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Volume : III, Issue : II, March - 2013 CHANDESA CULT IN TAMIL NADU WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GANGAIKONDACHOLAPURAM B.PERUNDEVI Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Siva is regarded as one of the most powerful and venerated Gods of Hindu trial.
The five-faced form of Siva found in the Linga Purana, is identified as Vishvarupa or the
universal form of the God. The five faces are Isana, Tatpurusha, Agora, Vamadeva and
Sadyajatha. From the five faces of Lord twenty-five Sivamurthas have originated. Out of
these twenty-five Siva murthas, one of the most important is Chandesanugraghamurti
called personification of Bakthi and devotion. It came of one of the five faces of
Sadasivadeva, called as Vamadevam. In this paper an attempt is made to throw light on
the origin and development of Chandesa cult in Tamil Nadu. And it also reveals the
unique iconographic features of the Chandesanugrahamurthi sculpture found in
Brihadeeswara temple at Gangaikondacholapuram. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : B.PERUNDEVI, (2013). CHANDESA CULT IN TAMIL NADU WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GANGAIKONDACHOLAPURAM. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. II, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2135.pdf References : - Swami Sivananda, Lord Siva and his Worship, ( Uttar Pradesh: Divine life Society Publications, 1996), p.37.
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