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    ardhanārīśvara

    See also arddhanārīśvara, arddhanārīśvaraḥ.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 92, col. 1.
    ardha—nārīśa or ardha—nārīśvara, m. ‘the lord who is half female (and half male)’, a form of Śiva.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 5, p. 1049.
    ardhanārīśvara (ardha + nārī - ī°) m. Śiva als Hermaphrodit Verz. d. Oxf. H. 42,b,47.

    The Purāṇa Index

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 111.
    Ardhanārīśvara — Śiva became this by worshipping

    Śakti:1 Image of; with details of dress and ornaments.2 [Footnote] 1) Br. II. 27. 98; IV. 5. 30; 44. 48. [Footnote] 2) M. 60. 25; 192. 28;

    260. 1-10.

    Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 31, col. 2.
    ardhanārīśvara lexicographer. Quoted by Cāritravardhana
    on Raghuvaṃśa.

    Indian Epigraphical Glossary

    ☞ p. 27.
    Ardhanārīśvara (CII 4), a form of Śiva, in which

    the bodies of Śiva and Pārvatī are combined into one.