Pashupata Shaivism (Pāśupata, Sanskrit: पाशुपत) is one of the oldest major Shaivite Hindu schools. The mainstream which follows Vedic Pāśupata penance are 'Mahāpāśupata'...

Shaivism, Shaiva Siddhanta and Pratyabhijña (Kashmir Shaivism). Pāśupata Shaivism (Pāśupata, 'of Paśupati') is the oldest of the major Shaiva schools. The...

Agnyastra (the fire missile) with the rain missile and Rudra’s special Pāśupata missile with his own Nārāyaṇāstra. — Bhagavata Purana, Book 10, Chapter...

Dattātreya, Gāruḍa Atharvasiras, Atharvaśikha, Bṛhajjābāla, Śarabha, Bhasma, Gaṇapati Śāṇḍilya, Pāśupata, Mahāvākya Total Upaniṣads 108 13 21 18 8 14 14 20...

charnel ground. According to Samuel, one group of Shaiva ascetics, the Pasupatas, practiced a form of spirituality that made use of shocking and disreputable...

Purāṇa considers Buddhists, Jains as well as some Shaiva groups like the Paśupatas and Kāpālins to be pāṣaṇḍas (heretics). According to Alexis Sanderson...

In the early centuries of the common era is the first clear evidence of Pāśupata Shaivism. The inscriptions found in the Himalayan region, such as those...

adds that Buddhists and Kapalikas as well as other ascetics (possibly Pasupatas) mingled and discussed their paths at various pilgrimage places and that...

Cekik in the island's west. In ancient Bali, nine Hindu sects existed, the Pasupata, Bhairawa, Siwa Shidanta, Vaishnava, Bodha, Brahma, Resi, Sora and Ganapatya...

etc. as well as other schools such as Raseswera, Paninya, Pratyabhijna, Pasupata Shaivism, Shaivism etc. Indian thought has been concerned with various...

liberatory initiation appears to have been borrowed from a Pashupata (pāśupata) tradition. At the time of the early development of the theology of the...

Although Rudra remains the primary designation of the god, e.g., in the Pāśupata ascetic tradition, lay devotees preferred to address him as Śiva, Maheśvara...

Veerashaivism. However, Veerashaivism differs from Agamic Shaivism and Pasupata Shaivism in its philosophy, in its doctrine of sthala, in the special kind...

are other schools that are sometimes seen as orthodox. These include: Paśupata, an ascetic school of Shaivism founded by Lakulisha (≈2nd century CE)....

surviving part records the construction of a brick temple to Shiva by a Pāśupata acharya named Nīlakaṇṭha.: 26  According to the Tarikh-i-Firishta, the...

emphasis on the yoga system. The principal text of the Pashupata sect, the Pāśupata Sūtra, is attributed to Lakulisha. The manuscripts of this text and a commentary...

(atheistic) Samkhya viewpoint only after it became associated with the Yoga, the Pasupata and the Bhagavata schools of philosophy. Others have traced the concept...

Samkhya Yoga Nyaya Vaisheshika Mimamsa Vedanta Advaita Dvaita Vishishtadvaita Achintya Bheda Abheda Other schools Pasupata Saiva Pratyabhijña Charvaka...

Samkhya Yoga Nyaya Vaisheshika Mimamsa Vedanta Advaita Dvaita Vishishtadvaita Achintya Bheda Abheda Other schools Pasupata Saiva Pratyabhijña Charvaka...

Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha (A Compendium of all the Philosophical Systems): Paśupata, a school of Shaivism founded by Nakulisa Shaiva Siddhantha, a theistic...

satire that pokes fun at the peculiar aspects of the heretic Kapalika and Pasupata Saivite sects, Buddhists and Jainism. The setting of the play is Kanchipuram...

Sūtras of Patanjali Brahma Sūtra (i.e. Vedanta sutra) Gauḍapāda Kārikā Pāśupata Sūtras Shiva Sūtras Spandakārikā Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva...

this by providing references to kalamukhas (staunch Shaiva ascetics), pasupatas and lokayatas (followers of Pasupatha doctrine) who flourished in Gangavadi...

Collins, Charles D. (1982). "Elephanta and the Ritual of the Lakulīśa-Pāśupatas". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 102 (4). American Oriental...

of sects considered primitive, such as the Kalamukhas, Kapalikas and Pasupatas, into mainstream Hinduism. The Kadambas were followers of Hinduism as...

grant him His personal weapon, Pasupata, Parvati was also with him dressed as a huntress. After giving Arjuna the Pasupata the divine couple wandered in...

Kiratarjuniya. The boon, which Arjuna is said to have received, was called Pasupata, Shiva's most powerful weapon. In this event, asuras (demons) sent a boar...

Samkhya Yoga Nyaya Vaisheshika Mimamsa Vedanta Advaita Dvaita Vishishtadvaita Achintya Bheda Abheda Other schools Pasupata Saiva Pratyabhijña Charvaka...

Vaishnavism Purna-Prajña Darsana or Tatva-vaada or Dvaita Vedanta Nakulisa-Paśupata Shaivism Pratyabhijña (Kashmir Shaivism) or Recognitive System Raseśvara...

Amṛtabindu Amṛtanāda Kṣurika Dhyānabindu Brahmavidyā Yogatattva Yogaśikhā Yogakuṇḍalinī Varāha Śāṇḍilya Pāśupata Mahāvākya Yogachūḍāmaṇi Darśana Nādabindu...