Another version has it that Parvati performed prayers on the auspicious moonless night of Shiva Ratri to ward off any evil that may befall her husband. Since then, women pray for the well-being of ...

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.

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.

The festival, which marks the marriage of Lord Shiva with Parvati, started in the 17th century in Sambalpur. Earlier, the divine wedding was being organised in Someswar Baba temple in Balibandha.

Shiva very detached, never takes offence, and Parvati takes all his offences on his behalf it seems. Shiva-Parvati, Lakshmi-Narayan are in one sense the same person manifest in two different forms.