#PurvaBhadrapada #Nakshatra is the 25th Nakshatra as per Hindu #astrology.

Purva Bhadra is ruled by #AjaEkapad, the one-footed serpent or goat. Ajaikapada Bhairava Temple is dedicated to Ekapada Bhairava — an aspect of #Shiva

Aja Ekapada is also worshiped as a form of Lord Shiva and a transport vehicle of Agni, the god of fire. It gives the fire to raise a spiritual person up in life (yajamana vdyamana shakti). Aja Ekapada represents the unborn, transcendent cosmic energy.

The goat is a simple, harmless milk-producing animal which requires almost nothing for its sustenance. However, in the Vedas this deity has been extolled to great heights. He is considered as infinity, an entity without emotion or speech. As Aja, the unborn, he is worshipped as a form of Śiva and is a vehicle of #Agni (fire).

The Agama text Amsumadbhedagama mentions that Ekapada-Trimurti is like the Ekanetra and Ekarudra aspects of Shiva and is one of the Vidyeshvara aspects. He wears a jata-mukuta (a headdress formed of piled, matted hair) and white silken garments. He has three eyes and a pacific appearance. He holds a trishula (trident) and a tanka (small hammer) in two of his four arms and gestures in varada mudra (the boon-giving gesture) and abhaya mudra (the gesture of reassurance.

Another Agama text, the Uttara-Karanagama, also describes Ekapada-Trimurti as one of the Vidyeshvaras. He stands erect (the samabhanga posture) on his one leg on a lotus pedestal (padma pitha). He has three eyes and four arms and is clear as crystal in color. His back hands carry a trisula or mriga (deer) and a tanka and his four hands gesture in varada mudra and abhaya mudra. He wears ordinary kundala earrings or pearl ones and the jata-mukuta. From the right and left of his body emerge Brahma and Vishnu respectively.

The Linga Purana describes #Shiva as “the lord who has one foot, four arms, three eyes and a trident and who is stationed after creating #Vishnu from his left side and four-headed #Brahma from his right side.

#Ekapada icons are found in most of the important Shiva temples in South India.

In Orissa, Ekapada-Bhairava is essentially a Tantric deity. Tantric texts explicitly associate him with the Vedic Aja Ekapada, fire/Agni, sacrifice, the cosmic pillar of the universe, and the Yogini goddesses, who are also linked to the Saptamatrikas.

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