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	[[File:Elephanta Caves Trimurti.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|An ancient sculpture of Shiva at the [[Elephanta Caves]], Maharashtra. 6th century CE]]		[[File:Elephanta Caves Trimurti.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|An ancient sculpture of Shiva at the [[Elephanta Caves]], Maharashtra. 6th century CE]]
	According to [[Monier Monier-Williams]], the Sanskrit word "{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}" ({{lang-sa\|शिव\|label=[[Devanagari]]}}, also transliterated as ''shiva'') means "auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly".<ref name="mmwshiva">Monier Monier-Williams (1899), [http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html Sanskrit to English Dictionary with Etymology] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227192855/http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html \|date=27 February 2017 }}, Oxford University Press, pp. 1074–1076</ref> The root words of {{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}} in folk etymology are ''śī'' which means "in whom all things lie, pervasiveness" and ''va'' which means "embodiment of grace".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{sfn\|Prentiss\|2000\|p=199}}		According to [[Monier Monier-Williams]], the Sanskrit word "{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}" ({{lang-sa\|शिव\|label=[[Devanagari]]}}, also transliterated as ''shiva'') means "auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly".<ref name="mmwshiva">Monier Monier-Williams (1899), [http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html Sanskrit to English Dictionary with Etymology] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227192855/http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html \|date=27 February 2017 }}, Oxford University Press, pp. 1074–1076</ref> The root words of {{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}} in folk etymology are ''śī'' which means "in whom all things lie, pervasiveness" and ''va'' which means "embodiment of grace".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{sfn\|Prentiss\|2000\|p=199}}
			[[File:078 Isvara, 14c, Sukhothai (34443558853).jpg\|thumb\|14th-century Shiva, Thailand ]]
	The word Shiva is used as an adjective in the Rig Veda ({{Circa\|1700–1100 BCE}}), as an epithet for several [[Rigvedic deities]], including [[Rudra]].<ref>For use of the term ''{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}'' as an epithet for other Vedic deities, see: {{harvnb\|Chakravarti\|1986\|p=28}}.</ref> The term Shiva also connotes "liberation, final emancipation" and "the auspicious one"; this adjectival usage is addressed to many deities in Vedic literature.<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=21–22}} The term evolved from the Vedic ''Rudra-Shiva'' to the noun ''Shiva'' in the Epics and the Puranas, as an auspicious deity who is the "creator, reproducer and dissolver".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=1, 7, 21–23}}		The word Shiva is used as an adjective in the Rig Veda ({{Circa\|1700–1100 BCE}}), as an epithet for several [[Rigvedic deities]], including [[Rudra]].<ref>For use of the term ''{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}'' as an epithet for other Vedic deities, see: {{harvnb\|Chakravarti\|1986\|p=28}}.</ref> The term Shiva also connotes "liberation, final emancipation" and "the auspicious one"; this adjectival usage is addressed to many deities in Vedic literature.<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=21–22}} The term evolved from the Vedic ''Rudra-Shiva'' to the noun ''Shiva'' in the Epics and the Puranas, as an auspicious deity who is the "creator, reproducer and dissolver".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=1, 7, 21–23}}

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	[[File:Elephanta Caves Trimurti.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|An ancient sculpture of Shiva at the [[Elephanta Caves]], Maharashtra. 6th century CE]]		[[File:Elephanta Caves Trimurti.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|An ancient sculpture of Shiva at the [[Elephanta Caves]], Maharashtra. 6th century CE]]
	According to [[Monier Monier-Williams]], the Sanskrit word "{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}" ({{lang-sa\|शिव\|label=[[Devanagari]]}}, also transliterated as ''shiva'') means "auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly".<ref name="mmwshiva">Monier Monier-Williams (1899), [http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html Sanskrit to English Dictionary with Etymology] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227192855/http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html \|date=27 February 2017 }}, Oxford University Press, pp. 1074–1076</ref> The root words of {{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}} in folk etymology are ''śī'' which means "in whom all things lie, pervasiveness" and ''va'' which means "embodiment of grace".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{sfn\|Prentiss\|2000\|p=199}}		According to [[Monier Monier-Williams]], the Sanskrit word "{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}" ({{lang-sa\|शिव\|label=[[Devanagari]]}}, also transliterated as ''shiva'') means "auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly".<ref name="mmwshiva">Monier Monier-Williams (1899), [http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html Sanskrit to English Dictionary with Etymology] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227192855/http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/1100/mw__1107.html \|date=27 February 2017 }}, Oxford University Press, pp. 1074–1076</ref> The root words of {{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}} in folk etymology are ''śī'' which means "in whom all things lie, pervasiveness" and ''va'' which means "embodiment of grace".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{sfn\|Prentiss\|2000\|p=199}}
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	The word Shiva is used as an adjective in the Rig Veda ({{Circa\|1700–1100 BCE}}), as an epithet for several [[Rigvedic deities]], including [[Rudra]].<ref>For use of the term ''{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}'' as an epithet for other Vedic deities, see: {{harvnb\|Chakravarti\|1986\|p=28}}.</ref> The term Shiva also connotes "liberation, final emancipation" and "the auspicious one"; this adjectival usage is addressed to many deities in Vedic literature.<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=21–22}} The term evolved from the Vedic ''Rudra-Shiva'' to the noun ''Shiva'' in the Epics and the Puranas, as an auspicious deity who is the "creator, reproducer and dissolver".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=1, 7, 21–23}}		The word Shiva is used as an adjective in the Rig Veda ({{Circa\|1700–1100 BCE}}), as an epithet for several [[Rigvedic deities]], including [[Rudra]].<ref>For use of the term ''{{transliteration\|sa\|ISO\|śiva}}'' as an epithet for other Vedic deities, see: {{harvnb\|Chakravarti\|1986\|p=28}}.</ref> The term Shiva also connotes "liberation, final emancipation" and "the auspicious one"; this adjectival usage is addressed to many deities in Vedic literature.<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=21–22}} The term evolved from the Vedic ''Rudra-Shiva'' to the noun ''Shiva'' in the Epics and the Puranas, as an auspicious deity who is the "creator, reproducer and dissolver".<ref name="mmwshiva" />{{Sfn\|Chakravarti\|1986\|pp=1, 7, 21–23}}

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