Bhairava
It is believed in the Hindu pantheon that Bhairava is the terrifying form of Shiva. the classical texts enumerate sixty four different Bhairavas grouped in eights with a leader. Each is the companion of a terrifying female counterpart a yogini. According to tantrasara and puranas the eight names of Bhairava are Ashitanga, ruru, Chanda, Kordha, Unmantta, Kapali, Bhisana and Samhar Bhairava. The Vishnu Dharmottara text provides certain iconographic rules of the Bhairava. He is decorated with skulls and srpents. he is yellow colored with dreadful face, has glaring eyes, long tusk (tooth) and wears an elephant skin as a cloth piece to cover the upper part of body.
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Bhairava is paramount malevolent deity. There are so many popular images of the Bhairava in the Kathmandu valley capital of Nepal. Unmantta, Vatuka, Begh, Tika, Kala, Pachali Bhairava etc. the images also characteristically manifest themselves in a forocious mask with glaring eyes, bared fangs and disheveled hair, Bhairava is docorated with skulls, serpents and other forbidding and macabre ornaments. There are couples of Bhairava images in the Nepal city in Bhaktapur museum which have same poses and features are illustrated as in the classical text.
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