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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 119-122 |
Siva - The mad lord: A Puranic perspective
Ottilingam Somasundaram1, Tejus Murthy2
1 Department of Psychiatry, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Psychiatry, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India
Correspondence Address:
Ottilingam Somasundaram
Thanigai Illam, No. 30, 23rd Cross Street, Besant Nagar, Chennai - 600 090, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.204441
The eccentricities of Lord Shiva, especially His attire, behavior - particularly the midnight dance at the cremation grounds surrounded by various strange beings, fondness to remain naked, and love for strange pets such as snakes and fawn, have attracted the loving and devout attention from His various adiyargal (devotees). This has resulted in the outpouring of their love for their Lord in the form of Thevaram and Thiruvachakam of Sambandar, Appar, Sundarar, Karaikal Ammaiyar, and Manickavachakar. Along with these writings, the background Puranic myths are mentioned. It is suggested that these ideas could be utilized to destigmatize mental illness among the sufferers and their carers.
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