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BIRTH  "Once while going to take her bath, Parvati instructed Nandi, to stand guard at the entrance and not to allow anybody to enter the premise without her permission. Lord Rudra arrived there by chance. Despite of Nandi's refusal to allow him, in he went inside. Parvati did not like this.  One day it happened so that , Parvati wanted to take her bath. She made an idol from the dirt of her body. She made the idol  and she contained the cosmic Ganesha into the idol She then, instructed him not to allow anybody without her permission. She also gave him a stick for his protection.  Incidentally lord Rudra arrived once again. He tried to enter inside but Ganesha refused to let him go inside. Lord Rudra became furious and ordered his ganas to throw him away. The ganas of Rudra attacked Ganesha but all of them were no match for him. After being defeated by Ganesha, the ganas went to Rudra and narrated everything.  While the ganas were narrating their...

Kapalika The Kāpālika tradition was a non-Puranic, tantric form of Shaivism in India, whose members wrote the Bhairava Tantras, including the subdivision called the Kaula Tantras. These groups are generally known as Kāpālikas, the "skull-men," so called because, like the Lākula Pāsupata, they carried a skull-topped staff (khatvanga) and begging bowl. They are one among the most feared among the holy men in India. They are great followers of Lord Rudra in his Kapalishwara form. In this form he wears ash from burned dead bodies  all over his body and also wears a garland made of skulls and mediate in the cremation grounds.  Kalamukha   Scholars have commonly been associated the Kalamukhas with the Kāpālikas, or skull-bearers, another group of ascetics who undertook ascetic practices common to both Buddhist and Hindu Tantra. Like the Kapalikas, the Kalamukhas are often described as employing disturbing imagery of death and even cannibalism in...