ARUNACHALA GRACE

Right click on all photographs to view enlargements    Temples have various types of idols. One type of idol is fixed, and are gen...

Shiva is known as Chandrasekhara, which means, one crowned by the Moon. Lord Shiva wears on his head the crescent of the fifth-day moon. In ...

The below sequence of photographs were taken around the time of the Shivaratri Festival; and show street performers and musicians on the str...

I am reproducing below a narrative compiled by William Forbes that explains the mythology of Shivaratri and also the grand association of th...