What is "saiva"

Saiva \Sai"va\ (? or ?), n. [Skr. [,c]aiva devoted to Siva.] One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration.

Saiva is a genus of Asian lanternbugs, family Fulgoridae. They are colourful insects, marked boldly in red, blue, white and black, with a prominent slender stalk like structure arising on the head that points upwards or forward.

Saiva or Shaiva may refer to:

• Saiva is a genus of Asian lanternbugs, family Fulgoridae.
• Saiva kurukkals redirects to Vellalar, which were the nobility, aristocracy of the ancient Tamil order.
• Saiva Vellalar is a Tamil community in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
• Shaiva Siddhanta or Saiva-Siddhanta, provides the normative rites, cosmology and theological categories of tantric Saivism.
• Shaivism or Saivism is one of the four most widely followed sects of Hinduism.
• [[Tevaram#Saiva Neri .5BThe saiva way.5D|Saiva Neri [The saiva way] ]], part of the Tirumurai, a twelve-volume collection of Tamil Śaiva devotional poetry.
• Thondaimandala Saiva Velalar redirects to Thondaimandala Mudaliar, a Forward caste in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
• Tirunelveli Saiva Pillai is a sub caste or branch of 'Saiva Pillai'.
• Urumpirai Saiva Tamil Vidyalayam is a provincial school in Urumpirai, Sri Lanka.
• The Saiva Agamas are a subset of the Agamas.
• The Saiva revivalism promoted by Arumugam Pillai.
• The Saiva Siddhanta Church is a spiritual institution and identifies itself with the Śaivite Hindu religion.
• The South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society Ltd. (also known as Kazhagam) is a Tamil book publishing company.