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The Hindu pantheon is composed of deities that have developed their identities through both the scriptures of Hinduism as well as regional traditions that drew their legends from the faith. Some of the most popular deities of the Hindu pantheon include: Statue of Ganesha. Ganesha, also called Vinayaka and Ganapati, is a son of Shiva and Parvati ...
Saraswati is a Sanskrit fusion word of saras (सरस्) meaning "pooling water", but also sometimes translated as "speech"; and vati (वती), meaning "she who possesses". Originally associated with the river or rivers known as Saraswati, this combination, therefore, means "she who has ponds, lakes, and pooling water" or occasionally ...
Varuna iconography at the 11th-century Rajarani Hindu temple. [14]In Hindu tradition, the theonym Váruṇa (Devanagari: वरुण) is described as a derivation from the verbal root vṛ ("to surround, to cover" or "to restrain, bind") by means of a suffixal -uṇa-, for an interpretation of the name as "he who covers or binds", in reference to the cosmological ocean or river encircling the ...
In Hindu culture, each water body is worshipped as a form of God. Hence, the rivers are worshipped as goddesses and the ocean is worshipped as a god. Varuna, the Lord of All the Water Bodies. Ap, group of water goddesses. Apam Napat, god of fresh water, such as in rivers and lakes. Danu, goddess of primordial waters, mother of Vritra and the ...
7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art. Westland, India. ISBN 978-81-89975-67-8. Monier-Williams, Monier (1974), Brahmanism and Hinduism: Or, Religious Thought and Life in India, as Based on the Veda and Other Sacred Books of the Hindus, Elibron Classics, Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 1-4212-6531-1
Pages in category "Surnames of Hindu origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 284 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yamuna, or Yami, is the personification of the Yamuna river. She is described to be daughter of Surya, the sun god, and Saranyu, the cloud goddess. She is the goddess of life, and the twin of Yama, the god of the underworld. Her other sibling is Tapati, another river goddess. In later texts, she is known as Kalindi.
Dharma (/ ˈ d ɑːr m ə /; Sanskrit: धर्म, pronounced ⓘ) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions, among others.Although dharma is held as an untranslatable into English (or other European languages), the term generally refers to behaviours, which are in harmony with the "order and custom" that sustain life; "virtue", or "religious and moral duties".