Shaiva

[ shahy-vuh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

1. a Bhakti sect devoted to Shiva.

Other Words From

• Shaivite noun

Example Sentences

The key to each picture is given in the quoted text, to which the following notes are supplementary:   Facing page 3: Jaipur painting of the 18th century, very brilliant in sunset colourings, representing a girl returning from a Shaiva shrine.

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It contains 12 principal Shaiva and 4 Vaishnav temples and one dedicated to Brahm�.

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Traces of the practice are found as far back as the eighth century, for various kinds of the Auparishtaka are represented in the sculptures of many Shaiva temples at Bhuvaneshwara, near Cuttack, in Orissa, and which were built about that period.

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Their social position has been raised by their sacred character as priests of the god Siva and they are now sometimes called Shaiva Brāhmans.

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But owing to the sanctity of their calling, and the fact that they have become literate and taken service under Government, the Guraos now rank above the cultivators and are called Shaiva Brāhmans.

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