In Hinduism, Kama is the god of love and desire. Some of his iconographical attributes are a bow made from a sugarcane stem, arrows made of five flowers, and a standard with the image of a makara (mythical creature).
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A form of the Hindu goddess Parvati or Parameswari, who is the consort of the deity Shiva.
Revered as the God of War within Hindu mythology, he is the son of Shiva and Parvati. Also known as…
A Sanskrit poem on the life of Rishabnath, the first Tirthankara of Jainism and his sons Bharata and Bahubali. It…
Rishabha Deva is the first of the twenty four Jaina Tirthankaras (great spiritual teachers). In Jaina mythology, he was the…
Type of mortal being associated with evil and mischief, appearing first in Vedic texts and throughout later Brahmanical mythology. Typically,…
It is a belief system that attributes a spiritual essence to plants, animals and inanimate objects.
The largest sect of Buddhism in the world, it is characterised by the reverence of bodhisattvas, coupled with the pursuit…
An early sramana (ascetic) sect led by Makkhali Gosala in the fifth century BCE, it was a nastika (heterodox) school…