In Hinduism, Kama is the god of love and desire. Some of his iconographical attributes are a bow made from a sugarcane stem, arrows made of five flowers, and a standard with the image of a makara (mythical creature).
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One of the ten avatars of the Hindu deity Vishnu, he is depicted with the body of a man and…
Also known as Durga Saptashati, it is one of the foremost texts within the Shaktism tradition and focuses on the…
A Latin phrase meaning “world axis” and referring to the centre of the earth or the point at which the…
A form of Shiva, he was the tutelary deity of the Vijayanagara empire (1336–1646 CE). Within Hindu mythology, he is…
A prominent feature of Indian sculpture, it depicts a female deity with stylised and sometimes exaggerated feminine features, elaborate hairstyles…
Parshvanatha (b. c. 872 BCE; d. c. 772 BCE) was the twenty-third Tirthankara (propagator of dharma) of Jainism. He is…
The conception of man according to Hindu philosophy as established in the Vedas and the Upanishads. The purusha is a…
A clan of power-seeking figures in the Hindu pantheon. Often mistranslated as "demon," the Sanskrit word asura originally meant "lord"…