A representation of the Hindu god Vishnu, which shows him reclining atop a coiled form of the serpent Ananta, on top of the Kshira Sagara or “ocean of milk.” Within iconographic traditions, this depiction of the deity symbolises the cosmic balance.
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The equivalent of the Capricorn Zodiac sign within Hindu astrology, it is a mythical sea creature that is believed to…
The seniormost queen of King Dasaratha, she appears in the Hindu epic Ramayana epic as the mother of Rama.
The seventh of the ten incarnations of the Hindu deity Vishnu, Rama was the son of King Dasharatha and Queen…
A form of Tantric Buddhism that developed in India in the medieval period and is currently widely practiced in Tibet,…
A deity in the Hindu pantheon, Vishwakarma is considered a divine engineer and was the architect of Dwarka, Lanka and…
A Buddha in human form, they attain enlightenment once they perform their allotted task on Earth and are released from…
A king mentioned in Hindu texts and the Buddhist Sibi Jataka. He is accorded with several legendary feats in the…
A form of Shiva as a samharamurti (destructive aspect), which shows him vanquishing the elephant-demon Gajasura. In the iconographic depiction,…