A representation of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati with their son Skanda, the god of war. This representation emerged during the Pallava Dynasty in southern India (c. sixth to eighth centuries CE) and depicts a four-armed Shiva sitting beside his consort Parvati, with the infant Skanda dancing in ecstasy between them.
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A deity in the Hindu pantheon, she is the consort of Vishnu, is considered the goddess of wealth and prosperity.…
An alternate name to describe the anandatandava, the cosmic dance of Nataraja, a form of the Hindu deity, Shiva.
An early sramana (ascetic) sect led by Makkhali Gosala in the fifth century BCE, it was a nastika (heterodox) school…
A female Hindu deity originally worshipped as a local river goddess in the region of Hampi in present-day Karnataka and…
In Hindu religious mythology, he is an attendant of the deity Vishnu. Along with Jaya, he is a dvarapala or…
An epithet originally used for the Vedic deity Rudra and now denoting one of the incarnations of the Hindu deity…
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In Hindu mythology, it refers to a class of beings who attend to the deity Shiva. In art, they are…