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); *another
view*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
Shiva and his army, including 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); *a larger view
of the left print*
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);
*a larger view of the right-hand print*;
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 whole scene of the wedding (bazaar art); *one more, very elegant view*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2013
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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