Encountering Sivaism : The deity, the milieu, the entourage Shringi The marks on the Shaligram

The marks on the Shaligram give it a special significance

Author - Professor Vachaspati Maudgalya

and an observer of the cultural environment

Legends about the 64 Yoginis

Encountering Sivaism : The deity, the milieu, the entourage Shringi The marks on the ShaligramThis book endeavours to signify a way by which the development of religion may be studied within the parameters of a defined geographical and chronological context. Encountering Sivaism has taken cognizance of the evolution Siva's pantheon through the fluid process of cultural coalescence. The agencies of Acculturation include the visual and the literary material. Art is looked at as an index to socio religious change at macro and micro levels without