A giant statue of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sanatansociety.org/hindu_gods_and_goddesses/shiva.htm">Lord Shiva</a> - "the destroyer" - one of the three principle incarnations of the Supreme Being. We arrived in Haridwar on Shivaratri (8 March 2005), a religious holiday devoted to Shiva.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/95392045@N00">Liz Highleyman</a> from San Francisco, USA
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