3. Birth 3. Parvati, Ganesh’s mother, was hanging out at her and Shiva’s mountain home one day when she tried to go visit her husband only to be blocked by Shiva’s head attendant, Nandi.

1. Parvati’s Strict Penance to achieve Shiva's love Parvati, the daughter of King Himavan and Queen Mena, was an incarnation of Sati, the first wife of Shiva.

Kartikeya, the son of Lord Shiva and Parvati, is worshipped prominently in south India. He is known by different names - Lord Swaminatha, Lord Murugan, Skanda and more.

The child, Kartikeya, son of Lord Shiva and Parvati, struggling with the mysteries of life, in fact, provides a link to the mundane and spiritual world.

This statue of the divine Hindu couple, the great god Shiva and his wife Parvati, would have probably been placed above a door to a temple. Hindu worshippers used sculptures to develop a close ...

Stuart would, I'm sure, be pleased that after two hundred years, his sculpture of Shiva and Parvati, made around 1300 to welcome worshippers to a temple in Orissa, is still on show to the public.

The way Shiva and Parvati wed By Geetanjali Krishna Share: February 23, 2017 11:49 IST ...

One of the liveliest and most extravagant celebrations in India is Ganesh Chaturthi, which is especially observed in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. The occasion ...

Shiva Kumar: Son of Lord Shiva (Lord Ganesh, Lord Karthikeya) Skandapurvaja: Elder brother of Skand (Lord Kartik) Saurjyesh: Lord Kartikeya; The Lord of valour ...

Shiva represents contrasting values ?both lust and purity, peace and destruction. When depicted together with his wife, Parvati, he represents the union of male and female and marital fidelity.