Lord Virabhadra

jose gonzalez

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Sep 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/20/97

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Would anyone be kind enough to give me information about the worship of
Lord Virabhadra? I am especially interested in the meaning this deity
has for the Lingayat community and Kannadigas in general. Is he a form
of Bhairava? Is he related to other sons of Lord Siva like Murugan?
What is the significance of his appearing with the attributes of a
warrior? What kind of pujas are performed for him? Is it true that only
children can eat the prasada from his worship? What is the religious
significance of fire walking? Is the fire from the third eye of Ishwara
related to the fire of the Swamiji's tapas? Please feel free to reply to
either the news group or my e-mail address: rcad...@yorku.ca
Many many thanks,
Ron
P.S. I lived for a while near Chitradurga
Toronto
Canada

ramaprasad_k_v

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Sep 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/22/97

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In article , says...
>
>In article <6065ph$8...@drn.zippo.com>, Ramaprasad says...
>>
>> Veerabhadra is a form of Shiva
>> Sorry I do not know other details :-(
>>
>> Ramaprasad K V
>
>Isn't he (Veerabhadra) the same guy who took 'something' from
>KoDangi? (Kottavnu koDangi, iskonDavnu eerbhadra)
>
>:-)
>Raman.

Right :-))
Well, does anybody have an idea how this gAde came to being ?
Does it refer to some incident between Shiva & Hanumanta ?

Ramaprasad K V

Ravi Kumar

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Sep 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/22/97

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why is koDangi connected to a monkey? I thought kodangi was
a donkey . :-). In the Cinderella drama by Prabhat kalaavidaru, the
clown is called the kodangi.

The gaade probably has no history, but sounds nice and 'rhymie'.

Which reminds me of a horrible twist to a good gaade.

shiva poojege *KORADIGE* bitta haage, used to mean, forgetting
something very important . But folks changed it to ...
shiva poojege 'KARADI' bitta haage which means god knows what..

ramaprasad_k_v

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Sep 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/22/97

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In article , jose says...

>
>Would anyone be kind enough to give me information about the worship of
>Lord Virabhadra? I am especially interested in the meaning this deity
>has for the Lingayat community and Kannadigas in general. Is he a form
>of Bhairava? Is he related to other sons of Lord Siva like Murugan?

Veerabhadra is a form of Shiva

Sorry I do not know other details :-(

Ramaprasad K V

Swamy Bale

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Sep 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/23/97

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In article <6065ph$8...@drn.zippo.com> Ramaprasad K V writes:
>In article , jose says...
>>
>>Would anyone be kind enough to give me information about the worship of
>>Lord Virabhadra? I am especially interested in the meaning this deity
>>has for the Lingayat community and Kannadigas in general. Is he a form
>>of Bhairava? Is he related to other sons of Lord Siva like Murugan?
>
> Veerabhadra is a form of Shiva
> Sorry I do not know other details :-(
>
> Ramaprasad K V

Veerabhadra is not a form of Lord Shiva. He is the son of Shiva like
Vinayaka and Subramanya, but born from the anger of Shiva.

During Daksha( father of Shiva's first wife Dakhsayini) yagna, Lord Shiva
was not invited, but Dakshayini insists on going. When she came to the
ceremony, nobody cared for her. Taking it as an insult, she jumps into the
fire. Shiva got angry and created Veerabhadra to destroy the whole
venue and kill Daksha.

If you need more information, you have to read Shiva Purana. (This info was
gathered from my grandmother when I was young).

Swamy
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Sep 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/23/97

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Swamy Bale wrote:
> Veerabhadra is not a form of Lord Shiva. He is the son of Shiva like
> Vinayaka and Subramanya, but born from the anger of Shiva.
>
> During Daksha( father of Shiva's first wife Dakhsayini) yagna, Lord Shiva
> was not invited, but Dakshayini insists on going. When she came to the
> ceremony, nobody cared for her. Taking it as an insult, she jumps into the
> fire. Shiva got angry and created Veerabhadra to destroy the whole
> venue and kill Daksha.
>
> If you need more information, you have to read Shiva Purana. (This info was
> gathered from my grandmother when I was young).
>
> Swamy

Isnt Dakshayini (daughter of Daksha) one of the other names of
Parvati ? I had heard the part of her inisiting on going inspite of
not being invited and getting insulted at the yagna but had not heard
the part about her jumping into the fire.

Not meant as a posting to correct you but just curious ..

Nara

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Swamy Bale [CONTRACTOR]

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Sep 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/23/97

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In article <34280A...@snt.bellsouth.com> Nara Raghavendra <yhm...@snt.bellsouth.com> writes:
>Swamy Bale wrote:
>> Veerabhadra is not a form of Lord Shiva. He is the son of Shiva like
>> Vinayaka and Subramanya, but born from the anger of Shiva.
>>
>> During Daksha( father of Shiva's first wife Dakhsayini) yagna, Lord Shiva
>> was not invited, but Dakshayini insists on going. When she came to the
>> ceremony, nobody cared for her. Taking it as an insult, she jumps into the
>> fire. Shiva got angry and created Veerabhadra to destroy the whole
>> venue and kill Daksha.
>>
>> If you need more information, you have to read Shiva Purana. (This info was
>> gathered from my grandmother when I was young).
>>
>> Swamy
>
>Isnt Dakshayini (daughter of Daksha) one of the other names of
>Parvati ? I had heard the part of her inisiting on going inspite of
>not being invited and getting insulted at the yagna but had not heard
>the part about her jumping into the fire.
>

No. Dakshayini was reborn as Parvati, daughter of Parvataraja.

>Not meant as a posting to correct you but just curious ..
>
>Nara
>
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S.Umashankar

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Sep 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/24/97

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> This is what I recall as heard...
>
> Dakshayini is the daughter of Daksha and Parvathi is the daughter of
> Himavantha (?). After Dakshayini's death, Shiva goes of for tapas.
> and Dakshayini is reborn as Parvathi. The Suras ask Manmathha to
> break the tapas of Shiva so the Shiva-Parvathi marriage could happen.
> (Why?) Manmatha shoots his arrow at Shiva and sure succeeds, but is
> destroyed by Shiva's anger (third eye).
>
> Raman.

I think this not the end. After this Shiva marries Girija (Daughter of
Himavath). Then Subramanya is born who kills Tharakasura!! The Shiva's
tapas is broken by Manmatha at the request of Indira who is threatened
by Tharakasura. Tharakasura thinks that Shiva will never marry again and
requests Brahma that his death should come from Shiva's son!!

(Kalidasa's kumara-sambhava is about this )

Umashankar

Holla

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Sep 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/25/97

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Raman KV (ram...@metabyte.com) wrote:

: Isn't he (Veerabhadra) the same guy who took 'something' from

: KoDangi? (Kottavnu koDangi, iskonDavnu eerbhadra)

:-))))))))))))))))))))
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Holla

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Raman KV (ram...@metabyte.com) wrote:

[..........]
: 'paapi samudrakke hoadroo moNakaaludda neeru'
: Which sea is this?!
[..........]

I guess it is used to represent very unlucky situations.
One gets bored of all sorts of unlucky things and decides to
commit suicide and goes to a sea, thinking that he can drown.
But there also his badluck strikes and the sea has only
'moNakAludda nIru' .

Ravi Kumar

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Raman KV wrote:

> In article <3427199C...@centtech.com>, Ravi says...
> >
> ...
> >
> In the words of Poornachandra Tejaswi, in one of the stories
> in 'Parisarada kathegaLu' 'Shiva pooje madhye karaDi bandare, pooje
> maaDuvavarirali, sakshaath shivane paraari keeLuvudaralli anumaana illa' !!
>
> There are quite a few which we know which situation it can be
> used in but don't know why it is said so eg:
>
> 'Oori gobbaLe Padmavathi !'
> Any story about a single female in entire town.
> Pretty bad situation huh?
>
> 'chor gurugobba chanDaala shishya'
> Cool one.But I don't see the alliance.
> They are two different professions, What's the link?!
>

This should be obvious. Dr. Frankenstein and Ivan. Ivan used
to dig up corpses for the good doctor's experiments. :-)

> 'paapi samudrakke hoadroo moNakaaludda neeru'
> Which sea is this?!
>

.. means even the ocean will recede.

> 'Rameshwarakke hoadroo shaneeshwara biDalilla'
> Poor guy, but what's the story?!
>
> Raman.

Shivakumar G V

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Ravi Kumar (ra...@centtech.com) wrote:
:
: shiva poojege *KORADIGE* bitta haage, used to mean, forgetting

: something very important . But folks changed it to ...
: shiva poojege 'KARADI' bitta haage which means god knows what..

This is nowadays used in the sense of "kabab mein haDDi"
of Hindi.
shivu

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