An epithet for one of Alokiteshwara’s forms, it is Sanskrit for “the one with eleven heads.” The tenth face represents wrath while the eleventh face depicts Amitabha Buddha, one of the five Dhyani Buddhas.
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Also known as Muyalaka or Muyalakan, he is a dwarf within Hindu mythology who represents spiritual ignorance and has the…
A prominent feature of Indian sculpture, it depicts a female deity with stylised and sometimes exaggerated feminine features, elaborate hairstyles…
Earliest extant text from the Vedic corpus, dated roughly between 1700 and 1200 BCE. Like the other Vedas, the Rigveda…
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