It takes three days for the devotee to complete this parikrama. One has to walk 53 kilometers to perform parikrama to this divine mountain. It is of black (orblue) marble and is covered with ice. The waters from kailash fall in Gourikhund. Mount Kailas appears like a Siva Linga with three eyes and Bhasma Rekhas on one side. Previously this place was a part of Bharat (Tibet was known as trivishtapa in olden days) Here Mount Kailas is situated near the divine lake Manasa Sarovar. Mahakailasa:- This is the divine abode of Lord Siva situated in Tibet. Many lingas were taken out during the excavation at Babylonia, Egypt and certain as Horus (orisis (Iswara), Sebek (Sivaka), Serophus (Sarvesa) etc. These places were Assyria, Arabia, Palestine, Mecca and Madina. Further Linga Worship flourished in olden days in many parts of Asia before Islam came into existence. Worship of Linga Greatly existed in Africa, Combodia, South America West Indies, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, and Japan. Spread of Saivism in other Countries:- We have many proofs regarding the worship of Siva in other countries. There are a number of stories explaining the great qualities, tattva etc. The Greatness of bilwa and the phala of bilwarcana Siva Purana:- This voluminous work written by Veda Vyasa gives a complete knowledge about Lord Siva to the common man while Upnaishats are meant for scholars, Agamas deal mainly with ritual practices,puranas explains the greatness of the Lord in a simple manner and are meant for common man with limited knowledge. He is the controller of panca mahabhootas and ashta dikpalakas. According to this agama Siva is the Lord of this Universe from Brahma to the Sthavara Prakriti. According to Veda Vyasa, the Lord who wishes for the welfare of the living beings in all actions is Lard Siva, also one who increases all the meanings.Īccording to Siva Purana He is the purest one, who existed even before the creation of the Universe.Ĭhandrajnana Agama: This gives detailed information about Siva. The meaning of Siva : - Siva means the most auspicious one. This is the symbolic way of telling about anything which has countless features. The thousand pillar temple at Warangal in Andhra Pradesh denotes countless pillars. What is the importance of Sahasram :- Sahasram denotes numerous petals in the sahasrara kamala. I have taken the namas told by Upamanyu and tried to explain their meanings according to my capacity. Hcnce many namas pertaining to Lord Vs1nu are repeated in. There is no difference between Siva and Kesava. Thus we have sahasra namas of Lalita, Vishnu, Venkateswara, Sri Rama, Sri Hanuman, Durga and Chandi, Sai Baba etc. Thus for the different forms of the absolute paramatma, various sahasra namas came into existence. The absolute is one with no second one “ Ekam sat vpprah bahuda vadanti The namas with which Lord Vishnu worshipped Lord Shiva found in the Siva Maha Purana. The names as told by Daksha, These exist in the Santi Parva of Mahabharata.ģ. The Siva Sahasra Namas are three in number.ġ. The Meaning of Siva The Universal Lord is worshipped in the Linga form with many names, these later came in the form of Ashtotara and Sahasra Namas. Many Lingas were taken out during the excavations at Scotland and Ireland. Linga was reffered as Hours (Haras), Orisis (Iswara), Sebek (Sivaka), Serophis (Sarvesa) and with other names. In olden times Linga worship existed in many parts of Europe, Egypt etc. The excavations at these places at Babylon and other places revealed Lingas. We have so many authentic proofs that the worship of Linga flourished in Africa, Cambodia, South America, West Indies, China, Japan, Indonesia, Assyria, Arabia, Palestine, Mecca Madina and other parts of the world. This worship of Siva existed not only in India but troughout the world. She is awarded senior research fellowship from Human Resource Development Ministry Govt. She delivered nearly 500 lectures on Lalita Sahasram in India and abroad for past 25 years. She got her PhD Degree for her work "Palkuriki Somanatha's Contribution to Sanskrit Literature". Joseph Junior College, Hyderabad for Twenty years. Mudigonda Uma Siva Prasad was born Sangam-Srikakulam District (AP), Umadevi worked as a Lecturer in Sanskrit in St.