Śarva
deity figure · 2 works · 11 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Sarva · blue topknot god · blue-crested one · the one who strides into the assembly
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Fierce epithet/aspect of Rudra invoked as a war-god.
By the weapon of the great copper-hued one, by the weapon of Śarva the warrior;
You two who, both fierce, undertake manifold tasks at once, and who have let loose your sovereignty overwhelming among peoples — be gracious to me, O Bhava and Śarva;
He who is a maker of sorcery, a demon (yātudhāna), a great deceiver — upon such a one hurl down the thunderbolt, O fierce ones — be gracious to me, O Bhava and Śarva;
Rigveda
Epithet naming the destroyer-deity (identified with Indra/Rudra in this verse) who crushes the Dasyus.
Having slain the Dasyus and the Śimyus by his paths, O much-invoked one, Śarva has crushed them into the earth.
What, O Agni, to great Śarva?
Where now you see him, O Jātavedas, standing or moving, or flying through the atmosphere on its pathways — with your whetted arrow shoot him, O Śarva.