Contents 1 Religion 2 Science 3 Computing 4 Music 5 People 6 Fiction 7 Miscellaneous 8 See also

Shiva may refer to:

[edit] Religion

• Shiva or Śiva or Shiv, Hindu God
• Shaivism, types of Hinduism devoted to Shiva
• Shivā (ending with long 'a'), another name of Parvati, Shiv's consort
• Shiva (Judaism), Jewish ritual of mourning

[edit] Science

• Shiva (strain), strain of Cannabis sativa subsp. indica
• Shiva laser, built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1970s
• Shiva Star or Shiva, high-powered plasma weapon research project
• Shiva crater, an apparent impact crater in the Indian Ocean, possibly associated with the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event; unrelated to the
• Shiva Hypothesis, scientific theory concerning impact events

[edit] Computing

• SheevaPlug - a small form factor computer
• ShiVa (game engine), ShiVa Game Engine

[edit] Music

• Shiva (singer), house music singer

[edit] People

• Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire
• Vandana Shiva, physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist, and writer

[edit] Fiction

• Shiva, a fictitious strain of Ebola virus from the novel Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
• Shiva, a summonable ice elemental in the Final Fantasy series
• Shiva (film), 1989 Telugu film by Ram Gopal Varma
• Shiva (2006 film), 2006 Hindi film by the same director.
• Shiva (2008 film), 2008 film by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
• Shiva (Marvel Comics), Marvel Comics program designed to destroy Weapon X experiments like Wolverine
• Lady Shiva, DC Comics character
• Kaiyanwang, fictional character from 3×3 Eyes, was also called Shiva
• Sheeva, Mortal Kombat character
• Shiva, the ultimate villain in the anime Shurato
• Shiva, a major boss in the D&D 3.5 server Bonds of Blood of Neverwinter Nights.
• Shiva's Guard, a powerful artifact in the Warcraft III game Defense of the Ancients.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Shiva Corporation, a manufacturer of computer network products
• Shiva Smart Tunneling (SST), simplistic UDP-based VPN tunneling protocol
• Neosapien General Shiva from the cartoon TV series "Exosquad"

[edit] See also

• Siva
• Siwa
• Sieve
• Shiv
• Shiver
• Yeshiva

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