The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2065 page)

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aivas or
Li
g
yats
, who may have developed out of the K
l
mukhas, and who worshipped
iva in the form of the li
ga;
(v)
Kashmir
aivism
or
Trika
, so called because of its threefold category of God (
iva), energy (
akti
), and individual (
a
u
);
(vi) Saiva Siddh
nta, a dualist system which became
bhakti
-oriented with the Tamil bhakti poets, the
N
yan
rs