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Rigvedic deities are deities mentioned in the sacred texts of Rigveda, the principal text of the historical Vedic religion of the Vedic period (1500–500...

is difficult to completely extricate Vedic traditions from the worship. Generally the traditions of village deity tradition or Grama Devta tradition predate...

lingam. Shiva has pre-Vedic roots, and the figure of Shiva evolved as an amalgamation of various older non-Vedic and Vedic deities, including the Rigvedic...

The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples...

Bhagavan God and gender in Hinduism Hindu deities Deva (Buddhism) Jangam Divinity Devata Daeva Diwata The list of Vedic Devas somewhat varies across the manuscripts...

(Sanskrit: इन्द्रधनुस्, indradhanus). Indra was a prominent deity in the Vedic era of Hinduism. In Vedic times Indra was described in Rig Veda 6.30.4 as superior...

goddess of learning. He is identified with the Vedic creator god, Prajapati. His abode is at Satyaloka. The deity is said to have been born out of a lotus that...

Goddess Lakshmi was Samudra's daughter. The Vedic deity Varuna is the deity of the ocean (Samudra). The Vedic deity Indra also occurs frequently in connection...

pre-Vedic traditions became aligned with the Vedic deity Rudra and other Vedic deities, incorporating the non-Vedic Shiva-traditions into the Vedic-Brahmanical...

alone, e.g. as the principal guardian of ṛtá "Truth, Order". In the late Vedic texts and the Brahmanas, Mitra is increasingly associated with the light...

aggregate.. Savitr disappeared as an independent deity from the Hindu pantheon after the end of the Vedic period, but is still worshiped in modern Hinduism...

(Sanskrit: प्रजापति, lit. 'Lord of creation', IAST: Prajāpati) is a Vedic deity of Hinduism. In later literature, Prajapati is identified with the creator-god...

invocations to deities like Indra and Agni, "to secure their benediction for success in battles or for welfare of the clan." The complete corpus of Vedic mantras...

causes or effects. Some Avestan and Vedic deities were viewed as ethical concepts. In Indian religions, deities have been envisioned as manifesting within...

Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic...

to the Vedic deity Savitṛ. It is known as "Mother of the Vedas". The term Gāyatrī may also refer to a type of mantra which follows the same Vedic meter...

Asuras. Hindu deities are part of Hindu mythology, both Devas and Devis feature in one of many cosmological theories in Hinduism. In Vedic literature, Devas...

Vaishnavism. Although Vishnu was a Vedic solar deity, he is mentioned less often compared to Agni, Indra, and other Vedic deities, thereby suggesting that he...

important deity in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times. It has been postulated that the Tamil deity of Murugan was syncretized with the Vedic deity of...

the Vedas is a deity of rain, thunder, lightning, and the one who fertilizes the earth. It is another epithet of Indra, the Vedic deity of the sky and...