Another name for yalis or vyalas, they are guardian deities in Hindu and Buddhist mythology depicted as a composite creature, with the parts of a lion, an elephant, a horse or a human being. They are usually depicted with open mouths and bulging eyes.
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A text of the Lokottaravada school of early Buddhism, it was written in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit between the second…
An epithet originally used for the Vedic deity Rudra and now denoting one of the incarnations of the Hindu deity…
An epithet for the Hindu god Shiva where he is represented as an ascetic, sitting with his legs crossed and…
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