THE SCIENCE OF ARDHANARISHWAR - WELL-EXPLAINED GENETICS Ardhanarishwara is a Hindu God, Shiva, depicted as half male and half female, split down the middle. The name Ardhanarishwara means " The Lord Who is Half Woman ." Why is this bizarre form of God Shiva? What made them create such a bizarre form of God? What was the reason behind? What do we come to know from it? The iconographic 16th century work Shilparatna , the Matsya Purana and Agamic texts like Amshumadbhedagama, Kamikagama, Supredagama, Karanagama a nd etc. describe the iconography of Ardhanarishwara . The right superior side of the body usually is the male Shiva and the left is the female Parvati. The composition of the text of Matsya Purana may have begun in the last centuries of the 1st-millennium BCE , that is more than 2000 years old text . MYTHOLOGY : According to Hindu mythology , the s tory goes like, Kartikeya , the son of Shiva and Parvati , the Hindu God and God