Editing Ardhanarishvara (section)

==Names==
The name Ardhanarishvara means "the Lord Who is half woman". Ardhanarishvara is also known by other names like Ardhanaranari ("the half man-woman"), Ardhanarisha ("the Lord who is half woman"), Ardhanarinateshvara ("the [[Nataraja|Lord of Dance]] (Who is half-woman),<ref>[http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgibin/monier/serveimg.pl?file=/scans/MWScan/MWScanjpg/mw0092-ardhakarNa.jpg Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2008 revision)]</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=India through the ages|url=https://archive.org/details/indiathroughages00mada|last=Gopal|first=Madan|year= 1990| page= [https://archive.org/details/indiathroughages00mada/page/69 69]|editor=K.S. Gautam|publisher=Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India}}</ref> Parangada,<ref name = "garg"/> Naranari ("man-woman"), Ammaiyappan (a [[Tamil language|Tamil]] Name meaning "Mother-Father"),<ref name="jordan">{{cite book|last=Jordan|first=Michael|title=Dictionary of gods and goddesses  |edition=2|year=2004|publisher=Facts on File, Inc.|isbn=0-8160-5923-3|page=27}}</ref> and Ardhayuvatishvara (in [[Assam]], "the Lord whose half is a young woman or girl").<ref name ="swami57"/> The  [[Gupta Empire|Gupta]]-era writer Pushpadanta in his ''Mahimnastava'' refers to this form as ''dehardhaghatana'' ("Thou and She art each the half of one body"). [[Utpala (astronomer)|Utpala]], commenting on the [[Bṛhat Saṃhitā|''Brihat Samhita'']], calls this form Ardha-Gaurishvara ("the Lord whose half is the fair one"; the fair one – Gauri – is an attribute of [[Parvati]]).<ref>Swami Parmeshwaranand p. 60</ref> The [[Vishnudharmottara Purana|''Vishnudharmottara Purana'']] simply calls this form Gaurishvara ("The Lord/husband of Gauri).<ref name = "collins80"/>