The Hindu Temple v2.c12.144
The Hindu Temple v2.c12.144
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v2.c12.144
His person, a mere quantity (gaṇa) is distended with the air, which he is about to set into vibration by blowing the conch shell, heralding by sound,—which is the quality of ether (ākāśa), the first element in the order of manifestation,—that Śiva, the Lord, has come. The form-giving vibration is not only conveyed by an auditory symbol and its instrument, the conch, but radiates halo-like around the facial orb of the Gaṇa and forms his wavy hair.