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Ayya Vaikundar, also known as Siva Narayana or Vaikunda Swami, was the founder of the Ayyavazhi faith. The Ayyavazhis believe him to be the first and foremost Purna avatar of Eka-Paran and the god Vishnu ...
Date of birth: 1810
Date of death: 1851
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Sharabha
part-lion and part-bird beast in Hindu mythology
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Sharabha (Sanskrit: शरभ, Śarabha) or Sarabha is an eight-legged part-lion and part-bird deity in Hindu religion, who is described as more powerful than a lion or an elephant, possessing the ability to ...
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Balarama
elder brother of Krishna, a deity in Vaishnavism and Jainism
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Balarama (Sanskrit: बलराम, IAST: Balarāma) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna. He is particularly significant in the Jagannath tradition, as one of the triad deities. He is also known as ...
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Yama
god of death in Hinduism, Buddhism, and various Indo-European mythologies
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Yama (Devanagari: यम) is the Hindu deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld. Belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities, Yama is said to have been the first mortal who ...
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Indra
Vedic god of rain, weather, storms, and thunder in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Eastern religions
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Indra (Sanskrit: इन्द्र) is the Hindu God of weather, considered the king of the Devas and Svarga in Hinduism. He is associated with the sky, lightning, weather, thunder, storms, rains, river flows, and ...
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Ganesha
Hindu god of new beginnings, success, and wisdom
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Ganesha (/gəɳeɕᵊ/, Sanskrit: गणेश, IAST: Gaṇeśa), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Pillaiyar, and Lambodara, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu ...
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Shiva
One of the principal deities of Hinduism
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Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, 'The Auspicious One', IAST: Śiva), also known as Mahadeva (Sanskrit: महादेव:, 'The Great God', IAST: Mahādevaḥ, [mɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh) or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism ...
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Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण, IAST: Kṛṣṇa) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme God in his own right. He is the god of protection, compassion ...
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Jayanta (Sanskrit: जयन्त, '"victory"')), is a character who appears in Hindu literature. He is the son of Indra, the king of the devas (gods), and his wife, Shachi (Indrani). He has a sister called Jayanti ...
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In a local tradition of the Mascarene Islands, Kérdik (French and creole: [kɛʀ'dik], from classical Sanskrit: हार्दिकः ['ha:rdikə], PIE ['ker] "the heart", with influence of creole's noun for "heart": ...
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Mahakala
deity in Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism
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Mahākāla (Sanskrit: महाकाल) is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Naranarayana (Sanskrit: नरनारायण, Naranārāyaṇa), also rendered Nara-Narayana, is a Hindu duo of sage-brothers. Generally regarded to be the partial-incarnation (aṃśa-avatara) of the preserver deity, Vishnu ...
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Rahu
Hindu deity representing ascending lunar node
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Rāhu (Sanskrit: राहु, ) is one of the nine major celestial bodies (navagraha) in Hindu texts and the king of meteors. It represents the ascension of the Moon in its precessional orbit around the Earth ...
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Kubera
The lord of wealth and the god-king of the semi-divine Yakshas in Hindu mythology
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Kubera (Sanskrit: कुबेर, IAST: Kubera) also known as Kuvera, Kuber and Kuberan, is the god of wealth, and the god-king of the semi-divine yakshas in Hinduism. He is regarded as the regent of the north ...
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Virabhadra (Sanskrit: वीरभद्र, Vīrabhadra, 'auspicious hero'), also rendered Veerabhadra, Veerabathira, and Veerabathiran, is a fierce form of the Hindu god Shiva. He is created by the wrath of Shiva ...
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Rudra (/ɾud̪ɾə/; Sanskrit: रुद्र) is a Rigvedic deity associated with Shiva, the wind or storms, Vayu, medicine, and the hunt. One translation of the name is 'the roarer'. In the Rigveda, Rudra is praised ...
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Aniruddha (Sanskrit: अनिरुद्ध, 'unconquerable') is a character in Hindu mythology, the son of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, and the grandson of Krishna and Rukmini. He is said to have been very much like his ...
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Varuna
deity associated with waters in Hinduism, Buddhism
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Varuna (Sanskrit: वरुण, IAST: Varuṇa) is a Hindu god, associated with the sky, oceans, and water. In the Vedic scriptures, he is paired with the god Mitra and is the lord of Ṛta (justice) and Satya (truth) ...
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Shesha
Hindu king of all serpent deities
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Shesha (Sanskrit: शेष, Śeṣa, 'Remainder'), also known by his epithets Sheshanaga (Sanskrit: शेषनाग, Śeṣanāga, 'The snake Shesha') and Adishesha (Sanskrit: आदिशेष, Ādiśeṣa, 'First Shesha'), is a serpentine ...
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Shani
Planet Saturn, also a Hindu deity
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Shani (Sanskrit: शनि, IAST: Śani), or Shanaishchara (Sanskrit: शनैश्चर, IAST: Śanaiścara), is the divine personification of the planet Saturn in Hinduism, and is one of the nine heavenly objects (Navagraha) ...
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