Elements of Hindu Iconography v4.c25.s2.1
Elements of Hindu Iconography v4.c25.s2.1
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v4.c25.s2.1
The five aspects of Śiva known collectively as the Pañchabrahmās and whose individual names are Īśāna, Tatpurusha, Aghōra, Vāmadēva and Sadyōjāta are, as we have already said, emanations from the nishkala-Śiva (the formless, unmanifested Parabrahma of the Vēdāntins and Vāsudeva of the same state of existence according to the Vaishṇavāgamas).