The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c49.17

c49.17

ŚAKA. A Hindu era beginning in A.D. 78. ŚAKTI. The female counterpart of a god. ŚALUNKA. The stone in which the *linga* is set upright, intended to represent the female counterpart of the *linga*. SALYA. One of the heroes in the Mahābhārata war. ŚAMBHU. Śiva. SANGNA. One of Sūrya’s two wives. ŚANKHA. A shell, an emblem of Vishnu. ŚANTĒSVARA. An epithet of Śiva. SAPTAMĀTRĪ. The ‘Seven Mothers’. SARASVATĪ. The wife of Brahmā and goddess of learning and speech. ŚASHTIMATRIYA. A name of Kārtikēya. SATĪ. The act of self-immolation on a husband’s pyre. ŚESHA. One of the chiefs of the serpent race, or Nāgas, of the under-world. ŚESHAPHANA. The hood of a snake. SHANMATURA. A name of Kārtikēya. SIDDHĒŚVARA. An epithet of Śiva. SIDDHARAMĒŚVARA. An epithet of Śiva. ŚIKHARA. The tower of a temple. SIMHĀSANA. A ‘lion throne’ upon which an image is often seated in a temple. SĪTĀ. The wife of Rāma, whose abduction led to the war of the Rāmāyaṇa. ŚIVA. The third deity of the Triad, the others being Brahmā and Vishnu. SŌMĒŚVARA. An epithet of Śiva. STAMBHA. A pillar. STŪPA. A burial or memorial mound. SUGRĪVA. One of the chiefs of the monkey host that assisted Rāma to recover Sītā. SŪRPAṆAKHĀ. The demon hag who played a part in the abduction of Sītā. SŪTRADHĀRĪ. An architect, a mason, a carpenter. SŪRYA. The sun god. SVASTIKA. A religious symbol—a cross with the ends of the equal arms turned at right angles. The fylfot.