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| | Shan Ranjit - Saivaism in Independent Tamil Eelam |
 | | It is believed that even Devanampiya Tissa was a Saivite, who later converted to Buddhism due to King Ashoka’s influence. | | | Though Buddhism posed some challenge to Saivaism in Eelam, their impact on Saivaism is not considered to be that significant. | | | Many Saivites interpret this as “the Lord Siva who resides in Kauai.” It is also believed that Subramuniya Swami had a vision one night in the early 1970 about Lord Siva residing near his ashram in the form of a Siva lingam. |
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| | Protect Preserve and Promote the Saiva Dharma |
| | Saivite Hinduism is the greatest religion in the world. | | | Saivite monasticism was once a powerful spiritual force in the world when the majarajas supported the monastics, and it will continue to be so through the support of the families, their children and their children's children. | | | The Saivite religion is a very powerful religion. |
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| | Hinduism Today Nov 1980 |
| | Saivites born into the religion are encouraged to use it in classes for the youth. | | | There are millions of Saivites who know these words to be true but who do not have enough knowledge about their religion to give a comprehensive presentation of it to their inquisitive youth raised to give a comprehensive presentation of it to their inquisitive youth raised in Western schools. | | | There are millions of Saivites throughout the world seeking to know more about their religion and eager to assist the new generation of Saivite youth to learn, live, and fulfill their Saiva dharma. |
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http://www.hinduismtoday.com/1980/11/1980-11-03.html
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| | Saivites Rituals |
| | Saivites believe that there is no exclusive path to God, that no spiritual path can rightly claim that it alone leads to the goal. | | | Saivites consider Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra to be three of five aspects of Siva. | | | Saivites direct their worship primarily to Siva as represente d by the aniconic Siva Linga, and the human-like murtis, Nataraja and Ardhanarishvara. |
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| | Saiva Siddhanta - Open Encyclopedia |
| | They are revered by the Siddha Siddhantins, Kashmîr Saivites and even by the Nepalese branches of Buddhism. | | | Today Saiva Siddhanta is most prominent among sixty million Tamil Saivites who live mostly in South India and Sri Lanka. |
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| | Living with Siva, Chapter 51: Hindu Solidarity |
| | Saivites who are firm and proud of their religion will be respected wherever they go throughout the world. | | | I was at a Saivite institution the other day and was shocked to find that Jesus, Krishna and Buddha were there together on the altar in the prayer room. | | | Are you a member of the Saivite Hindu religion? |
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http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/lws/lws_ch-51.html
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| | Vaishnavism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Vaishnavites, like Saivites, believe that there is only one God, who simultaneously permeates all creation and exists beyond it, being both immanent and transcendent. | | | The concept is in contrast with many Semitic religious traditions, where God is seen as transcendent only. | | | It is likely that a majority (75-80%) of today's Hindus would consider themselves Vaishnava, if pressed to make a distinction. |
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| | Dancing with Siva, Mandala 3: Saivite Hinduism |
| | Saivites profoundly know that God Siva is the same Supreme Being in whom peoples of all faiths find solace, peace and liberation. | | | Saivite leaders support and participate in ecumenical gatherings with all religions. | | | Still, Saivites defend their faith, proceed contentedly with their practices and avoid the enchantment of other ways, be they ancient or modern. |
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| | Q 7: You said that temple going is a must of all Saivites for them to access and explore the Metaphysical realms where resides the gods. | | | So far the Saivite life you have painted appears to be a PASSIVE life - go to the temples, worship this deity or that deity, study these scriptures, sing these hymns, recite these mantras, don’t do these but do these and so forth. | | | A Saivite is FREE to produce his own scriptures or at least attempt at such productions and he will succeed in adding to the already existing pool of scriptures if he happens to be blessed by BEING in such productive tasks. |
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| | Hinduism Today May 1995 |
| | When the spiritual energy, shakti, invoked by the puja permeates the sanctum sanctorum and floods out to the world, Saivites know they are in a most holy place where God and the Gods commune with them. | | | It is in the purified milieu of the temple that the three worlds commune most perfectly, that devotees can establish harmony with inner-plane spiritual beings. | | | All Saivites visit the temple on Siva's most sacred day of the year, Mahashivaratri. |
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| | Siddha Community: The Saivite Hindu Religion |
| | Siva's followers all BELIEVE that religion is the harmonious working together of the three worlds and that this harmony can be created through temple worship, wherein the beings of all three worlds can communicate. | | | Saivite Hindus are truly compassionate, knowing that ultimately there is no good or bad. | | | Who Follow the Saivite Hindu Religion And Worship Lord Siva as Supreme God |
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| | Dancing with Siva, Mandala 20: Festivals |
| | Saivites offer special prayers to Siva, Ganesha and Karttikeya on propitious days each month according to the Hindu sacred calendar. | | | Saivites observe numerous festivals in the temple and the home, and special holy days each week and month. | | | Festivals are auspicious and sacred days of family and community togetherness, and of sadhana, fasting, meditation, worship and retreat from worldly concerns. |
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| | Hinduism Today Apr 1983 |
| | For many of the pilgrims, it was their first times to the holy lands of Saivite Hinduism, the first time worshipping in the physically impressive, and spiritually powerful stone temples. | | | For Gurudeva it was also, no doubt, a richly rewarding spiritual pilgrimage to the holy temples to worship God Siva and his two sons. | | | Accompanying him were forty members of Saiva Siddhanta Church, adoptive or converts to the Saivite faith. |
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| | Chapter Three: Virtue |
| | The observance of Saivite festivals in the home and temple, including guru puja days, brings deep communion with God during highly spiritual times of the year. | | | The Saivite religion, when properly practiced, brings the devotee close to the Holy Feet of supreme God Siva. | | | There are many Saivites who have taken the brahmachariya vrata and eagerly look forward to learning "advanced" yoga techniques. |
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| | Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Hinduism - |
| | Much like a single individual may be referred to as the daughter of someone, the friend of another, or the sister of yet another, Hinduism allows each individual to describe and develop a personal relationship with their chosen god in the form of an avatar. | | | Most of the remaining 20% are Saivites, who worship Lord Siva ; the remainder is devoted Sakti[?], Isvara[?] or the dark goddess Kali. | | | Some acknowledge all of the above as true avatara, thus increasing the traditional count of ten (including Kalki, who has yet to appear) to as much as 27. |
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| | World Saivism |
| | Saivites in S.Africa are purists of a kind and because which they do not want to acknowldge even the worship of Murukan and Vinayaka as part of the Saivite lore. | | | Well the gauteng Saivites objected to the inclusion of those prayers, saying that it is not of Saivism. | | | You will remember the Saivite prayer manual that was launched at the conference in Durban in1996which contain many prayers to dieties like Ganasha and Murugan. |
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| | Proxy Image of Lord and Bhoga Srinivasa, - Chapter 24 of `Tirupati Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine,' By Dr. K. Jamanadas ... |
| | Therefore, it is certain that these Seven Pagodas were meant to be Buddhist structures and had to be relinquished by Buddhist because of anti-Buddhist sentiments all around and though the Buddhists had started the work, they could not finish it. | | | Yet the fact that these Siva shrines are in a style architecture traditionally associated with the Buddhists, seems to imply that they were a type of structure not the monopoly of any one religion, but had a common origin. | | | Now the Saivites and Vaishnavites had no reason to work together, as the Buddhists were suppressed. |
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| | Shiva, the Auspicious One |
| | With names such as Mahadeva ("the great god") and Nataraja ("the king of dancers"), he is venerated in ancient holy cities like Benares, where Saivites (as his worshipers are called) devote their lives to him, viewing him as the Supreme Lord. | | | Saivites, however, tend to see Shiva not just as the greatest devotee but as God Himself. | | | Shiva is among the most widely worshiped deities in India. |
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| | Sri Kandaswamy Kovil |
| | A "Vel" was installed in the said land by His Holiness Sri Murugaswamy, an eminent Saivite, and a small temple with Gopuram was completed in 1909. | | | The Ceylon Tamils living in both these areas were devout Saivites and as they fervently believed that "no one should live in a place that has no Temple ", they soon began to organize themselve into Associations. | | | The First Maha Kumba Abishegam of the Sri Kandaswamy Temple was held on 9th February, 1909 (Tamil year Keelaga 28th day of the Tamils month "Thai"). |
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| | A Daily Chronicle of Kauai's Hindu Monastery |
| | Saivites have moved their religion forward for five to ten thousand years. | | | Saivites have the greatest and philosophically most comprehensive and deeply experiential religion in the world. | | | At no time in history has the Saivite religion not been on this planet. |
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| | His Tamil book 'Saivaththai Ariyunkal' deals with all aspects of Saiva religion, and is useful to all the Saivites to have a clear understanding of their religion. | | | This book was written years ago by Doctor, Pandit M. Kanthiah of Erlalai, who is the known top most scholar in Saiva Siddhanta philosophy and Saiva religion, living among us today. | | | Another Tamil book 'Sivapuranam Vilakkavurai' explain the meanings of and philosophy behind the Sivapuranam lines. |
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| | The Sai Religion |
| | Whom the Muslims adore as Allah, whom the Christians adore as Jehovah, whom the Vaishnavas adore as Phullabja-aksha, whom the Saivites adore as Sambhu, who grants, in answer to their several prayers, health, long life, prosperity and happiness to all, wherever they may be, He, the One God, is the God of all mankind. | | | The most widespread of these dualities is the Saivite and Vaishnavite faiths, centered around the Siva and Vishnu aspects of the One. | | | But, since faith in the One comes into awareness only to a mind clarified to the utmost, the religion had soon to posit duality, and even multiplicity, with deities for every facet of the Whole. |
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| | Intamm - Education - The Role of Buddhist |
| | Later on the saivites created the legend that Siva was the originator of Tamil and it was from Him that Agasthiar learnt Tamil and gave it to the world. | | | It was when they could not heal the Pandian king of his fever by their magical powers, Tirugnana sambandar a saivite saint cured him by applying Tiruneeru (Sacred ashes) and then converted him into Saivism from Jainism. | | | But the very fact that they gave a divine origin to Tamil brings out in no uncertain terms the great love and respect the Buddhists had, for the Tamil language. |
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| | The Hindu : Mystical treatise |
| | Hence the Saivites revere this work as the outcome of divine grace. | | | His biography states that a celestial being transmigrated into a cowherd's body known as Mulan and through him exemplified the truths of the Agamas in chaste Tamil with rhythmic composition. | | | It deals with variegated themes such as ethics, religion, metaphysics, tantric cult, mysticism and occultism, but the main focus lies in elucidating the basic tenets of Saiva religion and philosophy. |
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| | Tamil Saivaism |
| | Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana and Mahabarata are not part of the Tamil Saivite religion. | | | Tamil Saivites recognize only the Saiva Thirumraigal as their holy scriptures. | | | Tamil Saivites have adequate literature in their religion. |
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| | Hinduism Today Aug 1982 |
| | Eastern Saivites were rejuvenated, encouraged, and emboldened to take a hard look at the problems facing the Saivite religion. | | | In the city of Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, alone, some 80,000 people turned out for a two-hour welcome parade down the mains street, with joyous citizens showering the pilgrims with baskets of flower petals from the rooftops as they rode by in their rickshaws and horse-drawn carriages. | | | The repercussions of last year's pilgrimage are still resounding throughout Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India prompting at least as many receptions for the Western Saivite Sat Guru and pilgrims as were arranged last year. |
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| | Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary: Adi-Ag, Theosophical University Press |
| | Saivites (devotees of Siva) recognize 28 agamas as continuing the full doctrine; Saktas list 77 agamas or tantras; Vaishnavas (followers of Vishnu) regard the Pancharatra Agamas as their sacred books; and the Jain agamas as a whole constitute the Jain canon. |
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| | srikurmanadhatemple.org |
| | The ancient people say that this place also called as panchalingaswara and the god is called kurmaswara According to our ancient’s sayings at first this temple worshiped by the saivites as Lord Siva. | | | According to our ancient’s sayings at first this temple worshiped by the saivites as Lord siva. | | | Aadi Ramanujalu, Aadi Sankarulu’s Disciples, Madvacharya’s disciples Narahari thirthulu those people worship the god. |
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| | BANGLAPEDIA: Tilak |
| | The tripundra is obligatory for Saivites who believe that it is as auspicious as bathing in the Ganges and reciting the names of Vishnu and Shiva. | | | It is believed that the tilak was introduced by the Saivites and then spread among other sects. | | | There appears to be some links between the tilak and the worship of folk deities. |
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| | anywhereindia.com Tourist Details |
| | This place is equally sacred to both Vaishnavites and Saivites. | | | According to Hindu Mithology, if one will visit Rameswaram and pray Lord Shiva means, the whole sins will be relieved from the body. |
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| | Who are the Vaishnavas? |
| | The Sankirtan movement of Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai's time embraced, and was embraced by Saivites, Muslims and Buddhists. | | | Vaishnavas, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Pure Land Buddhists, Saivites, members of many Indigenous traditions and other devotees of the Supreme Lord, since ancient times and to the present, practiced and still practice Nama-bhajan. | | | Nama-bhajan -- or the simplest form of the heartfelt invocation of God by His Holy Name -- is common to all great bhakti traditions. |
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| | ¾¢ÕÅ¡º¸õ 13-11 |
| | For Siva stands ABOVE all deities including here VishNu the Lord of Whole Cosmos, the Purusha which according to the Saivites is also a form BEING assumes as He does all other forms or archetypal forms of the celestial beings. | | | Despite what may sound a kind of religious patriotism that centers on the worship of Siva, but SIVA as BEING is worshiped so for an important reason. | | | During the Bakti period we have all the great Saivite saints composing moving hymns describing this DANCE. |
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| | How God Skanda Helps the Faithful |
| | is popularly known among the Hindus as God Skanda and the Saivites of South India call the god Subrahmanya. | | | The other names applicable to the deity, as mentioned in the Hindu texts are : Kandasamy, Kadiradeva, Kadiravel, Tarakajit etc., and in the Hindu Puranas (ancient holy scriptures), the names associated with him are : Guha, Saktidhara, Gangaputra, Sarabhu, Yudaranga, Irjukaya etc. |
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| | Vishnu Siva Mandir -- THE MYSTERY AND WORSHIP OF SIVA |
| | Siva is worshipped by Hindus all over the world, either as one of the Trinity in the Vedic tradition or as the Supreme deity by the Saivites, whether they be of South Indian Saiva Siddhantha chapter, Veerasaivas, Kapalis or Kashimiri Saivites. | | | One of the most ancient known hymns to Rudra is found in the Satarudriya (1,OOO B.C.), a litany of the Yajur Veda. | | | The significance of this hymn is heightened by the fact that it contains the five syllabled Pancaksara mantra, Namah Sivaya, to which Saivites attach the highest sanctity. |
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| | Kauai's Hindu Monastery, Publications |
| | Saivite Hindu Religion Book 3 Parent's Guide (This is based on a new version of Book 3 still in production. | | | PDF Documents for those wishing to teach the Saivite Hindu Religion children's course. | | | Saivite Hindu Religion Book 2 Professional Teacher's Guide |
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| | BANGLAPEDIA: Adinath Temple |
| | Natha philosophy evolved out of the long association of the Saivites with the Buddhists and in the 10th-11th centuries emerged Tantric Shastras. | | | It may be that one of the disciples of Goraksanatha may have named the ghat at Maheshkhali after the guru. |
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| | Shaivistic and Bhakti Roots of Kashmiri Religion |
| | The Kashmir Saivite is not so much concerned with worshiping a personal God as he is with attaining the transcendental state of Siva consciousness. | | | The priests follow manuals called paddhati, which are summaries of the instructions for worship contained in the Saiva Agamas, specifically the shodasha upacharas, or sixteen acts of puja worship, such as offering of food, incense and water. | | | In the search for peace, enlightenment and Liberation, no path is more tolerant, more mysticaL, more widespread or more ancient than Saivite Hinduism. |
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| | Welcome to Saivism Website |
| | Thus, the Saivites are exposed to and exploited by forces immical to Saiva religion, from inside and outside. | | | It is also necessary that Saivites should have atleast the basic knowledge on all aspects of Saivism. | | | Their ignorance of Saivism has helped large-scale conversion to alien faith which never attracted the educated and knowledgeable in the society. |
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http://www.geocities.com/shivaperuman
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| | The evolution of Siva Agamams in Tamil Nadu |
| | The Saivite Religious Dignitaries too should endevour to do intensive study of the Agamas and bring forth and preach the salient features of the "Agamic religious philosopy which is the "Saiva Siththantham", to all Saivites. | | | The religious scriptures - namely the Agamas and Vedas - of the two religions the Saivaism and Vedism, were practised side by side in Saivite Temples in the pre-medieval, medieval, and post-medieval Tamil Nadu. | | | It will be most welcome if the Temple Priests themselves could come forward to put them into print and publish them, to the easy access of all Scholars and others who will be interested in same. |
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| | Chapter 30 - Tirupati Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine - By Dr. K. Jamanadas |
| | Even otherwise, the Alvaras and Naynaras were hostile towards Buddhists, and their evidence is useless in discussing a claim for a Buddhist image. | | | Later on many be the Saivites were allured for conversion, and so Shaivas had to start a centre at Tiruchokkinur to oppose Vaishnavas, around 1000 A.D. However, an intermediate step can be contemplated where the Buddhist devotees first became Saivites. | | | It may be noted that identification of Potalka can not be on exuberance of Tara images alone, but there should be definite evidence to shown that it was being converted to Maheshvara, and search for Potalka should be among the shrines converted for Brahmanic use. |
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| | What Difference does Religious Plurality Make? by M. Thomas Thangaraj |
| | The spirituality of the Saivite saints, especially their hymnic writings, became part of my spiritual heritage. | | | I began to see more clearly my need to be in dialogue with Hindus, especially the Saivites, to make sense of my own faith. | | | My book, "The Crucified Guru: An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Christology", is an attempt to understand and articulate one's faith in Christ through the category of "Guru" in the Tamil Saivite tradition. |
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| | This is advaita with a difference and because of which it is called Sudhadvaita by Tamil Saivites. | | | This shape of the Full Moon is that which blesses the anmas with Pure LOVE, the kind of state of Being that is the precondition for blessing the anmas with the redeeming Civanjanam. | | | It has been claimed that the highest spiritual experience is that of emptying all thoughts and hence all dualities, dichotomies and so forth and stand glowing in Pure Consciousness, the Cutta Caitanyam. |
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| | Sectarian unity |
| | Though the idea of one God was tacitly acknowledges, Vaishnavites considered themselves as distinct from Saivites, and superior to them in spiritual terms; the Saivites, on the other hand, similarly held themselves to be superior to the Vaishnavites. | | | Hindus were then divided into distinct sects on the basis of the deity they worshipped; a major schism split apart Vaishnavites and Saivites. |
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| | Welcome to Srouta Saiva Siddhanta |
| | However, Saivites have taken the etymology for the word Nirgunam as " Nirgata Gunah Yasmat Tat Nirgunam ", meaning where from the Gunas are coming out i.e. | | | Gunas as interpreted by Adwaitins, the question of birth, existence and destruction of the Bhootas stated by the Sruti vakyam and referred to by the Sutra vakyam both become meaningless. | | | The Adwaitins have taken the etymology for the word Nirgunam, as " Na Vidyante Gunaa Yasmin, Tat Nirgunam ", meaning that the Tatwam is Gunarahitam or devoid of Gunas. |
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| | Surya Brahmin Samaj |
| | Saivites revere Surya, the Sun God each morning as Siva Surya. | | | Smartas and Vaishnavas revere the golden orb as Surya Narayana. |
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| | Vaikasi Visakam and Lord Murukan |
| | Vaikāsi Visākam is important to the Saivites, Vaishnavites and the Buddhists. | | | To the Saivites, it is the day of the descent of Murukan; to the Vaishnavites it is Periyalvar's jayanti and to the Buddhists it is the day of the great miracles of nativity, enlightenment and maha samadhi of Buddha. | | | The descent of Murukan is referred to as the Shanmuga avatāram. |
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http://murugan.org/research/duraiswamy-vaikasi-visakam.htm
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| | - Aspects Of Our Religion - Our Religion (page3) |
| | The Saivites call him Siva and the Vaishnavites call him Vishnu. | | | The Saivites too acknowledge allegiance to the Vedas. | | | But they do not refer to God by the same name. |
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