Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Kalki(n) (with white horse)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | horse god. Possibly the tenth avatara of VIS'NU. He rewards the good and punishes evil. The counterpart of the Buddhist deity MAITREYA. horses became åśśociated with Divine kingship in ancient India because of their speed of movement. Solar deities were perceived to ride horses across the sky and horse sacrifice became highly significant. Kalki is depicted either anthropomorphically or with the head of a horse and has four arms. He is attended by a white horse. Attributes: arrow, conch, prayer wheel, shield and sword. Also Vis'nuyasas.... |
God name "Kalki[n]" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic / Epic | This god will be the 10th avatar of Visnu that rewards good & punishes people |
God name "Kama/ Kama[Deva]" | Hindu / Puranic / Indian | A god of love & carnal desire |
Goddess name "Kamala" | Hindu | Goddess Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
Goddess name "Kamala (lotus born)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. Particularly worshiped in southern India. One of a group of MAHAVIDYAS or personifications of the SAKTI of SI IVA, representing MAHARATRI.... |
God name "Kamalasana" | Hindu / Puranic | God. An epithet of BRAHMA. One of the clåśśic depictions in Hindu art wherein Brahma is drawn seated on a lotus, which blossoms from the navel of VISINU.... |
God name "Kamantakamurti" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. A violent aspect of SI IVA in which he is depicted immolating Kama, the god of sexual love, using a blast of fire from his third eye. The reason given for this åśśault is that Kama had interrupted the ascetic meditation of SI iva by making him desirous of PARVATI.... |
Goddess name "Kankar Mata" | Hindu | Mother goddess who became a mother of evil intent Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
Goddess name "Kankar Mata" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. A SAKTI who in later Hinduism became regarded as a SAPTAMATARA (mother) of evil intent. Known particularly from Bengal as a goddess who spreads disease.... |
God name "Kantatman" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | God of Medicine and good health. Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
God name "Kantatman" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Obscure god of Medicine. The twentieth of the thirty-nine minor avataras of the god VIS'NU and possibly the same as DHANVANTARI, as he is said to be a carrier of nectar. By different genealogy he has been equated with PRADYUMNA, the god of love.... |
Goddess name "Kanti" | Hindu | Goddess whose name means desire Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
Goddess name "Kanti (desire)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The SAKTI of NARAYANA.... |
God name "Kapali" | Hindu | God, one of the forms of the Rudra Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
God name "Kapali (wearing skulls)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | God. One of the group of eleven EKADASARUDRAS or forms of RUDRA.... |
God name "Karttikeya" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) God. A form of SKANDA who was reared by the Pleiades stars and is generally represented therefore with six heads. (In Hindu mythology there are only six Pleiades, not the seven recognized in modern astronomy.) His SAKTI is KARTTIKI and his attendant animal is a peaçõçk. Attributes: conch, hook, noose, prayer wheel, shield, spear, staff, sword and wood apple.(2) God. Buddhist. Equating with the Hindu god Skanda. Color: red. Rides upon a peaçõçk. Attributes: çõçk, Sakti and staff.... |
God name "Karttikeya/ Skanda/ Scanda" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A god of war & a form of Skanda |
Goddess name "Karttiki" | Hindu | Mother goddess Hindu / Puranic / Epic |