The eight names of Lord Shiva---meaning and significance
The eight names of Lord Shiva---meaning and significance (Revised, November,29 th , 2020) The eight names of Shiva (The Sanskrit words written in italics are the itrans version of Devanagari words. These words are available in the Sanskrit English Lexicon by Sir Monier Williams at <http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/>). shiva---- The word can be considered as from the root word shI which means 'to sleep or lie down'. shiva means that state of Universal Consciousness where the energy or praaNa or time is at rest. shiva--- The word can be considered as a retroversion of the root word 'vish'. vish means 'to enter', ' to go into'; i.e, Universal Consciousness entering into everything or becoming everything. So, ' shiva' means ' the Universal Consciousness in whom everything can enter' or 'in whom everything can merge in Oneness, and where everything is resting in Oneness'. The eight names m