Talk:Ardhanarishvara

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There is little information that I've found about Ardhanarishwara on the internet but is an aspect of Shiva and Shakti that I am very intrigued with.

What I know already about Ardhanarishwara [Also Ardhanariswara, Ardhnariswara, Ardhnarishwara and a couple others that are probably out there] is that this Deity is the combined entities of Shiva and Shakti [Shakti, which is also his wife in her many forms of Devi, Durga, Kali, among other names describing a different aspect of the same thing] thus one of the names "ShivaShakti."

It would be interesting to see more information gathered here about this deity.

Ardhanaarinateshwara or Mohiniraaj is my family's kuldaivat. The main temple for us is in Nevaasa, Maharashtra near Shirdi. This avtaar is of Shiva and Vishnu to kill a rakshas who had a blessing that he cannot be killed by either a male or female. So Vishnu took mohini's avtaar and together with Shiva the avtaar is called Mohiniraaj or Ardhanaarinateshwara. I will expand on this shortly. BhooshanPathak 02:41, 11 May 2006 (UTC)BhooshanPathak


 * Most (or: all?) text in this article seems to have been copied from this web page. I have sent its webmaster an email asking if that's OK.Geke 09:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Requested move
moved (presumed uncontroversial). --rgpk (comment) 21:12, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Ardhanari → Ardhanarishvara — Ardhanarishvara is more popular name: 1430 (Ardhanarishvara: English) + 7,490 (Ardhanārīśvara: IAST equivalent) v/s 3920 Google book hits for Ardhanārī/Ardhanari. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:24, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

"God" with small letter?
I suppose one wouldn't write words such God (Christian or Muslim), Holy Ghost/Spirit, Trinity with small letter. I think that other, non-Christian and any Gods shall be respected as well. Cultural sensitivity, mutual respect and equality between all the religions would be nice: either all gods (including the Christian one) with small letter or all of them with capital one. Thank you. Այնշախոր (talk) 09:09, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * In Christianity and Islam, the word "god" is written with a capital letter when it is used as a proper noun for the name of a deity. It has nothing to do with showing respect; the Christian and Muslim gods are both named "God".  In Hinduism, the gods have names other than the word "god". Here is the page from the manual of style.   Blue Rasberry    (talk)   14:57, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

add section 'in popular culture' or 'in popular literature'
I have come across a number of works of fiction that relate/thematise the concept of half male-female with regards to Shiva. I believe it would be beneficial to readers if they were made aware of this OliverKipf (talk) 10:52, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Overlap/Duplicate with Shiva Parvati?
I was performing a free-text search ('depicted with eight arms') which returned both this page, and Shiva Parvati (as linked above). They seem to describe the same entity, and indeed some of the content and references seem to be word-for-word copies of each other. However, it is not clear to me whether this is desirable or intentional. If it is not, maybe it would be better to merge the two pages together? 142.245.59.9 (talk) 15:43, 15 August 2023 (UTC)