Shaiva
- noun
- As a devoted Shaiva, he participated in rituals honoring the god Shiva every Monday.
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In India, a Shaiva often seeks spiritual guidance from a guru within their community.
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The teachings of a Shaiva emphasize the importance of inner devotion and understanding Shiva's nature.
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Both Mattamayura inscriptions and Shaiva.
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Liberation in Shaiva Siddhanta was defined as "becoming like Shiva."
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The otukkam described by Yocum resonates with descriptions of a particular seat for the guru in Shaiva texts.
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I have found it useful to combine textual sources with an account of social and ritual activities at a Shaiva matha in South India published by anthropologist Glenn Yocum in 1990.
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Yet within a medieval Shaiva context, delight and destruction may be seen as complementary rather than opposites, for it was Shiva's power to destroy a practitioner's ritual impurities that made liberation possible.
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At the time of the monastery's construction, Chandrehe belonged to a larger network of monastic sites associated with a Shaiva (Shiva-worshiping) sect known as the Mattamayuras.
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Although these texts frequently diverge on many key points and reflect practices that might not necessarily have been current in central India, they are worth considering, particularly because Mattamayura gurus make explicit reference to the sect's knowledge and use of Shaiva scriptures that may have had a pan-Indic circulation.
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Synonyms
A person who follows the Hindu god Shiva
How Devoted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shaiva comes from the name Shiva and originally meant 'a follower of Shiva'. So a Shaiva is a person who follows, believes in, or worships Shiva.