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In the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, he is the the son of the daitya king Hiranyakashipu and his queen Kayadhu.…
A central concept in Buddhism that denotes the essential or true nature of reality, which is beyond the range of…
Celestial figure of a young, beautiful woman in Indian art and mythology, often associated with nature. The Sanskrit term madanika…
In Hindu mythology, it refers to a class of beings who attend to the deity Shiva. In art, they are…
The mythical king of the Sagara Dynasty who performed several years of penance in the Himalayas. He is known to…
A text of the Lokottaravada school of early Buddhism, it was written in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit between the second…
A Hindu deity of war worshipped predominantly in southern India. The worship of Subrahmanya as Murugan is particularly popular in…
A Sanskrit poem on the life of Rishabnath, the first Tirthankara of Jainism and his sons Bharata and Bahubali. It…