.
quickly.
Jalandhara
and
arms,
(bracelets)
be
and
adorned
all
with
ornaments.
other
Icankat^a
Jcirlta,
He
must
On
The
sanachakra.
yellow.
Malla in
sect of people
there
Mallari Siva.
who were
They
Supreme Being.
them that
made
was the
ofiering
of the
dog,
of shells.
origin of the
puja to him as
Sankaracharya proved to
and barking
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
them and other
like
characteristic
them
and converted
is
referred to above
is
of
Brahmanas.
The
customs
is
Mallari
of flowers.
of
In his
snakes and he
The orna-
upon the
a
lips of Siva.
damaru and a
Jchadga.
His vehicle
is
to be a
The pauranic
of the great
sJavad^^mSrtt
l^^s
demon Andhakasura
pages 379-382
in
Volume
I.
To
illustrate
on
the
which belong
Bombay
Presidency.
on
XLV
Pis.
reproduced,
to the Cave-temples of
the
PLATE
V
first-
;-
-, ^
Andhakasuravadhamurti
^-
XLVI.
-I
PLATE
XLVII.
Andhaka3uravadhamurti
Kailasa Temple
[To face page 193]
Stone Panel
EUora.
SAliHARAMtJETIS.
one school, bear a strong family likeness; the
have
artists
is
it
therefore sufficient
which
is
of
trikula, at the
end
of
The goddess
it
In
Yogesvari,
down.
hands to
down from
hands
trickle
is
of
seen
two other
in the shape of a
her body
jataman^ala.
represented as
surrounded by a
On
is
is
is
is
the
bird, sitting
HINDU ICONOGBAPHY.
The
Kail3,sa at
workmanship
is
must
of the period to
it
hand
194
of
which
it
belongs
SIVA.
SIVA.
are pre-
ll.Aghoramurti.
Aghoramurti.
mi
Lingapurana.
priest
The
who has
description of
is
given in the
attained mantra-
is
a temple dedicated to
the Saptamatrikas (or the seven mothers), and construct five Tiundas (receptacles for fires), one
The fourteenth
of Fhalguni
those
is
known
who worship
tithi of the
as
On
on each
the four-
the ceremonies
Agbora-chaturdasi
it
is
said
that
197
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
ought to be begun and continued to the eighth day in
the succeeding bright half of the next month. During
this period the priest
have
mantra-siddhi, should
also attained
disciples,
who
sit
in
disciples
the
four
homa
quarters, before
Then
the enemy
they should
king, place
it
make a wooden
it
of
in one of the
effigy
with the
brought from
fire
The
who is
of
following
is
sula,
figure
and khadga
He
The
in the hands
the neck of
ments composed
of
side tusks.
terrific in
appearance
goblins.
198
ilYk.
work he
is
is
is
known
as the Aghorastramurti
In this
and
it is
up
for
granting
riches.
The
side tusks.
He
dark.
is
with garlands
of red flowers,
daggers
of short
scorpions.
is
ornaments
with
set
(khadgamala)
a third of
his
with
it,
Jchadga,
about to charge
third description is
varatnaJcara.
According to
it
the
{gJiania
?).
jatU-makuia and in
vetdla,
Aghora has a
on the head
crescent moon.
is
He
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
kunda, ankusa, ahshamala, khatvanga smipara^u;
(shield), tanka,
kavacha
lily,
This Aghoramurti
is
An image
of Kala.
believed to grant
all
of the
protection
to its votaries.
described as
is
body
garments
all
red.
The
countenance.
is
blue
and
colour of his
that
of
the
Two photographs,
figs.
and 2 on
PI.
XL VIII,
of
them
image
is
Tirukkalukkunram
Both
first
at Pattisvaram.
in
PLATE
XLVIII.
at
03
o
a
o
OS
IS
a
lO
<3
M
S
|,:;;,^ua^
The head
kapcila, the
is
SIVA.
its
terrific
An
figure.
the prayers
13.
Iffiahakala
Brahmanas,
the
of
-l-u
appeared on the spot and with a
with Mahakaii.
1.1.
i.
ashes.
his consort
It is
bracing
The
colour of
Mahakala
is
black.
coat.
mdnda
braJi-
His sight
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
must
itself
upon a simhasana.
Mahakala, swallower
of the
He should
also be
202
life
on her devotees.
ANUGRAHAMURTIS.
ANUGEAHAMUETIS.
some
Let
of the
me
is
said to be a
Anugraha-
anugrahamurtis
of Siva.
also
Chandesanu-
Manni
.,
there lived
grahamurti.
of the
-,
a pious
and learned
was going
assaulting
to the school, he
brutally
saw a cowherd
Incensed at the
From
and
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
it
in
vessels,
set
up lihgas made
sand and
of
tely repaired
to
thus often
and
mounds of sand.
repeated, made one of
The complaint
the rest on
the villagers go
ferred
and
see that
boy, in
it
was
offering
Forthwith
what
his
On this complaint
to
He
ap-
by
Vicharasarman.
On
seeing
the
mound
of
son
ANUGEAHAMtJETIS.
woke up from
his reverie
his axe
^iva
who was
Vichara-
fell,
him
him
of his
name
of
the
Chan-
^iva
ofEerings
vara, the
and
tied
embraced him
ganas and
the leg of
off
that thenceforth he
to him,
would be in loco-parentis
(Siva) he
for himself
grace.
his
consort
his
of
his
bhedagama.
grace
described in the
his right
and the
left
Amkumad-
as in the case of
But
is
as offering to
to
the
in the varada
of
left
pose
Chandesa.
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
Siva; the colour of Chandesa
The UttarahamikS,gama
is
golden
yellow.
and
Uma
who with
his right
tying
it
of the figure of
thigh,
of
Siva and
it
Chandesa may be up
should be
made
mouth
to the knee,
that
of
in accordance
The
measurement.
adhama-daha-tala
hand
The height
Chandesa.
left
of
with the
Purva-
practically
Four pictures
The
first fig. 1,
PL XLIX,
In this
is
seen Siva
seated Chandesa.
one
is
tying
it
of
Chandesa.
and
is of
the
first
left
front
This
Chola period
A.D.
208
PLATE XLIX.
ANUGRAHAMURTIS.
The
original of
PI.
XLIX
at
Conjeevaram.
right
is
raised seat.
clear
is
fig. 2,
In this Siva
while the
leg,
which
He
one
left
standing on his
is
is
resting
upon a
it
is
not quite
To
down
fallen
The
on the ground
left
hand held
is
the father of
in the
vismaya
pose.
sculpture
in a highly
is
figs. 1
and
2,
Pl.L, are of
gopura in front
of the
Sthanunathasvamin
pillar in
the front
of
Siva
murti^'^^'^^''^'
Parana.
On
conquer
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
certain asuras,
and prayed
To
daily.
Vishnu
of
at
are always
compared
him with
secreted
which
his eyes
devotion of Vishnu
that
he
This fact
in his possession.
the
test
(Jcamala-ldchana)
to lotuses,
in offering
of
to
had
Siva
devotion
his
which,
is
also alluded to in
the Mahdbharata.
The
eyes,
arms,
a pacific
appearance, and
The
hang down.
left
should
leg
seat,
the
while the
left
ones
mriga.
prabhdtnandala and a
of
kirascliakra.
Siva
On
is
to be a
the
left of
Brahma
should be standing.
210
PLATE
LI.
'-0
oj
-a
a-
Oo
<D
o
ai
g
TO
>
PLATE
ig.
1.
Chaiidelanugrahamurti
Madura.
Stone
Fig. 2.
Chandesanugrahamurti
L.
Stone
Suobindram.
ANUGRAHAMUETIS.
folded in the anjali pose, should be worshipping or
In this work
it
manner
puja
of
as
stated
left of
^iva
and the
be seen presenting
is
6iva should
(a
all
ornaments.
In two
in the anjali
pose.
Two
illustrations of
reproduced.
The
first
Vishnvanugrahamurti are
these,
of
PI. LI,
fig.
1,
Siva
is
remaining
left
in the
of his left
seat is seen
hands he
is
Vishnu kneeling
with
211
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
other
left
is
The second
photograph.
is
remaining lotus
last
is
illustration, fig. 2,
the Minakshi-
sculpture found in
of a piece of
PL LI,
In
it,
Siva and
Nandikesvara
is
Adhikara-Nandi
Nandi's tenure
to
to the
is
Nandikesvara or
grlhamTrti^*''"'
is
it.
an important adjunct
coming
who
of life
When
on earth was
over a portion of his ganas, and complete exemption from old age
and
pain.
He
came a duplicate
arms.
of Siva,
be-
At once he
upon Nandi.
Jatodaka.
It
began
to
flow
and sprinkled
as
the
river
Nandi thenceforth
as her
own
212
son.
She
also smelled
ANUGRAHAMtJETIS.
the top of the head of Nandi*
flow from her breast and
head
of
Nandi
name
the
in three spouts
fall
Trisrotas.
became a
Nandi out
then
river
named Vrishadhvani,
still
on the
river
of joy
to
under
bellowed
to a
rise
more pleased
own golden
seeing that
and Jambunadi.
where
all
named Svarnodaka
rivers
place
^lately after he
was restored
by placing on his
head
of
see Vol.
an elephant.
I,
pp. 36-39).
to
life
shoulders the
Ad
be seated with
his
children.
213
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
coQsort Parvati.
hands
in the
be
the corresponding
left
of
hand should be
shown
The
in the
"Vighnesvara
f^iva
The colour
should be
on the
left
of Siva is to be black
ornaments on
all
and be resting
his person.
Near him
left
and there
the
hand
left
Curiously enough,
it
is
in
the
and
flower
varada
pose.
leg
one hanging.
left
Vighnesvara,
of
gg^j.
gucCCSSfully
Kauravas.
gift
of the
Vanaparian
The
weapon by Siva
of
the
is
against
the
account of
the
narrated in
the
Mahabliarata
thus
Arjuna
to
him
ANUGEAHAMtJRTIS.
the powerful pakupatastra, went north to the
Hima-
austerities
pleasing
aware
already
rishis
were
of
matter
The
^iva.
to
Siva.
Siva being
of the
Just
that
at
of a
moment
an asura in the
form
Arjuna
arrow
against
but
it,
the
Jcirata
disputed
first
to
aim
claim of the
at.
hirdbta,
it.
which the
at the
end
senses, he
and
fell
latter
fell
exhausted.
at his feet
Siva in his
for
and was
fit
to employ,
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The Kiratarjunamurti
described as having
is
He
head.
is
adorned with
all
His colour
He
red.
is
is
Arjuna
is
bd,na,
to be seen
left.
held in
the
anjali
His head
pose.
should be
all
ornaments.
The
Two
first
to be found in
In this
SriSailam.
seen
is
Siva
(See PI.
LH,
is
figs. 1
and
2),
described in the
The
Pasupatastra
stiff
hair
and
fierce
it
terrific faces
with awful
moustache,
all
it is
terrific
lending
aspect
PLATE
LII.
CO
a
o
02
60
<n J.
:o .^,
00
l-H
ANUGRAHAMtJETIS.
In the four hands there should be the
haMi, the mudgara, the sankha and the Jchadgaof Siva.
Ravana, king
of
On
his
way he came
to Saravana,
He
griham^tL*'^"'
much more
the place in
ascended
of
the
which he saw
garden
pleasant
But when
move any
it
further.
At
it
would not
Ravana met
this place
able to
move
further, told
Ravana
that
Mahadeva
at the
Nandikesvara,
who
like
himself in
Ravana
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
determined to pluck up the mountain Kailasa, from
its
and began
tain
it,
to Hft
He was
up.
it
it
able to
move
trembled and
Uma
the real
Siva, learning
lord.
and clung
to her
of his foot,
which
fixed
down
his own
Ravana underneath
Ravana
it.
seeing
propitiate
whom
him return
given the
to
Lanka.
Because he
cried,
LIV
to
third
The
and second.
to be
of
sculpture
of
it,
LIII
The
especially the
admirably
first
one
in
Pis.
is
India.
first
illustra-
which
of
he was
name Ravana.
and
let
fright
worked
218
extant
in
each image in
their
of
is
moulding
many
a figure
out.
In
this
group,
PLATE
LIU.
Eavananugraliamiirti
[To face page 218]
Stone Panel
Ellora.
PLATE
LIVi
H
p
Hi
Ol
o
a
o
&
PLATE
LV.
Eavananugrahamuiti
Stone
Belur,
ANUGRAHAMURTIS.
Siva and Parvati are seated upon the mountain
Kailasa
the artist
manner represented
tional
conven-
has in the
as a pile of rhomboidal
pieces.
own
which
attendants
and two
female attendants of
little
Below
attitude.
Ravana,
of
the Kailasa
mountain
the
His posture
hill.
is
seen
be
to
to up-root
suggestive of the
Parvati, in
body
built
of Siva,
and is seen in
who
his turn
is
frightened consort.
The second panel which is found in the socalled Dhumar Lena Cave, is almost similar to the
above described sculpture, but utterly lacks the
spirit
and realism
The other
of the former.
differ-
of
The
is
sculp-
Chennakesavasvamin temple
at Belur.
It is a
Hoysala
style.
219
is
of
most
charac-
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
is
so
number
a large
sorts of animals,
On
snake.
mandapa
all
and
in
finely
carved
are seated
rounded by a
praising
the
of
it
him.
lift
up the
He
has a
him by
Siva.
220
NR1TTAML3RTIS.
NEITTAMUETIS.
we have
SIVA,
already said,
is
a great master
He was
often dancing
great expert.
also
he was
and
in the
in a
Saivagamas
it is
of
modes
of
dances of Siva.
tinctly
which
that
is
is
all
and eight
The Ndtya-sdstras
in the
of
dis-
case
of
the
former,
It is very curious
Sanskrit
as they
are
found in the
them.
These
sculptures and
223
the texts
are
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Madras Epigraphist's Annual
reproduced in the
Eeport
for 1913-14.
Of these the
first
variety
in the
The
dandahasta or
itself.
either in a vessel or
The
front
right
of
the
in
On
the
is
given on page 23 in
it
is
NRITTAMtBTIS.
The
the nahhisutra.
left leg
On
it.
should be
lifted up,
right leg
and kept
and
arJca flowers,
grinning
on the
issue
human
side.
left
on either
and stand
skull
From
this
tied
jatamakuta should
either
The body
circle.
horizontally or arranged
of Siva
in a
on
all
toes except
should
face
be
smiling.
The
rest of the
of
tiger's skin.
is
trodden on by
Siva should have his head on the right side and his
legs
on the
in colour
all
He
should be black
his fingers in
On
the
left of
manner described
Uma-sahita-Chandrasekharamurti.
226
S9
in
HINDU ICONOGBAPHY.
The measurements
of
the position
the
of
This
the
is
found in the
first
detailed descrip-
tion, of
^iva, according to
objects
mentioned
above
The
description.
five to thirty,
one another.
The
plants.
brownish
half
colour
red.
should be
of
jdta,s
of
jatas
should
be
the
figure of
woman and
the
on
\>h.e
jatas on the
left side
Round
there
the neck of
should be
snakes,
made
of pearls,
another should be
composed
226
of
and a fourth
tiger's
claws
NEITTAMUETIS.
and beads, with a pendant
made
On
of a tortoise shell.
an upper garment
of tiger's skin,
On
his
left
earlobe there
and
bells
another
The
designs.
set
composed
of
of tiny
ornamental
The
milky- white.
in the chatus-
holding in his
left
all
other ornaments.
either the
risTii
Bhringi or Bhadrakali.
This dance,
trdisa.
eyes,
Tcaranda-makuta and
On
(?)
it is
said, is
known
as
leg,
Bhujahgakept higher
the dance
is
said
to be Bhujanga-lalita.
dance which
is
defined
is
as follows: one
227
leg
being bent in a
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
triangular fashion and lifted up while the body about
is
Abhinavaguptacharya, the
'
:
because in
as
is
called hhujangatrasa,
it
lifts
up
his leg
and appears
to be of
an unsteady
gait-
In
this,
in the
pose
is
JcataJca
pose
other
If the
freely
f ^^ Ti^lc^^
^rrf^g^^f
Tflf
^
t
Tf^^^
*R^:
^
JT^T
g^r^rfiicTq;
^^
jrl%fSrQ?^
*1^
5r^i55
"TcTT^
i^^jsj gf^-
?"!^1?^: T^
Wf ^
^^^
ffct
228
^SZ^Wf
JR5^^
#^^:
II
ifcT
^^H
t^-
NEITTAMUETIS.
the figure of the dancing 6iva there should be a
that
Tcurari,
garment
of
Siva should be a
agni in the
or flames
left
left
the
left
hands there
upper garment.
It further
in its
body.
The
all
first
form
Nataraja
in Southern India.
allotted to Nataraja
Sabha
or simply
these Sabhas
earliest
is
which
Sabha.
is
that at Chidambaram.
times Chidambaram
who
is
From
the
call it "
the temple
".
In
is,
in the temple at
229
Chidambaram
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
who were
They had
strongly ^aiva in their persuasions.
covered the Sabha with gold and hence it came to be
known as the Kanakasabhd (or the golden hall) and
the image of Nataraja as Kanakasabhapati. The
had been the family deity
Sabha
at
of the
of the
known
Pandyas
Cholas
Pandyas, had a
as the Bajata-
and
silver as the
was
regilt.
I,
of
(A.D. 908-948).
its
was
many
published there.
The
saint
Manikkavachaka spent
in
life
Siva at Chidambaram.
On
account
of
Chidambaram
230
such holy
is
clothed
nbittamGetis.
with extraordinary sanctity and mysticism, and
a good deal of philosophical significance
attri-
is
The
significance
of
the
dance
mystic
is
kumarasvami
in
beautiful article
to account
writing
by Dr. A. K. Ananda-
independently a very
which he contributed
to the 8id-
Since the
if
my
task
is
may
much
pleasure in
THE DANCE OF
"
The Lord
of Tillai's
performs
what's
SIVA.
my
dear ?"
Tiruvachagam, XII,
The cosmos
steps in
is
His repertory,
He
audience
231
himself
is
is
14.
Siva
different
actor
and
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
When
Everybody cometh
When
show
to see the
perties,
to
all of
these dances
is
more or
less
rhythmic energy:
of
Siva
is
the
Eros Protogonos
all
things,
one, for
we
lations,
ancient
dance
of the constel-
and
their interweaving
stars,
interchange
and
orderly harmony.
I do not
mean
interpretation of Siva's
minds
of those
who
most profound
danced in
first
frantic,
and
Aryan
hill-god, afterwards
motif in religion or
all
things to
all
art,
men
merged
in ^iva.
A great
it
yields to
own
men
hearts.
NSITTAMUETIS.
Whatever the
it
any
art or religion
can boast
of.
became
in
God which
Of the various
of the
Three Worlds
Him
all
:"
Brahma
Lakshmi begins a
and
all
song,
" Gandharvas,
Yakshas,
:"
Patagas,
Uragas,
and
all
is
In the pictures
of
this dance,
^iva
is
is
two-
clearly
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
indicated in their position of chorus.
is
no
So
far
There
of Siva is called
Bhairava or Virabhadra.
teries
It is
performed in ceme-
in
ten-armed form, dances wildly with Devi, accompanied by troops of capering imps.
of this
dance are
tures,
as
common amongst
Bllora,
at
Bhuvanesvara.
Eepresentations
ancient sculp-
Elephanta,
and
also
in
is
at
origin
who
holds
ground.
his
In
is
most
we have
the
Nadanta dance
of
Nata-
It is not
(T.A.G.),
234
am
figure of Siva
employed
in
NEITTAMUETIS.
Chidambaram
first
The
the Koyil-Puranam.
all,
no very
the dance,
direct connection
may
In the
heretical
legend,
after
be summarised as follows
Taraka dwelt multitudes of
:
forest of
risTiis,
Mimamsa. Thither
followers of the
accompanied by
Vishnu disguised
The
^esha.
which has
as a beautiful
were at
rishis
first
to violent
Him
Him
by means
was created in
;
wrapped
it
little
offerings,
A fierce
seized
it
and, with
and
a silken cloth.*
renewed their
however, Siva
like
He
about Himself
Undiscouraged by
neck
sacrificial fires,
of incantations.
and wreathed
seized
a garland.
Then He began
Him
at last a
about
to
His
dance
monster in
similar story
is
and these account for the elephant or tiger skin, which Siva
wears
235
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
Apasmarapurusha). Upon him the God pressed the
His
tip of
that
it
foot,
all
His
last
and prayed
Siva,
this mystic
dance
The dance
of the Universe.
baram
so,
rishis.
and
gods and
of
Tillai,
the centre
Siva in Chidam-
South Indian
Dance.
minor
details,
may
image
all
express one
fundamental
conception.
these
but
be,
of Sri
it
what
will
may
In his hair
skull,
and the
leaves.
woman's
in the left
toe-rings.
of
NEITTAMUETIS.
tightly fitting breeches,
and
He wears
also a flutter-
One
right
mudrd
one
The
right foot is
to
down
pressed
There
is
a lotus pedestal,
rarely
all sizes,
of glory,
if
The images
fire.
total height.
Even without
reliance
upon
literary references,
Fortunately, however,
of a copious
contemporary
we have the
difii-
assistance
which enables
literature,
Some
symbolism.
of
the
peculiarities
of
the
Such
are
and not
dance in particular.
cassia garland
the skull of
to the
fallen
the cobras
Brahma
the
the figure of
lost in
237
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
is
Uma
':
The drum
also, is a general
What
ficance.
then
it
is
as understood by Saivas
The dance
Our Lord
is
in fact, represents
{PanchaJcritya),
given in texts
The dance,
called
matter, and
is
is
viz.,
His
five activities
Samhara
(destruction, evolution), Tirobhava (veiling, embodiment, illusion, and also, giving rest,) Anugraha
dered,
are the
activities of
Brahma,
the deities
atrL-i ^io6r&)QuiTeo
^L-aSa(^LD
t
iBil.isjm
IB
iJaweiRiraaiT
QeOsnrQaieesii^^uj.
ivajndnabodham,
p.
74.
all
fills all
bodies
souls into
action,
know
ye
Compare Bokhart,
infuses
the
essence
and clearness into the dry wood, so has God done with man."
238
NEITTAMURTIS.
This cosmic activity
is
TJnmai VilahJcam,
mukti
is
from
protection
fire
proceeds
Here
It will be
to this lifted
We
Mummani
"
Kovai.
O my
Lord,
Thy hand
holding the
sacred
earth
Thy
lifted
souls.
created.
Thy sacred
foot,
lifted foot
It is
Thy
approach Thee.
Thy handiwork."
The
Darsana
following
verses
from
the
Tirukuttu
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
ninth tantra of Tirumular's Tirumantram, expand
the central motif further
"
His form
everywhere
is
all-pervading
is
His
Siva-Sakti
Chidambaram
is
dance
As Siva
and omnipresentj
is all
Everywhere
diva's
is
gracious dance
made
manifest.
"
His
dances
five-fold
are
in
saJcala
and
nishhala form,
His
five-fold
With His
This
"
is
grace
He
performs the
five acts.
those
who
in the court t
pass over
Mahamaya,
aneSQajiru-iru^i searsrrf&i^^iTi^d
A-eiflQcuiTim^d (^sueovu^Q^iuituf.
iSif.iuiSir^'SireOiS&r
iBiTi^peuLDUei)^Q^
euiresBeaiiuni^
iun<SiBir^Qe!ir.
2iQ
Maya and
NEITTAMUETIS.
And
''
His body
is
is
is
Muyalaka,
is
when
within.
self
Everywhere
the heart.
Thus
LDiTiL\LnjSieS
realised that
and the
the heart
".|
His dance.
it is
^a
also
miTiuseiit^dirSU
it
the kingdom of
:
sii^'S^^'irsiTeim
iBU.^Qfiu\L\Ui euirQ/D.
Ou.ir^^euiresni^OLDir(^iBt^LDir(DLD.
QLDitsniuQfidsesiitsarQp^Q(irfefifiiT^a
241
31
God
is
aULf/DLoneanB^
LD IT OB lULDirLDiraauj
as the
is
is
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
"
The dancing
sound
foot, the
of the tinkling
bells,
To
this end,
must be
fall
all
yourself, then
shall
away."*
else
He
alone
God
may
Unmai Vilakkam,
In
we find
"
The
silent
with
bliss.
the assembly,
With
this
This
is
to
QLairesrisfi LDirQpesflaiiT
is
the
of
'
silent jnanis
Tirumular
QpLbiaeo^eiD^
242
Grace. "t
QioirQ^^^
NRITTAMUETIS.
"
When
resting
there
who
and become
Where
Space.
What
idle.. ..Where
the idlers
Siva
ground.
the
idlers
know
is
sport
is
the pure
the Light.
is
What
the Vedanta.
the
is
destroy
Not merely
and what
is
It
is
Where
not the
He brings
The
that
is
and
the crematorium,
and whence
He
is
named
Sudalaiyadi,
^^
QfirtMuir
^(T^uugi
QfiTUDuir
Qiuu^ ^fi
OeuafliiSQe\)
QwireiflaSQ&
^ujh
243
Dancer
of
HINDU laONOGBAPHY.
In this simile, we recognize
the burning-ground.
demon
of the
cemetery.
in
is
current also
Kali*
is
here
dancer,
the
fire,
A Bengali Hymn
is
whose
for
empty by renunciation.
Siva
of
made
to Kali
" Because
Nought
Day and
else is
within
my
heart,
O Mother
The ashes
of the dead,
strewn
all
about,
Thy coming,
is
Kali ?"
in,
13, d. S.D.
f
8_6\)fflG'LD
iLKj^euLDiT'S
eSeo^Quififfn
Qiunesflai^^uu^iTs
(^rrcnrdQifleaiu iL^LLmamiLDira
aeOL^ Q^iri^e06sQeirn(B
244
ibitl^s
iBUf.uuasr
iBir^ar.
NEITTAMURTIS.
Do Thou
enter in,
dancing
Thy rhythmic
dance.
eyes".
of diva's
dance is explained.
we
5,
find,
"
fruit to
five,
is
v.
of securing
both kinds of
Iham, reward
Both kinds
of fruit, that
and Param,
in this world,
bliss in
MuUi.
Again,
32, 37,
39 inform
us
"
The Supreme
for the
sins.
By these
darkness of
Maya,
Mala
{anava, avidyci), showers Grace, and lovingly plunges the soul in the ocean of bliss (Ananda).
who behold
uSjreaii(S(ip(T^euireBreS
lueuiriu
Lap
eSeis^Qji
i9asr(ii/'(Sleuirssr.
fiiiueu QfisSuj(j^eir^irOesr(S^^-^QiEUj^^ireo
245
They
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The conception
"
^aiva scriptures
is
as
prominent
also
Play".
who
those
dances as do
He
life
is
of the
He
given that
dances to main-
those
to
is
identified
syllables Si-va-ya-na-ma,
of
five
In His
shoulders
ya
is
feet is
na
in
His naval is ma
Si ; in His face
is
va
in
S-etDjriLjeeariTeijd
e\)iresrLDiree>e>j^/SiT
esTQp^^ea
sjr^fiireo euealTinsiirBsiuir^
ueiDiruSi^LDiTiLa
Qu^ULDeurrd^esmQin
*
iSlpuLf.
^(Sihui^Qs&r iBeoeoiMUeo^^iT
iBir<BiB
^(T^wi^uSQeo
!B,sinJa
246
'SesnuQesr
8S._
His
His head
^iBiEfiwiriP^aS
in
is
NRITTAMtJBTIS.
A
shara
second
is also
way
of
given, as follows
and
Mala.... If this
where there
darkness, and
is
make
it
One with
Sivam".+
Another verse
Uij^mai
of
VilaMam
explains
the
Mird^ua
amS
lusjrLcuujairiM
iE6Birijoif.dQifi
jiieinesBieO
uird3e9ei>ps
Qpiueoe^ii
Qp^eaiiuipen QsQg^ea^sgt
LoemessfieSjrirLj
lUQ^efTiresrsi
UiseojbjSearu^Q^
^eu^Q^
isemssS
luird^Lo^^eaeiJ
247
syllable
of
the
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
ideograph of the written symbol
"
Chidambaram".*
(Ch. IX.
3)
dance
"
The dance
one side
mind
I
wisdom.
of
of
am
commentary on this
The first dance
the action of
is
Dance
the Omkara
the
of
Fix your
of Siva
called
This
of Kali.
is
matterthe arch,
The other
ardhamatra
The
first
dance
is
dances Himself.
*
Ou/b(yyiT LSIpuup0'ir
f
EEcaar
isisnr
is
iSleir.
Qu>iT(T^uir
Qeoir^uireon
248
it
and
NEITTAMtBTIS.
The
arch
is,
it
praJcriti; the
and
is
feet,
as ya is between
soul,
Now
we
to
The Essential
find that
Significance of diva's
Arch
which
is
the
of all
of Illusion
dambaram,
his
Movement
represented by the
image of
Dance
men from
the
is to
Snare
Thirdly the Place of the Dance, Chithe Centre of the Universe, is within
the Heart.
all aesthe-
to translate
from
to the
without reference
In conclusion,
it
may
itself
How
HINDU ICONOGBAPHY.
those rishi-artists
who
first
complex
tissue of
life,
the artist of
ages and
all
all
and
In these
countries.
such images as
sion of
who saw
'
'
this, there
life
ments.
extent of
full
so
expressive of
and
inevitable.
Every part
of
expressive, not of
is
directly
No
artist of to-day,
however
great, could
image
behind
of
all
phenomena.
If
we would
reconcile
Time
by the conception
of alternations of
phase extending
260
2,
1911.]
NBITTAMUETIS.
Especially significant, then,
is
which
fire,
'
changes,'
not destroys.
Brahma
lo
waves
of
Dancing,
phenomena.
In
dancing, he destroys
He
rises
awakening sound,
it
inert,
is
rapture,
and
Siva wills
till
of the
rest.
He
sustains
the fulness of
all
mani-
its
time,
still
This
is
poetry
fire
Again,
but Love
this
the
for
Nataraja
is
not only
purpose of
His
Truth,
Dance
is
souls.
appear to
all
how supremely
Lastly, also,
image
must
who
to give
those
in plastic forms
dancing
this
great
tuition of Life
It is not strange that the figure of Nataraja
has
commanded
tions past
in tracing
the adoration of so
beliefs to
all
many
genera-
scepticisms, expert
primitive superstitions,
251
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
explorers
of
the
and
great
infinitely
infinitely
still.
A.
K C."
first,
LVI,
The
dance of Siva.
of
is
now
Museum.
finest
4amaru
are broken
and
the
is
orna-
dhurdhura
LVII, the
in earth
that village.
is
The head
feathers,
lost.
and
one of the
It is
at
original of
Kottappadi
the temple at
separate pedestal.
side
There are
of
five
them
Ganga.
jatas on each
are
worked out
The Devi
hand
let
down and
the right
The
left
illustration,
fig.
1,
is
in
LVIII,
PLATE
LVI.
Nataraja
[To face page 252]
Bronze
Madras Museum,
PLATE
LVll
a
C3
+3-
lO
C
O
PLATE LVMI
Fig
1.
Nataraja
Bronze
Eamesvaram.
Fig
2.
Nataraja
Ivory
Trivandram.
PLATE
LIX.
Bronze
Patt svaram
Ni^ITTAMUBTIS.
the jatas round the head; the head
a hiflta
like
is
adorned with
The work
which
is
well
art.
is
a piece of ivory
ram, which
rules.
PI.
is
made in
LIX
is
The
from the
In
first.
Amsumadhhedagama
figure of Ganga standing
should be the
side of Siva
with
Ganga should be
sixteen
it is
Siva.
In
left foot
on the body
of
crowned head
circular disc
is
of the figure of
round the
or dance.
253
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
The
fifth
from
different
right leg
is
and the
head
of the
should be
straight
lifted
left
upon
resting
to the
crown
somewhat
bent,
up
leg,
the Apasmara-purusha
somewhat
In this the
previous ones.
the
to be
of iva is
three out
in
hands
left
to
is
right in the
one
one of the
left
to
and
a bell (ghanta).
of
be as in the
Siva should
represented here
of
but Siva
to be
is
arms
having sixteen
as
case of the
one
is
damaru,
{hasta
?)
Jchadga,
vajra,
and
snake
^amaru,
aula,
;
or,
pasa,
danda
taiika,
abhaya,
iula,
pUka
pose.
One
of the left
arms should
ones
body from
carrying
left
either
headed instrument
agni,
mithuna
254
(a
double
valaya (quoit),
PLATE
LX.
Na^araja
Stone
Tenkasi.
NEITTAMURTIS.
a banner,* ghanta, Metaka and Jcapala
gajahasta,
Jcapdla,
JchetaJca,
vismaya pose,
the
To the
left of
or agni,
ghanta,
pose.
left
breast
and abdomen
of his
On
artist.
life-size
hands
is
shown
In
PI.
LX,
in
belongs to a
one of the
left
ed on
To
it.
Vyaghrapada and
anjali pose.
*
left of
to
is
one
mean
a banner or
accordingly.
of the
In
fact,
sixth nritta,
266
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Pandya period and
an excellent state
of preservation.
is in
image
of nritta, the
of
is
left leg of
and the
One
as the head.
up
the
of
right
Two
maya
hands should be
poses,
in the gajahasta
respectively;
the
of the left
and the
remaining
vis-
two
To
the
of the
left
dancing figure
of
^iva should
mode
seventh
the
in
of
dance there be
hands ought
In
this,
to be held in the
and one
of
the
left
we
arms
get
one
ahhaya
damaru
is to
be
Here
images
it
of
must be
the
fifth
and sixth
266
forms
of
the
PLATE
LXI.
NIlITTAMtETIS.
Nrittamurtis should possess only two eyes, whereas
the
all
rest,
and
described hitherto
hereafter,
as follows
One
of the right
and
pose
the
whereas one
hands
other
the
of
is
should
left
carry
to
fire
in
In
it.
carry
arms
the
to
is
right foot
damaru,
be held in
ought
particular dance,
this
Apasmarapurusha but
other hand
ahhaya
to be held in the
rest
bent.
The
great toe of
is
dance of Siva.
There
is
this,
the ninth
work
is
well executed.
From
it
represent
nine varieties of
what
is
common form
technically
known
257
88
of
We find
Nataraja to be
as the bhujangatrasa
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
mode
of dancing.
Amvmadbheda-
Some
do, as a
modes
of
represent
fact,
of
of
them
few of the
ing,
images
different
is fast
so
till
recently as
English-
dancing
girls
ideals
lofty
who
of
its
one of
of
India
is
and practice
of
it is
very
and practical
Ndtya4astra
aspects.
modes
in actual sculpture
it is
difficult to
endeavour
is
really
in its theoretical
dance
of
which
feared, likely to be
is
of 6iva
met with
of the only
written by the
comgreat
PLATE
LXII.
CM
>
O
u
o
a
a
C3
iiSyj
NEITTAMtJRTIS.
Abhinavaguptacharya,* to describe them as correctly as possible.
Plate
LXII
In
^astra.
^dancM*
this
mode, according to
known
as the
hands should be
and the
The term
the Ndtya kastra
svastiJcapasritam
* There
is
is
explained in
now
in
is
dis-
It
is
Trivandram.
If
^f^d+KH'd^
j*i'diiii:
atiTirn:
t^
^rH# ^jfesvqt
=^i5r
55[%5TTf%Hnrr STJRRgTT-
^^^"r ^
ii
259
=?
^^rfe^
3i^^ ^^ ^^
i
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
but
it is
easier to
from a number
mology
other
if
is
make out
of
Two
of the term.
known
is,
in
ety-
each
that
this pose
little
to be svastikdpasrita pose.
if
is
known
as the
svastiha pose.
In
known
as the
thumb
arddha-chandra pose
that in
is
which one
side of
it is
technically
which
vaishnavastMnam,
describes as follows
is
is
prescribed for
half
standing
known
as the
Abhinavaguptacharya
two and a
of
of
The mode
lowered proportionately.
in the Jcatisama dance
raised
is
first
at a distance
angulas.
men when
NEITTAMtJRTIS.
In the
Of these, one
on
illustration given
^amaru ; another
PI.
thrown a
is
One
broken.
is
is
down and on
hands
of the right
LXII, Siva
of the left
is
arms
resting
is
on
The
The head
pose.
is
surrounded with a
is
prabhamandala.
spiral
svastihdpasrita
On
and a yajnopavlta
Besides
hatisutra on the
which
is
beauty
are
silk
and tiger's
loins.
The
Parvati
rately.
of rare
under-wear of Siva is
of
is
there
these,
beautiful
is
left of
Siva
Between her
man
moustaches
fillet
he
are
is
the
four
of long
Dikpalas,
261
its front
Yama,
perhaps
Nirruti
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
and Agni.
To
male musicians
flute,
another
is
of
whom
one
is
The head
of
son of Siva,
Over his
also one
is
technically called
the
this,
arm
left
Lalita dance,
The
treatise.
gajahasta
is
who have
studied the
first
volume
which both
a combination-pose in
and
in the case of a
eflfect
human
^ ^^oi
fc^
^f^ft ^f^^ " ^rpftqff^ itf^^Fcfr f^RF#r," " %^^^ f^gg^tcft
55^
T^I^'jf
"rarat
^:
^ ^ *R^t tk^
%?ff^ra^:?rf^TSR-
262
iPL\TE
LXIll.
V
Lalita
mode
of
dance
of
Siva
Stoae Pttnel
Ellora.
NBITTAMURTIS.
who has
being
stretched right
shoulder
other
thrice in the
arm
lifted
two arms,
only
the
across
and
the
if
one hand
if
chest
towards
other
arm
tripatalca pose,
that
is
the
bent
is
the upper
is,
hand bent
of the
to
it
at right
vertically
angles to
pose
called gajahasta
is
This definition
sastra.
no doubt,
is,
Volume
is
which
if
is
is
I of this treatise,
Pravartita hasta
The
from
for the
different
resting
upon the
toe, strikes
In the
ed as dancing in a
of his
body
with the
illustration,
is
thrown on one
left side of
side depressed.
side
and
to the
His
left
leg is
standing on the
back,
One
is
stamping
of the right
hands
is
HINDU lOONOGBAPHY.
broken and the fourth
while one arm
is
kept
is
the tripataJca
in
pose,
which
it is
kept
stretched horizontally,
away
are
sucM
pose.
There
is
the yajno-
On either
employed as hatisutra.
ment.
the
Near her
right of
Siva
is
another playing on
something which
not clear.
which
is
of Kali
seated in
its
previous
vigorous
panel,
is
On
third doing
the seat on
To
This panel
action.
This
is
one
remarkable
and
temples
the
at
Ellora.
Pis.
LXIV-LXV
Lalata-tilakam*
In this mode
264
of
dance one
of
PLATE
LXIV.
r^m^;>,;r,.
o
a
O
a
c3
e3
a
a
-S
c3
CO
c3
^CQ
ITS.
00
a
lis
CD
a
J3
o
o
a
J3
a
c3
PLATE LXV.
Co
o
a s
c8
c3
02
C3
>
NEITTAMURTIS.
the legs
up (technically known as
to be lifted
is
head with
its
if
Abhina-
which the
In Pig.
scorpion.
up behind
leg is lifted
is
it
1, PI.
LXIV, 6iva
is
one of the
left
lifted in
arms
lifted
is
in the
abhaya pose.
figure of
the right
the
is
in the ^iva
up in the pataJca
One
left of
Siva
is
of the
is
kept
seen the
;
on
This piece
of sculpture is to be
found
mode
of
dance
LXI illustrat-
of Siva.
while
the drum.
is of
seen stand-
On
of a
tail
left leg,
called the
2,
on PI. LXIV,
265
S4
n)
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
the dhvaja
The
pose.
of
Siva
is
is
abhaya
in the
planted firmly on
the ground, while the right one goes up, from behind,
To
Siva
left of
is
half
the immediate
man and
half
Mnnara,
to the right is a
on a
stringed instrument.
On
niches
left
1am and
is
a very
The
Here, the
left
belongs
Taramanga-
recent production.
Siva.
one
is
is lifted
up as far
as
resting
of
by one
of the right
is lifted
up
to the
hands
and Siva
is
a figure of a rishi
The Apasmarapurusha
is
that of
is
arms
To
Brahma
left
is
the figure
Between Brahma
who
it is, is
lying
with
not clear.
his
head
left of
PLATE
*>
LXVI.
^Ha '^p
-'-^-'^^^
lea
o
a
o
-*^
91/
'
'^
I-*
'ill
riiiiiiiim iMirr~tiirft<-"-iini
^
c3
>
a
13
C
O
13
a
an
PLATE
LXVII.
NEITTAMtJRTIS.
Another mode
of
is
known
chaturam*
this
'
as
defines
in the
Abhinavagupta-
synonym
follows
of ancJiita
called
and
alapallava.
hand
all
in
little finger is
Again,
the
thumb
is
is
chatura pose,
one in which
the
fingers
which the
little finger,
while
fingers.
Figs. 1
in a
and
2, Pis.
267
Of these,
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
the
first is
Badami.
In
arms
sixteen
sula, the
this,
in
One
arm
left
is
in
from above
Siva
is
is
The
figure of
mounted with
left leg is in
right of Siva
is
to the left of
sur-
The
Ganesa one
of
on
his left is
drums
is
which
is
being
is
fig. 1.
mode of dance represented in sculptures of Siva is known by the name of talasamIn this mode of dancing the dancer
sphotitam*.
stamps vehemently the ground in front of him with
One
other
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PLATE
LXVIll,
Talasamsphotita mode
of
dance of Siva
Kailasanathasvamin Temple
Stone
Gonjeevaraic.
PLATE
Chengunnur
of
LXIX.
Siva: Stone:
Travancore State.
PLATE LXX.
Nrittamurci
Scone
OoDJeevaram.
rXfi fare
naee 2691
NEITTAMtJETIS.
one of his
In
mode
this
of
also insisted
is
vivriti.
fied in Pis.
the
photographic
first
The
is
exempli-
original of
reproduction
in
is
The
the
left
one and
ground ; the
the
of
thumping the
act of
left is
in
is
the
is
resting
of Siva,
one
From
poses.
jata on the
left side
and on which
seated
is
shaded with
Parvati
is
and
is of
of the
it is
PI.
left of Siva.
LXIX,
Chengunnur
last illustration,
dance, which
is
The
also of
in Travancore.
PL LXX,
is of
a kind of
is
The
Her head
photograph reproduced on
this class
Ganga
In
of
dance
this sculp-
269
assuming
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
in the middle of his dance, a posture similar to the
He
dlidhasana.
of
which one
One
of the
hands
is
in the gaja-
is
an elephant
in
which
is
similarly
a figure which
is
unidentifiable,
some
270
DAKSHINAMURTl.
DAKSHINAMUETI.
A \ J'Et
* ^
a great
is
other sciences he
One
namurti.
As a teacher
known by
is
account
of yoga,
the
gives
music and
name of Dakshian
explanation
name
states
it
when he
yoga and jnana he came to be
taught the
known
risTiis
as Dakshinamurti,
The
Sankaracharya, among
great
celebrities,
Siva,
which
is
is
arts.
other
several
of this aspect of
as the Nrittamurti
is
Dakshinamurti
for joyfulness.
is
viewed in
four
different
one which
is
other Sastras
form
Hindu
Of
of
is
in temples.
the
in all
Vaishnava, the
have the
273
36
it.
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
VYAKHYANA DAKSHINAMtTETI.
As an expounder
of the
account has
right
leg
it,
of
left
back
the
of
The kind
be kept
straight in the
the
Apasmarapurusha.
Dakshinamurti
:
of these
the hand
the
is
in
danda
in the
The back
varada pose
agni
account
right
upon
Even when
it
(fire)
it is
or
left
This
is
name whioh
aJcsha-
sarpa
(snake).
In one
hand
stretched
or
left
left
it.
the
is
left
The
may
sitting
may
or
of
is
may
hanging down
leg
as another
known
as the
samdamsa
in
274
may
the Nafcya-aastras,
DAKSHINlMUETI.
pose
if it is
the other
book,
left
The
bends
will
body
of
might keep a
it
and
of the resolute
a patta-bandha.
from
a jatabhara,
;
free
of the teacher.
maJcuta
various parts
Dakshinamurti should be
fire
the
left
In the middle
should be visible
of
plants, as also
right side.
of jatas
moon on
the
jatabhara there
of the
according
to
another
account
the
colour
of
all
ornaments,
In his
left
may
ears.
garland
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
of rudraJcshas should be
The coun-
even a trace
of
must be
upon the
to the
tip
of
aspect
is
fixed
His sight
mental perturbation.
tip of the
nose
according
good to
its
all
worshipper.
The names
of the
dvaja,
for
the
The Kamikagama
jatamaliiLtas
These
rishis
should
of
rudrahsha seeds round their neck and white yajhopavltas on their person.
covered with
ashes {vibhuti or
should
not
exceed
276
hhasina)
The height
that of
the
and be
of these
chest of
DAKSHINAMtJETI.
Dakshinamurti.
It is stated in the
Kamikagama
of
and
and
of Atri
and
be adored by
others.
in the
of his
hand
his right
is,
hold the
hood of a cobra,
in his
hand.
left
Dakshinamurti.
meaning
It is stated that
of
of the figure of
He is the supreme
Dakshinamiarti
Jndna (knowledge)
him
known
such
a deity.
also as daJcshina
and
is
gazing
is
called
since daJcshina
at
is
is
is
Dakshinamukha.
his
277
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
which he keeps under subjection under
living beings,
hand contains
of beings.
hand
is
is
all
carries in his
His body
composed
of eternal bliss
is
of self
and
soul)
He is
is
the symbol
illustration, PI.
its
first
This
sculpture.
illustra-
panel has
Dm.
Of these the
is
tree,
with his
upon the
On
seat.
his
head
is
a jatahandha
the
back
hand
left
is
held in the
hand
jndnamudrd
easy to identify;
perhaps
278
it
The
pose.
which
is
not
represents a cadjan
PLATE LXXI.
JnauEL-DaksbiQamurtii
[To face page 278]
DAKSHINAMUBTI.
manuscript
hand
front left
perhaps an amrita-
carries a pot,
He
down
as the knees
on
his
on
it is
left
shoulder and
left
skin
worn
is
whole figure
in
is
portrays
insisted
beautifully
calmness
the
The
and a few
The
that
sight
is
is
fixed
below.
Below
two
and near
his seat
dharma.
also the
same animals
of the audience.
are introduced as
members
left
hand
To
the
left of
as tall as himself.
tree
on a rocky
Dakshinamurti
He
seat.
is also
This
279
is
seated a person
seated underneath a
may
either be a rishi or
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Siva himself in the aspect of the Vyakhyana-
Dakshinamurti
on the
However
Yoga-Dakshinamurti.
whom
to say definitely
hand
right
aJcshamala
left
hand
head
and
is
its
upavUa
and
is
is
this
of
is
not possible
it is
The
though carrying an
image
cMn-mudra
held in the
Its
body
is
The
fashion.
right leg
and the
down
is let
the seat
bent
left leg is
seat.
As
the knees.
is
behind
it
a smaller one,
also
an
Below the
pot.
couchant with
its
seat
hand
left
of
this
shown
are
whose
kept
in the
is
devas and
water
carries a
image
ascetic,
is
a lion
its
forelegs
other.
gandharvas,
who
are
these
their
sculptured
Brahma
as
seated on a
padmasana
PLATE
LXXll.
Plate
Jnaoa-Dakshinamurti
Sione
lxXiii.
Tiruvorriyur.
DAKSHIljrAMUETI.
the right hand
is
left carries
Brahma
On
a kamandalu.
are a deva
and his
both
d^vl, flying in
district.
sculpture.
In the
In
lalata-
left
ear
is
The
front right
on the
right
hand
left
hand
left
is
is
and the
left
hand
is
in the
kept in
hand, which
left
In the back
agni
of
chhannamra
is
(fire).
The
right leg
hangs down
foreleg
rests
upon the
right
thigh.
PI."
modern sculpture
LXXIII
is
to be found in
temple at Tiruvorriyur. It
281
36
is
coarse in
its
execution
HINDU ICONOGEAPHT.
and lacks
The jatas
effect.
patta.
as
there
is
The
seated in
fig.
1,
a bhadrapltha
is
it is
manner.
The fourth
hands held in
on which Dakshinamurti
LXXII,
PI.
LXXIII
while in PI.
seat
its
illustration,
PI.
fig. 2,
LXXII,
is
fig. 1,
PI.
South Travancore.
in
It
down on
hand
right back
left
hand a
in the
LXXIV, is from
is
is
The image
has on
is
head
its
The
the shoulders.
the vlrasana.
In the
hand
left
is
held
hand
carries a book.
Fig. 2, PI.
figure
of
LXXIV,
is
PLATE LXXIV.
Fig.
1.
Jnana-Dakshi^amurti
Suohindram.
Stone
Fig. 2.
Jnana-Daksbi^amiarti
Stone
Eaveripakkam.
PL\TE LXXV.
2
pq
DAKSHINAMtJBTI.
and belongs to the Pallava
Herein, the
period.
hand
is
Eound
hand
left
hand
The
is
right leg
one
(?),
is
kept bent
while the
left
utkutihasana posture.
the
in
seat,
vritta-
Below
kundala
PL LXXV,
Fig. 1,
photograph
of the
is
the reproduction of a
Jnana-Dakshinamurti kept
in the
In
plate is that of a
left
arm.
on
2,
and on
on the same
Fig.
PI.
LXXIII
It is almost similar
is
is
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
JNANA-DAKSHINAMtJETI.
There
is
much
not
between the
difference
is
exactly the
same
as
hand there
left
hand
a utpala flower.
held in
in the
YOGA-DAKSHINAMUETI.
This form
of
In the
first,
of the
sana
svastiJca-
hand should
rest
upon the lap in the characterIn the back right hand there
shoulders.
fixed
left
hand
on the
tip
of
Dakshinamurti should
be surrounded by rishis
In the
Dakshinamurti the
left leg of
surrounding the
PLATO LXXVI.
^^^^'^^^^..i^.
Yoga-Dakshiriamurfci (locally
kaowQ
as Gaulisvara)
Stone
Tiruvorrlyur.
DAKSHINAMtJETI.
body
of the figure
patta.
seat.
and
should be a yoga-
The
left leg.
is
first
form.
required to be sculptured
are bent
and crossed
in a
more
is
passed
The
left
hand a Jcaman^alu.
jatamandala and in
it
The
Dakshinamurti
of black colour.
The
ing a
is
a well-
It
The
inscrip-
up
in
it
as
Padampakkanayinar and
285
state that
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
it
was
set
up
From
main
the
of
it,
is,
the image
itself
enshrined therein,
may, without
it
form
The
jata-mahuta ornamented
it
of
Jcundalas
rudrahsha
The forearms
this is
being broken
in the
left
back
is
hand
an expounder
it
and
left
hand
is
the kapdla
This image
of sciences.
near
now
name
of Gaulisvara
is
set
now
and
up in more
on the
286
PLATE LXXVIl.
DAKSHINAMUETI.
The second form
by PI. LXXVII.
is illustrated
The
Conjeevaram.
temple at
nathasvamin
left leg
In
leg
hand
is in
this
The back
right
front
right
down the
seat.
Siva
is
Below
Siva.
uplifted hood,
bhutas on either
pair of
on either
situated
an
of Siva.
up to
On
side.
three
niches
respectively of Dakshina-
side
At some
when
began to peel
off,
The
plaster.
nature of
different
all
required by the
for the
they have
most
in their stead
dgamas seems
thus,
objects
:
make
of
a lotus
flower that
is
back
agni,
287
left
hand
of Siva,
namely,
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
and listening to the preaching
Yoga by
of the
Vharma
Siva.*
or
is
reproduced as PI.
that on PI.
Dakshinamurti
seen
is
sitting here
Pi.
Nanjangodu
represents,
asana
assumed
with
posture goes,
The
form.
third
namely,
its sitting
in
his "
legs
the
posture
aspects
all
Yoga,
is
the yogic
who
is
and the
He
is
armed with
common
no serious refutation
on the
represented in a panel
mistakes are
the
north
the
is
it
are
But
yogapatta.
The
utJcutiJcasana
of
a combination of
is
Dakshinamurtis
of
form
that
is
This
Province.
its sitting
Yoga-Dakshinamurti.
the
bound
Mysore
the
in
only so far as
in his publications
288
Such
different
(!)
is
for,
to
wrongly
PLATE
Yoga-Dakshiriamurbi
LXXVIII.
Stone: Oonjeevaram.
PLATE LXXIX.
Dakshinamurti
Stone
Nanjangodu.
DAKSHINAMtETI.
the Vinadhara because
carries
it
is
hand
carries a book.
in the
banyan
tree
on the pedestal,
is
guru are
figure is seated
lihga.
prabhd,vali
is
seat
and in the
On
below a
(the totemistic
Below the
in front.
hand a
left
of it is seated a
in his left
pose.
The
middle
front right
hands
in the anjali
of
VINADHAEA-DAKSHINAMIJETI.
As a
and
form
of
Vina-
found in the
The Amsumadbheddgama
should be kept in the
utJcutiJca
khyanamurti.
left
37
Jcatalca pose,
the former
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
with
its
The
above.
latter facing
Kamihagama calls the pose the sarpaThe left arm should be lifted up and the
form, the
Tcara.
right
so as to hold in proper
at the top
Vina.
left
by the
The lower
right
hand should
The measurement
follows
of the
vlna
is
next given as
The
left kataJca-hasta.
danda
is
whose
hand held
in the
sandarsanaviudra pose
may
also the
Surroun-
and
290
reptiles, sages
(munis)
PLATE tXXXI.
PLATE LXXX.
Vinadhara-Dakabiciamurti
[To face page 291]
Bronza
Madras Museum.
DAKSHINAMUETI.
and
ascetics (siddhas),
hinnaras
bhutas and
vidyadharas,
mountain where
all
sorts of
on the right
on a jewelled
-pltjia
The
round him.
figure of
Dakshinamurti
seated
may
be
by
rishis,
banyan
tree,
Two photographs,
Pis.
Siva
Pis.
is
seen standing
0. C.
and XIV.
instance, in
while the
all,
left
back hands
of
In every
the right
one
is slightly
bent
all
for
on the ground
which carry the parasu and the mriga and the two
to
In the case
of PI. I, there is
291
agamas
all
the
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
with his right leg kept firmly on the ground, while
the
The
the
placed a
left leg is
front
left
little
JcataJca pose,
down. Evidently a separately cast vlna was intended to be inserted in the hands whenever wanted
and hence
The back
either image.
left
The
of
LXXX)
the
figures.
LXXXI)
Vadarangam
an
is
first
the
is
one
similarity,
by
nay
identity
different
names
lastly
PI.
that on PI,
left leg,
four
292
if
its
PI.
embel-
striking
they
is
are
said to
PL XIV, Ganga-
or Somadhari
justifiable at all.
on
of the
images,
on
that on
XX, Chandrasekhara
of
of the artistic
instead
held supported
In spite
among the
be Kalasamhara or Kalakalamurti
dhara, that on
is
master-sculptor.
the
second,
called
The
lishments of
(PI.
to be
first is of
figure
value
carries
There are
one a mriga.
person
second (PL
hand
right
in
[sic).
It is
and
not
KANKALAMURTI AND
SHATANAMURTI.
BHIK-
KANKALAMUETI.
Once upon a time the great
learning as to
who was
rishis, desirous of
creator,
In
he boasted
Universe.
and
Though
syllable Otti)
his
on behalf
of Siva
of
[Siva,
but
yield
in vain.
Vedas
the
At
and the
also interceded
last,
through the
pillar
Brahma remained
still
obstinate.
him.
Brahma
revived by the
power
295
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
the superiority of 6iva. However, the sin of having
killed
Brahma
hrahmahatya)
Bhairava
Brahma
requested
to suggest to
Brahma
him to beg
food in the skull of the head cut by him till he met
Vishnu who would devise means for wiping off
the sin. Till then, said Brahma, the sin would
to get rid of this sin
of a
advised
woman and
be ever pursuing
him.
(goblins)
All the
women
of bhutas
of the houses
he visited
fell
in love
accompany him.
of
Last
of all
sena,
to enter
enter.
killed
fight
it,
but Vishvak-
sin
of
brahmahatya.
Vishnu
on his
trident,
interior of
Vishnu
him
fittest
food for
Vishnu
to assist
Bhairava
him.
him
pleaded on behalf
in
of
it
next
sin.
was the
requested
Vishnu
kankAlamubti.
However, the thought occur-
if
him
off
from his
sins.
and as soon
of
way
Vishvaksena
body
his
Brahma and
The
skull
left
to
life
usual.
we meet with
in the
Such, in short,
is
the account
QcanJcala)
of
of
Vishvaksena by
There
is
the skull
expedition.
slaughter of
Vishvaksena
is
The reason
off of
for
Siva
having begged so
down
that
if
is
It is
Brahmana happens
to
a learned person
is
course
of
conduct
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY
prescribed thus
own
it
head
man he killed
of the
'and live
of a
be
made
it
of threads of the
a skull
in
one of
of the deceased
and
if
the
stick he
as a
living
"
arm
who
is
silence
He
of a bhruna."
in his hut,
should
it
in getting
that day.
to a
Brahmana
on account
village.
He may
to be untouchable.
pig,
who
ted.
if
there
out
At home
like
(Jchatvanga)
should start
He
Carrying
move away to
like
kankAlamurti.
it
Arya
Thus should he
to go by.
Aryas by
;
off
this course
fit
of
in the future.
If,
however, the
prescribed above
life
unendurable, he
may end it
In those
in the
Dharmasastra
is
He may fight
political reasons.*
and
suffer
committed often
he
or, if
is
unfortu-
may
still
he comes
cattle-raiders,
*
War
is
he
out
is
same
divided into
two
or
If
is,
sin.
Or, he
Tamil
literature,
righteous or dharma-
adharma-yuddha.
king, notice
children, mendicants
which
is
in
classes
a righteous
cause.
away
for
and
to be attacked.
is
In declaring
given to good
ascetics,
and cows
war and
to
of
no such notice
is
given.
299
In the mara-ppdr
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
might get into the thick
shot dead
it
incumbent on the
hhruna.
out
to
seeking to be
of a battle
Such, in short,
is
of a
brahmana murderer
the
murderer
of
a learned
brahmana.*
*
3TST
g^iTfT^^^q'
14
"TR^^
If
=?
Dbarma-sutra, Haradatta's
lOth Patala,
29lih.
sot:
1%^: a^frtrHr4
Apasfi.
m^
cf
w^
t^
Gomm.
1st Prasna,
Khandika.
firi^ll
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Apastambha-Dharaia-sutra, with
300
Haradattacbarya'a
KANKALAMtJETI.
authorities are
off
the head of
The
bhrunas.
to
sin of
brahmahatya
stuck, at
it
ought,
course of conduct
With
it
any town or
village,
but
From
all
accounts
we
murder
of
by Siva
Dharma-
bhrunaghna.
brahmanas,
of
it is
to
whether
part
of
it
^iva
Aryas
of the
was
if
commentary on
it
the question
disqualification
this
made him
that
so,
named
on the
hateable to
Ujjvala,
1st
the
Prasna,
Manu
Smriti, XI,
Kurma-Puraiia,
XXXtb
301
chapter end.
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Aryas, as he
is
said to
earlier
There
is
tanamurti, he
seen stark
The Lingapurana
abegging.
forest of
is
that in the
them
feel the
need also
of the
To make
went into
their
The appearance
midst.
ants of the
all
all
the inhabit-
his
sorts of
maya
rishis
it,
the
bad ways
of this
set
up
he disappeared.
The
rishis
than
offered
Brahma
advised
ously
if
them
for-
human embodiment.
302
him
in person once
KANKALAMUETI.
again.
They followed
his advice
The images
the
of
Kankalamurti
and the
all
India and
all
The
of the
figure
Kankalamurti should be a
Kankalamurti.
the
left
leg
is
in the act of
moving.
He
should
ments while
of silk
and
be
his
is
pure white.
tiger's
[skin.
The
left
side,
crescent moon.
of happiness, smiling
and
be half visible and the ears adorned both with ordinary Jcun^alas or with a mahara-Jcun^ala in the right
303
HINDU ICONOGEAPHT.
ear and a anlchapatra in the
left
here the
left
of
drum,
by the name
of
dhakJca.
Ttankala-danda or the
stafi
of
tied
The
staff.
tally
on the
left
up a dagger made
of
left
In the
hand.
of gold,
he
finished with a
number
of
should be
snake ornaments
distri-
buted
all
304
KANKALAMUETI.
bhutaganas (goblins) represented variously as dansinging and in other attitudes
cing,
one
of
the
on the
left of
Siva.
women who
Of the
surround
still
others
women
Siva,
of rishis, devas,
loips.
gandhar-
Siva, with
pose.
of the
in the anjali
the celestial
his
head
Tumburu
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
In the case
is
that
of the
is,
the
left leg
The
suggesting
bent
front right
held as in the
Bhikshatana-
BMksiiatana-
^^^^aspect
image
of the
case
of
left
Kankalamurti,
the
left
right
form of a
crescent
moon
circle
in
The forehead
it.
should
But
there should be
the person of
no kind
all
be
there
over the
of clothing
on
In-
this, there
should be other
Siva.
On
yajnopdvlta.
the chest
The neck
to be
is
seen
of Siva should
a white
be of blue
but in
There should
be
sometimes
306
a
it
its
place
lot of
pair
of
there
peacock-
wooden
might be omitted
KANKALAMtETI.
also.
The hand
lifted as
damaru should be
carries the
to be sixteen angulas.
is
As
arm
usual,
The
is
identical with
that
Bhikshatanamurti
Kankalamurti.
murder by Siva
an aspect
of both
of Vishnu, is accepted
A number
of
illustration of the
tanamurti
unfortunately
South India, a
and followed.
fact
all
of
which seems
them belong
to
worshipped
the
freely instead.
equally
who
similar
to
it
will
any
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
On
duced in illustration
of the
descriptions
LXXXIX).
and
may
be
because
Of these,
five
Kankalamurti
five of
(Pis.
are of
LXXXII
Bhikshatana
tion of either.
back hand of
It
pinchha,
is
TcataTia
them a separately
in
left
all
the
of
if
necessary.
cast
hmikaladanda or a
sikhi-
of
Kankala-
Nagesvarasvamin, Tiru-
is
seen with
all
left off
here,
The
sculpture
of
at
which
and
is
if it is
on
head
its
it
it
is
doubtful
has no jatamaJcuta
to be inferred
to be a
it is
Bhikshatanamurti rather
308
PLATE LXXXll,
Kankalamurti
Stone
Darasuram.
fTo face page 308]
PLATE
LXXXIII.
p--
Kankalamurfci
Bronze
Tenkasi.
PLATE LXXXIV.
Kankalamurti
Stone
Suohindram.
PLATE LXXXV,
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303]
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PLATE LXXXvm.
Bhikshatanamurti
[To face page 309]
Bronze
Valuvur.
PLATE LXXXIX.
BhikshatanamurtL
Bronze: Panda^anallur.
[To face page 309]
KASKALAMtJETI.
The cut
image
of
Bhikshatanamurti
Valuvur
of
in strik-
is
vahanamurti
of
Vedaranyam,
which
artist {sthapati)
makes
who made
us
these
made very
well
indeed, but
we
Bhikshatanamurti
figure of the
same
of
of the
Nagesvarasvamin temples
Both
are
gems
of art.
posture, the
The extremely
easy and
of
them
natural
artist
eminently
has
In the
ture
One other
peculiarity
which
is
not found
is
in
the sculp-
it is
309
THE
a son
first
^IVA.
wife Kesini,
sixty thousand
man and
example
equally bad.
^ays
Gangadhara^*^*
of
his
of the SOUS
of
the evil
Sagara asked
wicked sons
of
all
the
all
perish.
Sagara
he
loose
let
and hidden
prints of
a horse.
It
in the Pdtala-loka.
the horse
the
sixty
till
thousand sons
of
of
Kapila.
These
penance
40
of his
kill
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
return of his sons in vain, Sagara sent his grandson
Amsumat
(son
of
Asamanjasa) to search
He
way
Kapila.
for the
rishi pleased
all
The
his grandson.
by Sagara and
Amsumat was
son of
The
ratha.
rishi
was celebrated
horse-sacrifice
after
Gahga was
Amsumat
that
if
Gahga
of her fall
and
for
He
resist the
if
none
to be pierced
of her descent
to
Eudra
Ganga
began to
on his
address
(Eudra's)
his
head.
of
penances
Siva,
being
Bhagiratha,
314
satisfied
went
to the
At
receive Ganga.
to
SIVA.
Ganga
first
in great
force.
Having
to
Ganga
flow down on the earth. Bhagiratha led Ganga
to where his ancestors' ashes lay and made them
attain heaven
let
by the contact
It is
the river
Bhagiratha
is
The image
of
Gangadharamurti
Karanagama.
is
described in
Eamikagama and
the
The
front right
left
left
front
315
be
right
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
arm being
lifted
of the goddess
hand should
left
carry a mriga.
On
the
left of
Uma
stand-
the
left
Uma
face
Her
should be hanging
down
should be carrying in
it
and the
freely
a flower
right
or,
left
hand
one
thigh.
On
the
left
with a number
of figures described
Gahgadharamurti.
The group
The
may
The
The
figure of
and the
*
front
This
is
left
in the
abhaya pose
316
The
PLATE
XC.
Gangadharamurbi
Stona Panel
Elephanta,
[To face page 317]
S'lVA.
the mriga.
jata (this
The height
of the
it
should
latter
eyes
should be held in
XC,
to be
is
is
is
in the
seems to be descending
the back
it
left
arm
is
Brahma
front right
abhaya pose.
is
The
The
and Uma.
of this
at present,
padmasana.
executed in
In the centre
is
found in
hand
Even though
broken
it
is
seated upon a
of Siva is kept
the forearm of
Uma
it is
of
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
hand
front left
of
Siva
arm
the
is
left
of the figure
Uma, whose
left
is let
and held
is
To
of Siva.
Uma
is
seen
On
the goddess
of
a flower.
it
is
seated Bhagi-
anjali pose.
left of
Uma
are
Uma
and to the
air,
which
cumulus
is
shown
all flying in
cloud.
workmanship and
is
remarkable
and the
purusha
left leg
placed
right bent
is of
rare
PI.
XCI,
with his
manner
in the conventional
In this Siva
straight
is
that of a
of the rockis
standing
(or a gana).
is lifted
PLATE
XCI.
Gangadharamurti
(To
iince
page 318]
Stono Panel
Trichinopoly.
PLATE
XCII.
^IVA.
this jata
of
the river
is
The
meant
to keep a mriga,
resting
which
at a distance
is
it
is
hands in
their
of Siva.
either side
an
Siva
of
hand
left
shown
actually
up
hand
front right
Bhaglratha on
left
attitude of
are holding
On
praise.
is
by an ornamental platform
piece of
century and
is
supported
is
the middle
The age
of
of
the seventh
it
this
of the
The
PI.
third piece
XCII,
is
to be found
central shrine
Ellora.
sculpture given
of
^iva
of
is
as
fig. 1,
of the
at
down
the
river goddess
upon the
if
the back
hip.
which
of his jatas,
hand and
The
his
front left
back
arm
is
319
arm which
is
broken,
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
was apparently near the chin
Gangii
with
is
river
crossed legs
From
cross legged
by the yoga-patta,
supported
evidently Bhagiratha.
are
all
near him
it
flows to
below the
sculptured as seated
pose.
The
Uma.
of
in the anjali
are sculptured
an
it
is
At the
figure
possible to say.
foot of Siva
it is
is
not
Uma
Her
left
crossing the
left
The fourth
is
leg is planted
one.
illustration,
PI.
XCIII, belongs to
Taramangalam
the Salem District of the Madras Presidency.
comparatively modern date {circa 15th
is of
century A. D).
in a very
who
is
In
woman, Ganga.
He
for
is
320
standing
his consort
her
with the
PLATE
Gangadharamurti
Stone
XCIII.
Taramangalam.
left
arms he
of his left
hand which
head
and she
and the
bull,
^iva
which
is
is
flowing
down
by a
are standing.
of
The
is
In his back
embracing her.
is
the mriga.
the
with one
Uma
and
is
is
is
Ganga who
holds
^IVA.
left leg of
somewhat
Uma
bent.
is
left
one
is
planted firmly
is
somewhat bent
In her
hand
left
is
a flower and
The
'Z,
PI.
XCII)
is
that of
which
varankoyil
(Tanjore
similar
to
district)
exactly
is
described.
It is stated in the
first
beings.
to
create
various
The
321
11
of creation,
latter
other
later
feeling
contem-
appeared before
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
him
in the
and
also,
of
not occur to
did
at
the
Mahesvara he
Brahma
sight
of
realised his
Thitherto
to create a female
this composite
error
form
thereupon he
tion
crea-
This story
well.
The
real
meaning
of this aspect
There
is
of Siva in the
occasion
Arddhanarisvara form.
On
a certain
All
of
in their circum-
had a vow
Siva
of
down
is,
vow, he neglected to
to Parvati.
Parvati grow-
risJii
go round or bow
all
This
mind that
his
In this state he
SIVA.
so
as
to
enable
him
to attain equilibrium;
The design
and the
to
failed
penance
end
for obtaining a
who
of Parvati
failure
At the
Thus was
caused
returned to do
and
own
body.
undaunted by
this
But,
who became
reconciled to his
vow and
for his
The
isvara
is
Kamikagama, the Suprabhedagama, the Silparatna, the Karanagama and a few other works.
As the name indicates, the form of this image
should be half
man and
half
323
woman.
The
right
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
half
male, that
is
female, that
is,
Siva and
The male
Parvati.
is,
the
left
half is
half should
should
there
In the right
be the nakra-Jcundala,
sarpa-
sculptured in
may have
The image
it.
of
an eye
Arddhanarisvara
two,
of
If there are
the
parasu
hand may be
or one
ahhaya pose
in the
may
or there
may
varada pose
be a ^awA;a
be held in the
may
if
right
there
may
of
or
the
the right
JcapStla
side
held by
it.
or
The whole
On
the right
loins only
garment
man.
is
silk.
On
of the
the right
SIVA.
and on the
pavlta
loins
the
of
same
the
side,
The whole of
side should be covered with ashes. The
should be somewhat bent (or it may
leg
also be straight)
The
right half
might be
terrific in
appearance and
The
half of Arddhanarisvara.
the Parvati
left or
below.
On
left side
On
the
ear
left
vdlika*
should be
If the
image
left
of
The
should be shown.
of ^iva
a kundala
In the
known
as
and
it
or the latter
* This
the
name
of
is
may
be
let
down hanging
below.
an ear-ornament
common
is
in the
325
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
If there be
This hand
may
keep in
it
either a flower,
it
if,
may
parrot or a flower, or
may
it
of the
it
on the
one
left
a mirror, a
The
bull.
may
parrot
be
this
side
the chest
of
made
of
The female
half should be
smeared with
multicoloured silken
body down
female cloth,
to the ankles
consist merely
of
white
or,
silk.
draped in
saffron,
covering
the
the garment
may
On
the
left
and the
left
ankle
foot
there
sana.
The
be
an
anklet
somewhat bent
should
The
or stand erect
colour of the
parrot-green or dark,
left
left leg
may
and should be
appearance.
326
might be
either be
of
pacific
PLATE
XCIV.
M'**.^''-mt:^''^'^
v^ f
a
^
327]
SIVA.
the description of
Of these,
PI.
XCIIl
to illustrate
is of
In this sculpture,
;
of Siva; the
it.
On
head
crescent moon,
is
the skull
it
the
An
There
is
and
is
skin.
resting
This
side is draped
with deer's
on the chest.
The
right leg
is
somewhat bent
The
number
of hanikanas
ankles.
left
of
down to the
The other
The whole
it,
silk
On
the foreleg
is
an anklet.
hand holds
a mlotpala flower.
the head
surrounded with a
327
is
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
To
prabhamandala.
is
the
of
left
Arddhanarisvara
arm
left
in
is
a vessel
it
with
Her
she
ornaments and
all
hair
is
is
To
adorned
beautifully
with a thoroughly
its
Behind the
it.
is
human
bull is a
emaciated body
it
figure
may
be
On
and
left
head
of the
the right
and praising
Siva.
of Arddhanarisvara, are
ments.
The second
to
The
Mahabalipuram.
reproduced here
In
ratha.
is
XCV,
figure of Arddhanarisvara
sculptured on
the Dharmaraja-
this,
abhaya pose.
and the
left half
The
female
is
belongs
right half
of the
is
one of
is
kept
shaped male
PLATE XCV.
m
t
-s
03
^IVA.
The forearm
number of brace-
lets.
an ordinary small
is
left
patra-Jcundala.
The
third
original of
which
svamin temple
at
Kumbhakonam,
represents that
piece of sculpture
and
period
is
is
the
to be
is
XCV,
one of the
This
Chola
finest of the
remarkable for
the
exactness of
artistic
of the torso
portions
The
effect.
figure in
of
instance has
this
head
arms one
of the bull
is
lets.
the
On
left
the
up
is
slightly
left
lifted
left
its
the
left
in front
329
on the
near the
loins.
HINDU ICONOGKAPHT.
On
is
many
one of the
excellent
The
fourth illustration,
XCVI,
2, PI.
fig.
is
The
original of
this is to be
The
a photograph
illustration is
fifth
Museum
XCVI).
It is
is
one has on
is
Of the two
left
is
a nllotpala flower,
its
the
holds in
(see fig.
of
In other
wrist a parrot.
details, it
The
all
sixth illustration
the
first
prakdra
of the
hand
is
has
the
piece lying in
In
this,
arms
three
the image
is
raised
The
Arddhanarisvara
right
is
from
Kailasanathasvamin
the
of
PL XCVII).
a loose
is
of
entirely different
is
by
the front
lower
its
up as high
its
tail
as
the
PLATE
XCVI.
pq
PLATE
Arddhanarisvara
Stone
XCVII.
Conjeevaram.
PLATE
Arclclhanarisvava
Stoaa
XCVIII.
Madura.
[To face page 331]
reptile
up
lifts
elbow
back
is
resting
which the
of
Nowhere
seated.
beginning
figure
it
hand, that of
left
;
it is
bent and
of the bull
of
upon the
Arddhanarisvara
is it
its
is
may
com-
is
noteworthy
its
The
trihula.
s'lVA.
an unusual attitude
The
for its
bull is also
Mahabalipuram sculpture
common
to the age to
artificial
However,
it is
disposition
of the
drapery
manship.
PI.
fig.
3,
extra-
in this Arddhanarisvara
The heads
are
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
them the ahsliamdla, the Jchadga, the pasa,
the musala (?), a Jcapala, a lotus flower and other
carry in
The
objects.
left
male and
figure is
female and
side is
represents Parvati.
which
Arddhanarisvara
whose photograph
agrees
reproduced here.
is
it is
dhamurti.
it
is
of
Arddhanar-
of
description
its
origin
of
in the
Vamana-purdna
this
aspect
of the deity
that
it
Vishnu
related
is
reported to
is
in
him
resides
Siva
and
also
manifested
In
left
half
is
each
other
the
for
Uma, Durga
or
Devi
is
to
with
purpose
occupied
is,
as
liiiga
of
we
and
also considered
It
is
necessary
of
the
represented in
all
and the
chaJcra,
Vishnu.
sister
of
Vishnu.
prakriti-tfibtva
weapons characteristic
the
Vishnu
is
and hence we
SIVA.
of
is
also
viewed as the
Vishnu substituted
see
Again,
it
its
worship as a chief
after the
is
conversely Siva
and destruction
of the
Universe.
mahotsavas
in
the
temples
of
Harihara,
the
vehicles, decoration
and these
by both
In the figure
of
Harihara or Haryarddhamurti,
Arddhanarisvara.
portion
follows
is
:
The
left half
described in
On
the
the
left side of
333
or the Vaishnava
Sanskrit
texts
as
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
be two arms, of which one should be carrying the
On
Vaishnava
in the
should be a
half, there
head,
the
Jcirlta set
The arms on
ear.
with
On
the
an anklet shaped
like
on the
leg should be
left
set
precious stones.
all
be draped with a
of the
adorned with
other ornaments.
left
Saiva half
is
of
Vishnu
The
and the
terrific
left
half
half should
right
On
pacific.
be
Saiva
the
must
that to the
left
of
Garuda and
to the right, of
Nandi.
Haryarddhamurti one,
the panel
found
Badami.
The
in
PI.
the lower
central
figure
331
XCIX,
belongs to
cave temple at
in this
panel
is
PLATE
XClX.
Haryarddhamurti
(or
Harihara, Sankara-Narayariamurfei)
Stone Panel
Badami.
Vishnu
ear
is
is
of Siva
carries a
the back
hand keeps a
left
one there
left
a nakrakundala.
image
In the right
is
^IVA.
have
to
There
thigh.
crown
of the
the right
is
hand
left
left
posi-
is
resting
upon the
and
its
front
been held in
the corresponding
and
The
sahJcha.
it
On
are
hand a danda
his right
and on the
left
between
figure
of
horizontal
On
the head
of
celestial
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
The second photograph,
beautiful
image
PI. C,
that of a
is
of the
Western
Circle.
In
this
all details
is
first.
is
As
in the
fruit
and a flower
kneeling on the
in the
left
is
of
a bull,
of this
standing on the
is
image
central figure
distinction
Vaishnava
is
is
a prabh^vali.
shown between
the
prabhavali and,
expanded hood
the
of
left
being
excellent
is
remark-
for the
At the back
Even
here
Saiva
and
an ordinary
one-half
five-headed snake
of
the
trikula
Brahma seated
On
of
an
but on
is
The sculpturing
great credit
Garuda
two hands.
is
the
figure of
PLATE
C.
Haribara
Stone
Foona.
objects
SIVA.
characteristic of
this deity.
Sati, the
The
was dead.
of Siva
asura, Taraka,
was
offering
In the absence
of Siva.
of a wife
Kaiyan a a u ndaramurti.
^^^^ ^^
(Himavan)
as Parvati
of Siva.
g^^
^^^^
and was
Sati
^f
in the
was already
^^^ Himalaya
herself performing
was
at such a
Kama
moment
that, induced
It
by the devas,
of
gods
wanted
to try the
Varaha-purana
steadfastness of
form
of
Parvati,
an
Parvati.
it.
The
brahmana,
old, decrepit
He
is alone in
life.
approached
in her austerities,
and
The
old
man
went
to
337
43
for meals.
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
hermitage of Parvati and as soon as he got down
into the water contrived to be caught by a crocodile.
He
Pravati came
to be held
Siva,
by others than
for
of
still
the guest
vow
of not
that
being
Siva; she
of
stretched
arm and
out her
him out
him.
of the
Pleased
left
showed
his
with Parvati,
Siva
gratified
with her lord for having saved her from being held
up
She dedicated
herself to
The
it
are
In the composition
of
Parvati with
marriage
SIVA.
acting
the parts of
the parents in a
in the back-ground,
it
be
Brahma
fire.
hdma
or
making
of giving
there should
then,
ceremony
in the
of
and performofferings to
at various
dis-
beings),
great
rishis
powers),
(sages),
who
YaJcshas
Gandharvas
all
of
them standing
in their faces.
composition of this remarkable scene and the individual figures are described in detail as follows
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
on the
left leg
the
or,
left leg
niay be
The
right
arm
to receive the
the front
left
back
left
The head
is,
should be of the
should be
of Siva
it,
and
their appropriate
all
moon
keyura, the
in the
of Siva, that
trihhahga posture.
hand
In the back
right
front
The
Takshaka
the h^ra.
The
as the waist
just
come
The
to age.
colour
three eyes.
To
the
left of
should be
Soma
340
left sides of
s'lVA.
left
of taking
hand keeping
slightly bent
down
ornaments appropriate
or the
The
chest
of Siva
and she
garments.
In front
of
making
offerings to the
should be as high
as
Purva-Kdranagama
the
gives
chest
of
Siva.
The
numerical proportions
Vishnu might
Brahma either
Brahma must be
seated upon
padmdsana
which the
fire is
kunda in
As
of
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
the
He
homa ceremony.
made of munja
girdle
grass,
and
all
and
other ornaments;
left
respectively,
and
in the
left
hands
The
respectively.
colour of
Brahma
should be red
The
as follows
hunda
is
then given
fire is
of the
fire
In the
pit of
fire
Brahma
must be
height.
lahdha-ahgula
On
is
and the
half their
the deha-
the north of
the figure of
as high
figure
if
as the
nose,
it is
said to be a
adhama.
If it
nttama
Dividing
uttama,
composed
of the
SIVA,
uttamottama, uttama-
is,
Vishnu
so forth.
head and
all
other ornaments in
left
proper
their
hands he should
pot,
held
bridegroom iva.
The
The
figure of
Lakshmi
is
required to be as
keyiiras, JcaiiJcanas
hip of
of
an elephant adorned
graceful and
Such
figures
are the
descriptions
of the
individual
theme
of
the
Indian
artist,
as
given
in
the
me now
Let
various
parts
of
India,
turn to
the
found in the
HINDU ICONOGRAPHY.
Seven photographs are given in
marriage
the
of
scene
of
with Parvati
Siva
are of
illustration
varying degrees of
all
them and
me
Let
The
first
them
separately.
that of the
is
The
image
of Siva is
hand
is
eyes.
The
front right
The
hand
is
is
is
head
front left
its
The
image
slightly bent
and
is
resting
left
left
of
one
On
is
a jatamahuta adorned
draped in
made.
The image
skin
and on the
tiger's
344
all
is
these are
apparently
feet
are
the
PLATE
Kalyanasundaramurti
Bronze
CI.
Tiruvorriyur.
Plate
Kalyaaasundaramurti
Stoua Panel
Ratanpur (Bilaspur
District).
cii
anklets.
figure is standing
SIVA.
upon a padmasana.
kataka pose.
On
ornaments
of
is
a Jcaranda-
is
good workmanship
of
wears an exquisitely
kept in the
is
number
hand
left
on the
by mekhalas
loin
(a
kind of
its
she
which
embroidered cloth
is
held
The
belt).
on a 'padmcLsana
in
In
hand
front left
upon the
before the
making
left
who
of
in this
Siva.
His
right shoulder of
Parvati.
sula
rests
hand
is
fire,
Brahma
on the right
fire-offerings
the
of Siva
fire
is
seen
and
is
seated
busy in
burning in a cup
44
is
of
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
stands
fire
Surrounding the
number
of
attitude
The next
illustration, CIII, is to be
It is a
remarkably
unfortunately here
very
found in
is suffi-
hand
is
is
The
Parvati.
beauty
who
Siva
interesting scene.
figure
of
Parvati
is
striking
of
depict an
amount
of shyness
which
homa
to the left
its
all
is
all
own.
Brahma
is
of
making
is
seen
Vishnu with a
at the
groom.
ceremony
The
resting
Parvati with
upon the
346
the bride-
man
is
to
his right
right shoulder of
H.ATE cm.
Kalyanasundaramurti
Scona Panel
Elephanta.
PLATE
CIV.
Kalyanasundaramurti
Stone Panel
EUora.
Parvati.
fact that
it
SIVA.
of inferior head-gear,
may presume
one
he,
it is
panel.
repre-
it
that
If
Below the
large drum,
hand
right
of this figure is
number
a
of
In point
married couple.
is
feet
itself
measures
EUora.
the panel
its details
to that of the
at
exactly similar
is
of
its
work-
and
artistic finish.
The
PL
CV
large panel
belongs to
vara at Bllora.
the two on the
marriage
left
the
Cave temple
It is divided into
left
and
is
of
given on
Rames-
three sections,
of Parvati
section
whose photograph
with Siva.
at its
right
end
In the extreme
is
seen Parvati
fires,
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
Her left hand
marriage.
To her
left
figure,
with
is
rests
upon her
stands a
woman
carrying a box
outstretched right
hand
is
changes
to the
little
who was
the beggar,
a male
as though
box in her
hungry beggar
seen standing
hand.
thigh, while
left,
scene
the
asked by Parvati,
and return
meals,
for
by a makara and he
vati
of
who
is
is
Par-
offer
moment
if
she should
now
hand
note,
save
lift
him up with
To
in knee deep
her
is
in the
vismaya pose.
of slander
6iva
panel,
just
above
identity.
fire
and
ornaments
readily
the conventional
^IVA.
manner described
elsewhere.
depicted in
is
it
his
right hand.
who
with a pot
of ^iva, in
of
is
offering
same
receives the
in
and bridegroom
the bride
seen that
is
the
is
Vishnu standing
making the
gift of
the bride.
Lakshmi's
and she
is
ants, one of
are
Brahma,
assisted by a rishi,
fire-ofifering
panel
is
{homo).
The
is
the anachronistic
Ganesa
is
presence
of
of the
of
Ganesa
two
The
little
The
the gana.
hand a
JcuJcJcuta
(cock)
whose
The presence of
probability, meant to
photograph.
is,
in
all
tail is visible in
349
left
the
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
were not born by the union of the couple but had
existed from eternity like
all
The remaining
He
Siva.
of
life
is
seen
An
will
be found given
account of this
the
in
chapter on
Subrahmanya.
Subrahmanya with
hand
is
rishi;
Om
one
is
of
seated
his right
is
is
resting
upon
He
his lap.
One
left
down
is
seated cross-legged on
pose,
on his
left
lap.
He
him
is
Below
row
of
Behind
this
is
PLATE
Kalyanasundaramurti
Stone
CVI.
Madura.
[To face page 351]
PLATE
Kalyanasuadaramurti
Stona
Madura.
CVII.
with animal-mouthed
^IVA.
bellies {vriko-
part,
two
the fourth
is
dancing.
On
the
The
first
left
of this
is
next to him
article
is
is
seen
a lion faced
gana carrying
a round
in
leaf,
vrikodara
illustrations. Pis.
the one in
man^apa
vara temple
the
belongs to
first
the reign of
some
forty
In these
years ago.
who
is
the principal
left
with his
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
hand stretched out
right
front of
to receive
down
the gift
is
in
seen, with
Parvati keeping
in shyness,
by Siva
and on the
left is
countersunk panel
is
The whole
fire-ofiering.
of
Siva.
Brahma making
seen
subject
There
is
is
charm
great
of
with
of the sculpture
it.
noteworthy.
of the favourite
or
The
shyness
bride
is
very
represented in sculpture
vahana
very striking.
very simplicity
One
treated with
is
carries
Below, and
modes
is
in
known
Vrishabharudhamurti
aspect which
is
is
as the Vrisha-
that
hnld in high
which Siva
is,
It is
Siva
in this
veneration by the
rudhamurfi!'^*
devotees.
One
day,
among
is
streets in procession
as the
most important
of
352
all
is
held by people
the days
of
the
festival.
is
also this
described in great
form
of the
SIVA.
image
of iva
detail
Ugamas.
of this
the
left
tip of the
own
bent
wrist resting
middle finger
navel.
The
right
may
fully
its
its
hiJcJca-
a jatamaJcuta, or a
The
figure should be
is left
adorned with
a,
jata-
to the sculptor.
all
ornaments
On the
is
The
that
right
arm
of
flower.
bent and
The
left
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
hand should be hanging down
The
freely.
to the
bends in
its
figure of
measurements
;
the direction
its
The rishabha
(bull)
ces the
sitting
The
illustrations
which
in almost exactly
fit
Vrishavahanamurti
of
Vedaranyam,that reproduced
of
Taramangalam,
whose photographs
CX
In the
it is
respectively.
not the
left
and
its
hand
is
resting
is
The
instance, as in others,
first
arm that
CIX and
resting
left
on the head
arm
is
let
of
down
The
tip of the
is
The
two instead
left
is
354
slightly bent
on the
and resting
PLATE
CVlll,
Vrishavahanamurti
[To face page 354]
Bronze
Vedaranyam.
PLATE
CIX.
Vriahavahanamurti
Bronza
Visvakarma
{Dc. A. K, K.
Plate
Vrishavahanamurti
Stone
ex.
Taramangalam.
PLATE
CXI.
a.
(D
o
02
p
a)
>
Plate
cxii,
(tl
^'M
^>V
/(
^'^
f,
description given
on the head
rests
The
its toes.
in
CIX
PI.
true to the
is
JcataJca
metallic or
wooden crooked
pose to receive in
CX, the
The
arm
left
is
right leg
one
is
is
kept
front right
hand
the one on
left
a separate
it
The
stick.
PI.
Its
very
of the bull
held in the
slightly bent.
bull is as high
agamas*
the
^IVA.
it
is
is
exactly similar to
PL CIX.
on
PI.
CXI
is
of
image represented on
It
almost
resembles the
PI.
CVIII.
left
hand
On
is
Vrishavahanamurti is a Deva,
So,
scription
as
is
not available at
Mr. v. A. Smith
calls this
dance."
355
in sandhyaaritta
HINDU lOONOGEAPHY.
Here, Siva and Parvati are seated exactly as in the
aspect of Umasahita-alinganaraurti, or Somaskandamurti, on a seat placed upon the back of a full sized
bull.
In
fig. 2,
he
Siva
fig. 1,
is
In the
not.
front right
the front
left is
first
and the
is
is
of
Parvati
An
seen surrounding
is
The
first
piece of
is fitted
The
known
aspect of Siva
ranamurti appears to
as the Vishapaha-
considered
be
anugrahamurti ; since
muS*^*^*''*''^'
definitely
the
this chapter.
We
mentioned
agamas
it
is
a kind of
it
as
is
not
such in
included
in
it
for obtaining
356
ambrosia (amrita)
it.
We
have a description
Karanagama
therein
is
it
SIVA.
of this
murti in
it,
In
two
of his
the mriga
fixed
ho
is
On
the
left of
He
kinds of ornaments.
all
left
on the
side
made
terrific
HINDU ICONOGEAPHY.
be some others composed of scorpions
and in one
Since no object
hand,
it
is
first
hands the
Jcapala.
of
and a beaked
the poison
{vrichiJca).
of
may
be taken to be
In
358