Attribution
Image Credits & Licenses
All photographs and artworks on this site are in the public domain or released under Creative Commons licenses, sourced from Wikimedia Commons. We are grateful to the photographers and to the artists whose darshan this site shares.
| Image | Author | License | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adiyogi Shiva bust at Coimbatore (homepage hero) | Prabhuthiru57 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Nataraja bronze, Government Museum Chennai (Who Is Mahadev hero) | Ravichandran KP | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Nataraja, Chola bronze, 11th century (Mantras hero) | Richard Mortel | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Kedarnath Temple in the monsoon (Jyotirlingas hero) | Shivam Kumar 766 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Candles and diyas on Mahashivratri (Festivals hero) | SayandeepDutta | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| The Cosmic Dance of Shiva — traditional painting (Gallery hero) | Aadrit28 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Murudeshwar Shiva statue (gallery) | Prasannabanwat | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Murudeshwar statue at sunset with Nandi | thejasp | CC BY 2.0 | Flickr |
| Aerial view of Murudeshwar over the Arabian Sea | Arch_Sam | CC BY 2.0 | Flickr |
| Blue Shiva statue of Pumdikot, Pokhara | shreyadhakal | CC0 (public domain dedication) | WordPress Photos |
| Shiva statue at Nageshwar Jyotirlinga, Dwarka | Bigul Malayi | CC0 (public domain dedication) | WordPress Photos |
| Mangal Mahadev close-up, Ganga Talao, Mauritius | Ashok666 | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Flickr |
| Shivalinga shrine at night | Alina Kakshapati | CC0 (public domain dedication) | WordPress Photos |
| Gangadhareshwara sculpture, Azhimala (two views) | Akhilan | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons · view 2 |
| Shiva statue at sunrise, Har Ki Pauri, Haridwar | Wolfgang Maehr | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Meditating Shiva on the Ganga, Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh | Sumita Roy Dutta | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Mangal Mahadev golden statue at night | Shivendujha | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Adiyogi Mahashivratri light show | Ishanjyotibora | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Mount Kailash, Tibet | Amitbalani | CC0 (public domain dedication) | Wikimedia Commons |
| Kedarnath Temple | Shaq774 | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| Shiva as the Lord of Dance (Chola bronze, LACMA) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| Descent of the Ganga (painting) | Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906) | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| Shiva, Parvati and Nandi (oleograph) | Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906) | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
Images under CC BY-SA 4.0 may be reused with attribution under the same license (license text). The site's own text content is offered freely for devotional, non-commercial use.