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Bom Shiva! Bom Shiva!

Bom Shiva! Bom Shiva!

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Dec 09, 2024
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This a corrected version due to a technical mistake.

"Bom" is a word used to imitate the sound made by Shiva's "damura", a small two-sided hand drum which you can see in one of his right hands in the statue pictured above. This word alone is used to evoke Shiva's divine dance of transformations and the beat of time i.e., impermanence, which Shiva command…

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