Meeting the various forms of Lord Shiva in Pushkar

Pushkar is a small Hindu temple town in Rajasthan that is full of temples, either every alternate building is a temple or every house has a temple. In addition to the famous (and one of the few in the world) Lord Brahma temple, there are numerous temples dedicated to Lord Shiva here. According to Hindu mythology when Lord Shiva’s wife – Lady Sati died, Shiva cried so much that his tears created 2 ponds and one them is in Pushkar.

Hence it was not surprising that while walking around this town we came across Lord Shiva in various forms. While it was prohibited to take pictures inside the temples, we captured Shiva on camera in various other places. I am sharing a few of these here in my 100th post today.

We found this small kid wandering on the road dressed exactly like Lord Shiva. However unlike the Lord he demanded a small fee to be photographed. 🙂

A kid dressed as Lord Shiva

There was a small cart selling gulal (colorful powder) and this picture looked like numerous small colorful Shivlings.

Small colorful Shivas

Lord Shiva was pretty much everywhere and some on books too –

Lord Shiva on the notebook

Notice Lord Shiva’s statue on the seat of the bike. This was parked outside our guest house everyday. 🙂

Lord Shiva on a bike

We saw this statue near Bada Pushkar which was the original Pushkar and the Lake.

All Gods in one statue