Śiva
Śiva
Śiva is a name used for more than one devatā, being and river in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
Devatās
- Śiva: Bhagavān Śiva, also called Mahādeva and Rudra, in the Śaiva Purāṇas the supreme Parabrahman, the source, sustainer and dissolver of all creation. Skanda Purāṇa; Śiva Purāṇa; Liṅga Purāṇa; Varāha Purāṇa; Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa; Bhāgavata Purāṇa; Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa; Garuḍa Purāṇa; Mahābhārata, Vana Parva; Mahābhārata, Anuśāsana Parva; Mahābhārata, Sauptika Parva; Vāmana Purāṇa; Agni Purāṇa; Bhavishya Purāṇa; Brahma Purāṇa
- Śivā (wife of Anila): the wife of Anila, one of the eight Vasus, and the mother of his two sons, Manojava and Avijñātagati. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 3
People
- Śiva (son of Hlada): a daitya of the line of Hiraṇyakaśipu, named once among the descendants of Diti and Kaśyapa; he is not Bhagavān Śiva. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 3
- Śiva (son of Medhātithi): the fifth of the seven sons of Medhātithi, lord of Plaksha-dvīpa, who ruled that dvīpa with his brothers. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20
Places
- Śivā (River): a river or tīrtha whose water is held in the mind in the abhisheka of Bhagavān Sūrya, named between the Tāpī and the Vetravatī. Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 55
- Śivā (River of Kuśa Dvīpa): a river of Kuśa-dvīpa that removes all pāpa, named second among the rivers of that dvīpa. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20
Named in passing
- Śivā, the Devī: a name of Devī Pārvatī; the place where Śambhu, together with Śivā, was pleased with Viśvāvasu is the Śaiva tīrtha Durgātīrtha on the Gautamī, told on Pārvatī. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 62