Ardhanaarii



Ardhanaarii (अर्धनारी) holds a ring (earth / diamonds / pentacles, lower left hand), a sword (air / spades / swords, upper left hand), a cup (water / hearts / cups, lower right hand), and a baton (fire / clubs / wands, upper right hand). These may also represent the four Vedic var.nas: vai;syas, k.satriyas, braahma.nas, and (alternately ;suudras or) vai.s.navas, which in the latter array are exemplified respectively by K,r.s.na, Arjuna, Agastya, and Uddhava (he being the vai.s.nava of the four). Of four styles of recursive nexuses (k.siirodaka universes within their garbhodaka multiverses within their kaara.nodaka recursions, which Veda refers to as causal oceans), my thinking is that two are torsionally periformal: the ring style is cisnexal while the baton style is transnexal; and the other two are torsionally clinal: the sword style would be synclinally nexal while the cup style might be anticlinally nexal.

Ardhanaarii is the androgynous composition of ;Siva with Paarvatii and is certainly a proper Deity (in Vedic ontology being the dual and/or singular gender Holy Spirit) for the glorious sanctification (though technically in this instance the artistic begracing) of the ring nexus universe some of us are working with in story. Kapidhvaja campaign setting is a ring nexus universe, but in its connective aspect relative to the sword nexus adjacency. Specifically it refers to the name of Arjuna in that chariot of his that was driven for him by K,r.s.na on the Battlefield of Kuruk.setra in the Mahaabhaarata epic. A;nku;sa is the name of its cisnexal adjacency (kapidhvaja being thought of as either transnexal to a;nku;sa or more formally a type of synclinal adjacency) and is Kaar.s.na and Taalasa (of the nature of K,r.s.na's relationship with Tulasii).

In the story of a;nku;sa, Tulasii is identifiable with ;Siva's first partner goddess Satii (and also as the goddess Siitaa where Vi.s.nu is her lord Raama). Paarvatii in this context is that form of the goddess who has better identification with K,r.s.na's Raadhaa, or with N,rsi;mha's Lak.smii, than with the goddess Tulasii. So this form described in our present article is distinguishable from the creatrix deity Tulasii of a;nku;sa campaign setting, yet Ardhanaarii is cisnexally authoritative as a form of the first femininity within this group of creations, Tulasii being the second femininity. Where Ardhanaarii (or Raadhaaraanii as she is better known) is the goddess of original cosmic design, Tulasii or Satii plays the significant role in the creative process for that second type of ring nexus universe adjacent to its cisnexal masculinity, and is known in the Judeo-Christian world as Lilith.