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Siva

noun
1.
The destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon.  Synonym: Shiva.






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"Siva" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hour of sunset when a body of our soldiery broke into a temple devoted to the worship of Siva the Destroyer. We had battered in the heavy wooden doors that protected the inner court, and within the threshold a score or more of priests fell to our swords, and a dozen dancing girls as well, attendants on the idols—self-slain ...
— Tales of Destiny • Edmund Mitchell

... shade or in sunshine; so I sought Henry Winter Davis. Like the fallen angel, Davis preferred to rule in hell rather than serve in heaven or on earth. With the head of Medusa and the eye of the Basilisk, he might have represented Siva in a Hindoo temple, and was even more inaccessible to sentiment than Thaddeus Stevens. Others, too numerous and too insignificant to particularize, were seen. These were the cuttle-fish of the party, whose appointed duty it was to obscure popular vision by clouds ...
— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor



Words linked to "Siva" :   Hindu deity, Bairava, Trimurti



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