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Kama ( Sanskrit: कामदेव, IAST: Kāmadeva ), also known as Kamadeva and Manmatha, is the Hindu god of erotic love, desire, pleasure and beauty, often portrayed alongside his consort and female counterpart, Rati. He is depicted as a handsome young man decked with ornaments and flowers, armed with a bow of sugarcane and shooting arrows ...
Rati (Sanskrit: रति, Rati) is the Hindu goddess of love, carnal desire, lust, passion, and sexual pleasure. Usually described as the daughter of Prajapati Daksha, Rati is the female counterpart, the chief consort and the assistant of Kama (Kamadeva), the god of love.
Parashurama, the Brahmin warrior. Rama, the king, hero of epic Ramayana and the slayer of Ravana. Krishna, a central character in the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, the slayer of Kamsa. Buddha, the deluder of the asuras. Kalki, the vanquisher of adharma, expected to appear at the end of the Kali Yuga.
The name Ganesha is a Sanskrit compound, joining the words gana (gaṇa), meaning a 'group, multitude, or categorical system' and isha (īśa), meaning 'lord or master'. The word gaṇa when associated with Ganesha is often taken to refer to the gaṇas, a troop of semi-divine beings that form part of the retinue of Shiva, Ganesha's father.
Hindu deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism. Deities in Hinduism are as diverse as its traditions, and a Hindu can choose to be polytheistic, pantheistic, monotheistic, monistic, even agnostic, atheistic, or humanist. [1] [2] [3] The terms and epithets for deities within the diverse traditions of Hinduism vary, and include Deva, Devi ...
In section 7.99 of the Rigveda, Vishnu is addressed as the god who separates heaven and earth, a characteristic he shares with Indra. In the Vedic texts, the deity or god referred to as Vishnu is Surya or Savitr (Sun god), who also bears the name Suryanarayana. Again, this link to Surya is a characteristic Vishnu shares with fellow Vedic ...
Mount. Buffalo. Consort. Vishnu as Varaha. Varahi ( Sanskrit: वाराही, IAST: Vārāhī) [note 1] is one of the Matrikas, a group of seven mother goddesses in the Hindu religion. Bearing the head of a sow, Varahi is the shakti (feminine energy) of Varaha, the boar avatar of the god Vishnu. In Nepal, she is called Barahi.
Bholenath. Painting of Shiva, the bearer of this epithet. Bholanatha ( Sanskrit: भोलानाथ, romanized : Bholānātha, lit. 'lord of innocence'), also popularly rendered Bholenath, is an epithet of the Hindu god Shiva. [1] [2] The epithet indicates the status of Shiva as the lord ( nātha) of innocence ( bholā ).