| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Daksa" | Hindu | God of the Sun and master of the works of unerring right discernment. Hindu |
| God name "Daksa (skilled and able)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Sun god. The son of BRAHMA and ADITI, he is an ADITYA and demiurge. His consort is PRASUTI, and he is said to have had up to sixty daughters. He appears in conflict with his son-in-law SIVA as the main offender against Siva's consort SATI (accounted as one of his daughters), who was so insulted by Daksa that she committed suicide by jumping into a ritual fire. Siva took revenge by decapitating Daksa but later, after intercession from other gods, Brahma brought him back to life, giving him the substitute head of a sacrificial goat. Attribute: head of a goat. Also PRAJAPATI.... |
| Goddess name "Danu" | Hindu | Primordial goddess Hindu / Vedic |
| Goddess name "Daya" | Hindu / Puranic | A goddess who oddly enough is considered a minor aspect of the god of Visnu |
| Goddess name "Daya (compåśśion)" | Hindu / Puranic / A SAKTI of Acyuta / never falling / , a minor aspect of the god VIS NU | Goddess. Decima... |
| God name "Deva" | Hindu / Puranic / Vedic | Generic name of a god. Hindu / Puranic / Vedic |
| Deities name "Deva (the god)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Generic name of a god. Originally, in the Rg Veda, thirty or thirty-three devas are indicated, divided into three groups of eleven. In later Hinduism, the term deva is generally applied to deities not included in the chief triad of BRAHMA, VISNU and SIVA.... |
| Goddess name "Devaki" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | Mother goddess. Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Goddess name "Devaki (divine)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. Daughter of Devaka and consort of the mythical king VASUDEVA, Devaki bore eight sons, including KRSNA and BALARAMA. Her brother Kamsa believed that the eighth child would kill him and he slaughtered the first six sons. In order to save the remaining two, VISNU implanted the seed of his avataras in Devaki's womb (in the form of hairs from his head), before transferring Balarama to the womb of the goddess ROHINI and Krsna to Yasoda, the wife of a cowherd, Nanda.... |
| Planet name "Devapurohita" | Hindu / Puranic | Astral god. An epithet for the planet god JUPITER.... |
| Spirit name "Devas aka daeva" | Hindu | A type of celestial being that appears in both Persian mythology and Hinduism. Named after a Sanskrit word meaning "god," the deva emerged in Hindu teachings as a spiritual being, serving the supreme beings. |
| Goddess name "Devasena" | Hindu / Puranic | Goddess. Hindu / Puranic |
| Goddess name "Devasena (heavenly host)" | Hindu / Puranic | Goddess. One of the consorts of SKANDA who normally stands to his left. Attribute: lotus in the left hand.... |
| God name "Devata" | Hindu | The gods in general or, as most frequently used, the whole body of inferior gods. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Devi" | Hindu | A twelve armed warrior goddess |
| Goddess name "Devi" | Hindu | Twelve armed warrior goddess. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Devi (the goddess)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess epitomizing the active female principle. Devi evolved as a major goddess out of the older notion of mother and vegetation goddesses. She is seen more as an abstract principle who will nevertheless respond directly to worshipers' prayers. By the fifth century AD she appears in many forms as the active (feminine) aspect or power of male deities. General attributes: conch, hook, noose, prayer wheel and trident. Devi is also the generic name given to a female deity, in her capacity as the consort of a god or DEVA.See also SRI(DEVI), BHUMIDEVI.... |
| Goddess name "Dhanistha" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess of misfortune to and malevolent astral deity. Hindu / Puranic |
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