Shiva as an ascetic, deep in solitary
meditation (modern bazaar art); *another such
view*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
"Meditating Shiva," a modern batik
Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/BI63/
(downloaded Apr. 2006)
As a
wandering ascetic, Shiva collects alms from the goddess Annapurna
(modern bazaar art)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
Shiva and some of his unsavory, quasi-demonic "gana" troops
(bazaar art, c.1980's)
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
The
powerful ascetic Shiva defends his devotee Markandeya from Yama, the
god of death, in a print from the Ravi Varma Press, 1910's; *a later version from the Ravi Varma Press,
1910's*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2009
Shiva's terrifying aspect, as he defends his devotee Markandeya
from Yama, the god of death (a modern religious print)
Source: ebay, June 2008
Kali dances while Shiva plays the drum, with ganas and female demons; a
modern
painting
Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/HP73/
(downloaded Sept. 2008)
The "erotic ascetic": two images in bazaar art from the 1940's
Source: ebay, June 2005
Shiva's marriage to Uma, or Sati, ends when she enters the fire
and dies; he is desolate, and returns to his ascetic ways; a modern
pata chitra
Source: http://exoticindia.com/product/PC83/
(downloaded Dec. 2004)
Parvati (the former Uma, now reborn) performs severe austerities to win
Shiva as her husband;
bazaar art, c.1970's (left) and c.1990's (right)
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
She also worships the lingam (bazaar
art, c.1990's)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
In another bid for Shiva's attention,
Parvati dances before his image (bazaar art, c.1990's)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
At Parvati's instigation, Kamdev shoots the meditating Shiva with
an arrow of desire-- but then is burnt to ashes (the pile of ashes is
shown in the lower right) and becomes "Ananga"; a
Madhubani painting by Vidya Devi and Dhirendra Jha
Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/DC75/
(downloaded Oct. 2004)
Another Madhubani view, by Vidya Devi
and Dhirendra Jha; in the lower left, flames shoot out from Kamdev's
body
Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/DJ74/
(downloaded Sept. 2008)
The result: playful moments in the forest (bazaar art, c.1980's); other
similar
views: *the two wander in the
Himalayas*; *the
two hunt in the forest*; *the two
wear
similar jewelry*; *the two
dance together*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007 and later
Two views of the wedding of Shiva and Parvati; bazaar art,
c.1980's
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
The wedding (bazaar art, 1990's)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
The marriage of Shiva and Parvati is attended by all the gods,
and
by Shiva's quasi-demonic ganas (upper right), in a modern madhubani by
Dhirendra Jha
Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/DE47/
(downloaded Feb. 2005)
The wedding procession is led by two
skeletons and a ghoulish gana, in this modern Orissan pata-chitra
version
Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/PK44/
(downloaded Sept. 2008)
She joins him in the forest (bazaar
art, mid-1900's)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
In this modern Bengali religious
print, Uma/Parvati is presented independently, and has even come to
share
Shiva's cosmically powerful third eye
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
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