A sasana devi or protector goddess of Parshwanatha, the twenty third Tirthankara, she is one of the most revered yakshis in Jainism. She is typically depicted sitting on a lotus with a snake hood covering her head.
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An epithet for the Hindu deity Shiva, meaning "the one who carries Ganga" in Sanskrit. The name derives from the…
In Jain mythology, he is the first chakravartin ("universal emperor") and the oldest son of Rishabha Deva, the first Tirthankara.…
The only female form of Vishnu and the deity of enchantment in the Hindu pantheon. She appears in the Samudra…
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An epithet originally used for the Vedic deity Rudra and now denoting one of the incarnations of the Hindu deity…
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