16. Saffron and Ashes: Just like Shiva himself, his devotees,m the Shaivites are amongst India’s most ascetic people who perform meditation and yoga with ashes smeared on their forehead, a rudraksha mala around their neck and wearing a saffron-colored garment. This is the way that they can see the path of shiva and achieve their own inner self and self-realization.

17. Various Names of Lord Shiva: Many people like to inscribe Shiva’s multiple names on their body part as their preferred choice for tattoo design, here are the most popular ones:

• Gangadhar: When Ganga came furiously towards Earth, Lord Shiva pacified her by taking her in His hair mat to stop her from drowning the earth. Because of keeping the holy river Ganges in his hair, He is known as Gangadhar.
• Jatadhari: Jata means hair and it is because of the matted locks that he is fondly called as Jatadhari, by his ascetic devotees.
• Siddheshwar: Siddheshwar is someone who is referred to as the perfect one. Lord Shiva, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the world is Siddheshwar.
• Trisuladhari: With the company of the trident in his hands, he became famous as brave and courageous Trisuladhari.
• Dakhshinamurthi: As the teacher of the world who evades ignorance, He was lauded as Dakhshinamurthi by Adi Shankara in his popular book, “Hymns to Dakhshinamurthi”. It is also visible because of the fact that a great number of cults and groups came to be associated with Shiva which suggests that he had unlimited wisdom. He is considered as the teacher of the world and a father of all, who inspires his devotees to choose the path of self-realization.
• Other Names: Shiva is ‘shakti’ or power, which gives him the power of a destroyer. He is regarded as the most powerful god of the Hindu religion and one of the supreme gods in the Hindu Trinity. Shiva is known by many names like Mahadeva, Mahayogi, Pashupati, Nataraja, Bhairava, Vishwanath, Bhava, Bhole Nath. With so many names and forms, Lord Shiva is conceivably the most complex of all the Hindu deities clubbed together.

18. The Third Eye: Lord Shiva is also known as the three-eyed Lord or Tryambaka Deva. His eyes have a lot of significance for his right eye is the sun, the left eye is the mound and on his forehead is the eyes of wisdom. It is the eye that kooks beyond ignorance and what is ordinary. It is the eyes that can search the evil from any part of the universe and destroy it with its power.