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Atmalinga
Shiva's own linga, granted to Ravana after his penance on the condition that it never touch the ground before Lanka…
Ketaki flower
screwpine · kewda · Pandanus odorifer
The fragrant screwpine blossom that, in the Shiva Purana line of the pillar-of-light story, falls from the top of the…
Pashupatastra
Shiva's own missile, granted to Arjuna after the hunter's duel in the Mahabharata's Vana Parva. Stub entity.
Pinaka
Shiva's bow, the weapon of the Vedic archer Rudra and of the Tripura story, where Mount Meru serves as the bow and…
Shiva linga
Lingam · Jyotirlinga · Mukhalinga · Ishtalinga
The aniconic pillar in which Shiva is worshipped in almost every temple, read by the tradition as the formless taking a…
Trishula
Trident
Shiva's three-pronged spear, the weapon on which Andhaka was impaled and, in the popular Bhimashankar telling, that…