Deities

Adbhuta is the tenth of the fourteen Indras, as the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells.

Adhaḥ is the ninth of the ten Āśā Devīs worshipped in the Āśā Daśamī vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Aditi is the mother of the twelve ādityas and wife of Kaśyapa, through whose Payovrata Bhagavān Vishṇu was born as Vāmana.

Āgneyī is the second of the ten Āśā Devīs worshipped in the Āśā Daśamī vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Agni is the deva of fire, who carries oblations to the devas in yajña, witnesses sacred vows and guards the southeast as a lokapāla.

The Agnishvāttas are a class of Pitṛs of living men, who receive tarpaṇa with sesame and sandal water in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Ahi is number 26 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Ahirbudhnya is the devatā of the nakshatra Uttara Bhādrā; his worship on that day brings supreme peace.

Aindrī is the first of the ten Āśā Devīs, the direction-devīs worshipped in the courtyard of the house for the fulfilment of wishes.

Aiśānī is the eighth of the ten Āśā Devīs, the direction-devīs worshipped in the courtyard of the house for the fulfilment of wishes.

Ajaikapāda, the Rudra of Kumbha, son of Vasuśarmā by Śiva's aṃśa, who conquered death as Mṛtyuñjaya and came again as Purīśarmā.

Ajita is the avatāra of Śrī Hari in the Cākshusha manvantara, son of Vairāja and Sambhūti, who churned the ocean and bore Mandara as the tortoise.

The Ājyapas are a class of pitṛs who receive tarpaṇa of water mixed with sesame and sandal, named in the Uttara Parva.

Alakshmī, also called Jyeshṭhā, is the elder sister of Lakshmī, who lives in the Aśvattha tree by the will of Bhagavān Vishṇu.

Ambā is named in the Pratisarga Parva as the maker of Ambāvatī, the divine city in the southern direction where King Pramara ruled.

Anaghā, printed Nadī, is the wife of Dattātreya and the form of Lakshmī; the daityas who lifted her onto their heads lost their śrī.

Anila is the fifth of the Eight Vasus in the list Sumantu gives to Śatānīka in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Aniruddha is the grandson of Bhagavān Kṛshṇa and son of Pradyumna, who married Ushā after being taken to Śoṇitapura.

Añjana was a yaksha, the father of Nandayantī, whose marriage was celebrated at Hāṭakeśvara in the Vāmana Purāṇa.

Annapūrṇā is the devī of food and nourishment, a form of Mahādevī, who gave Agastya Maharshi a vessel that never runs out of food.

Anumanta is one of the twelve devas called Sādhyas, named second in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Ap is number thirty-three of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Aparājita is one of the Eleven Rudras, named fifth in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Bhagavatī Aparājitā is a Mahāśakti whose images receive pratishṭhā, and who receives archanā in the Ānantarya udyāpana, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Waters are the devatā of the nakshatra Pūrvāshāḍhā in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, and receive pūjā with homa on that day.

Āpavatsa is number forty-four of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Ap devatās are the waters as devatās, called on in the Vināyaka-śānti to destroy misfortune, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Aruṇa is the elder son of Kaśyapa and Vinatā, born with half a body, the charioteer of Bhagavān Sūrya and the dawn, who taught the Saptamī Kalpa to Arvāvasu.

Aryamā is one of the twelve Ādityas, sons of Kaśyapa and Aditi, a chief of the divine pitṛs and a guardian of the vāstu-maṇḍala.

The Āśā Devīs are the ten direction-devīs who receive pūjā in the Āśā Daśamī vrata, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Ashṭādaśabhujā, the Eighteen-armed, receives pūjā on the śukla ashṭamī of Āśvina and Kārttika, in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Ashṭa Mātṛkās are the Eight Mothers, eight śaktis who rose to drink the blood of the asura Andhaka when Bhagavān Śiva fought him.

The Ashṭa Vasus are the eight Vasus, sons of Dharma and a gaṇa of the devas, who serve Bhagavān Sūrya and Brahmā and descended by their aṃśas as bhaktas in the Kali Yuga.

Asura is number twenty-two of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Aśvinī Devatās, or Aśvins, are the twin divine physicians, sons of Sūrya, also called Nāsatya and Dasra, who won the right to Soma and defeated Sāvarṇi and Śani.

Atiteja is one of the Twelve Ādityas, named tenth in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Aurva, also called Dahana and Vāḍava, is the raudra tejas that Brahmā set in the form of a Rudra over the Śaśimaṇḍala, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Āvaha is the second of the seven Maruts who move in the antariksha on separate paths, named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Aṃśa is the ninth of the Twelve Ādityas in the list Sumantu gives to Śatānīka in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Aṃśu is the Āditya who attends Bhagavān Sūrya with Bhaga in the months of Mārgaśīrsha and Pushya.

Aṃśumān is the ninth of the twelve mūrtis of Bhagavān Sūrya; he dwells in Candra, gladdens the people and gives them contentment.

Aṃśumat is the Āditya of the month of Āshāḍha, who gives heat and light with fifteen rays as the Brahma Parva prints it.

Bahulā is one of the five wish-fulfilling cows, the Lokamātās, who arose with amṛta at the churning of the Kshīra Sāgara.

Bāla Mukunda is the form of Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa as a shining child on a vaṭa tree, whom Mārkaṇḍeya Maharshi met during the great dissolution.

Balarāma is the elder brother of Bhagavān Kṛshṇa, son of Vasudeva and Rohiṇī, and an aṃśa of Ādiśesha, the serpent who is Bhagavān Vishṇu's couch.

The Barhishads are a class of Pitṛs, the Pitṛs of living men with the Saumyas and Agnishvāttas, who receive tarpaṇa of sesame and sandal water.

Bhadra, also called Vishṭi, is the fierce daughter of Bhagavān Sūrya and Devī Chāyā, the sister of Śani, whom Brahmā set among the karaṇas, with her own vrata.

Bhadrakālī is the fierce form of Devī Umā, brought forth by her beside Vīrabhadra to help destroy Daksha's yajña.

Bhaga is a deva whose eyes Bhagavān Śiva crushed at Daksha's yajña; Śiva is praised as the destroyer of Bhaga's eyes in vrata and stotra.

Bhairava is the terrible form of Bhagavān Śiva who cut off Brahmā's fifth head, was freed from Brahmahatyā at Kāśī, and guards that city.

Bhallāṭa is the twenty-eighth of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Bhavana is the eleventh of the Eleven Rudras, among the thirty-three devas named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Bhāvya is the ninth of the fourteen Indras in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, coming after Bali and before Adbhuta.

Bhīmāsura was the asura son of Kumbhakarṇa and Karkaṭī, who conquered the three worlds and was destroyed by Śiva, rising from a pārthiva liṅga.

Bhūdevī is the devī of the Earth, a consort of Bhagavān Vishṇu, whose appeal to the devas led to the Kurukshetra war.

Bhuvaneśvarī is a Mahāśakti named in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa among those whose images receive pratishṭhā.

Bhṛṅgī is a gaṇa of Śiva who honoured Śiva alone, and was left a skeleton by Pārvatī until Śiva gave him a third leg.

Brahmā is the four-faced Creator, born from the lotus of Bhagavān Vishṇu's navel, who brings forth beings and the Prajāpatis in each kalpa.

Brāhmī is the first of the seven Mātṛkās and the tenth of the ten Āśā Devīs in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Buddha avatāra is the form Bhagavān Vishṇu took as the son of Śuddhodana to turn the asuras away from the Veda, as the Agni Purāṇa tells.

Buddhi is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, called on to consecrate the yajamāna.

Budha is the son of Candra and Tārā, the graha of Wednesday, husband of Ilā, father of the line of Purūravas, and the deva of the Budhāshṭamī vrata.

Cāmuṇḍā, also called Raudrī, Kālarātrī and Tāmasī, is the tāmasic Śakti who slew the asura Ruru, and she is one of the Saptamātṛkās.

Candra, also called Soma, is the deva of the moon and the ruler of all herbs and plants, and the son of the ṛshi Atri.

Candramajalā is the seventh of the nine Durgās praised by the devas at Karachatrāpurī in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Candrikā was a gandharva maiden, daughter of Suprabha, who was cursed to become a piśāca and later freed by the grace of Lomaśa Maharshi.

Carakī is placed outside the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the īśāna corner, one of four set beyond its forty-five devatās in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Carcikā is a fierce devī who arose in the war between Andhaka and Bhagavān Śiva, as told in the Vāmana Purāṇa.

The Catuḥshashṭi Yoginīs are the sixty-four yoginīs, eight śaktis born of each of the eight Mātṛkās, who grant siddhis to those who worship them.

Caṇḍeśvara, born from the fire of Rudra, is the attendant of Bhagavān Śiva who receives the nirmālya and completes every Śiva-pūjā.

Caṇḍīśa is stationed by Bhagavān Śaṅkara, with Gaṇeśa, Nandī and the Guhyakas, to guard the place of the yajña in the Pratisarga Parva.

Chāyā, the shadow of Saṃjñā, is the second wife of Sūrya, called Nikshubhā, the earth, and the mother of Sāvarṇi Manu, Tapatī and Śanaiścara.

Dairāsada, son of the asura Bhasmāsura, attacked Kāśī, and Mahotkaṭa answered by setting up the 56 Vināyakas around the city.

Daitya-senā is the sister of Devasenā in the Mahābhārata's account of Skanda's birth. The rākshasa Keśī carried her off, and Indra rescued her.

Daksha the Viśvedeva is the second of the ten Viśvedevas named by Sumantu Muni in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Dakshiṇā Devī is the śakti of ritual giving, the devī of every dakshiṇā offered in a yajña. She was once the gopī Suśīlā in Goloka.

Dāruka is Kṛshṇa's charioteer in the Mahābhārata. Dārukā is the rākshasī of the Dārukāvana whom Bhagavān Śiva destroyed at Nāgeśvara.

The Daśāvatāra are the ten main avatāras of Bhagavān Vishṇu, from Matsya the fish to Kalki, who is still to come.

Dattātreya, son of the ṛshi Atri and Anasūyā, is an avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu and the avadhūta who learned from twenty-four gurus.

Dauvārika is number 18 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Daṇḍanātha Vārāhī is the boar-faced commander of Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī's army in the Lalitopākhyāna, and one of the Saptamātṛkās.

Daṇḍanāyaka is an attendant of Bhagavān Sūrya, who leads by daṇḍanīti, writes down the pāpa and puṇya of the people and stands with Piṅgala at Sūrya's door.

Two figures bear the name Daṇḍapāṇi: the Yaksha Harikeśa, guardian of Kāśī, and the son of Pauṇḍraka Vāsudeva who sent a Kṛtyā against Kṛshṇa.

Devakī, wife of Vasudeva and a daughter of the Yādavas, is the mother of Bhagavān Kṛshṇa, who was born to her in Kaṃsa's prison.

Devāntaka, the younger son of the asura king Raudraketu, fought Mahōtkaṭa, the Kṛta-yuga avatāra of Gaṇeśa, and broke his tusk before he was killed.

The devas are the sons of Kaśyapa and Aditi who hold the offices of the worlds, live by yajña, and take refuge in Bhagavān Vishṇu in every danger.

Dhanvantarī is the divine physician who rose from the Kshīrasāgara with the pot of amṛta and brought Āyurveda, the science of life, into the world.

Dhanyā was one of three divine sisters cursed by Sanatkumāra to be born as humans, and she became the mother of Sītā.

Dhara is one of the Eight Vasus, named second in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Dharma the Sādhya is the ninth of the twelve devas called Sādhyas, named by Sumantu Muni in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Dhātā is a name of Bhagavān Sūrya for a month and the second of the twelve mūrtis of Āditya, who as Prajāpati creates beings.

Dhātṛ is one of the twelve Ādityas in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, the Āditya of Kārtika, with eleven hundred rays.

Dhruva is one of the Eight Vasus, named first in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Dhundhi Vināyaka is the chief Gaṇeśa of Kāśī, who guards the city and whom Śiva praised in a hymn of fifty-seven verses.

Dhṛti is one of the ten Viśvedevas, the seventh in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Dhṛti is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma, who are asked to consecrate the yajamāna in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Dik-Devatās are the ten devīs of the directions, wedded to the Lokapālas, the Ashṭadikpālakas and the ten Dikpālas who guard them: their cities, weapons, vāhanas and rites.

Dindi, the tapasvin and leader of gaṇas in Bhagavān Sūrya's retinue, freed from brahmahatyā by Sūrya's darśana, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The ten Diśā-devīs are made as golden images and given in the Tithi-dāna of Daśamī, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Divaspati is the fourteenth of the fourteen Indras named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, after Śatadhāma.

Durgā is the supreme Devī, the Mūlaprakṛti, slayer of Vaitrāsura, Mahishāsura, Śumbha and Durgāsura, with her forms, mantras and pūjā in the Agni Purāṇa.

Dūshaṇāsura was the asura who tormented the brāhmaṇas of Avantī until Bhagavān Śiva appeared as Mahākāla and destroyed him.

Ekādaśī Devī arose from the body of Bhagavān Vishṇu, killed the asura Mura with a hūṃkāra, and became the presiding devī of the eleventh tithi.

Gadādhara, the bearer of the mace, is Bhagavān Vishṇu manifest at the kshetra of King Gaya, where he freed Indra of his pāpa.

Gajānana, the elephant-faced one, is the Dvāpara-yuga avatāra of Bhagavān Gaṇeśa, born to Pārvatī to slay the daitya Sindūra.

Gajavalī is one of the two śaktis of Kumārasvāmi (Skanda), seated beside him at Kumāraśikhara on Mount Meru in the Kailāsa Saṃhitā.

Gajendra, the king of elephants, was seized by a crocodile, cried out to Bhagavān Śrī Hari, and was rescued and given moksha.

Gandharva is number 14 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Garuḍa is the divine eagle, the vāhana of Bhagavān Vishṇu, son of Kaśyapa and Vinatā, and the composer of the Garuḍa Purāṇa.

Gayāsura was an asura whose tapas made all who saw him reach moksha; Bhagavān Vishṇu pressed his body down to make the tīrtha of Gayā.

Gāyatrī Devī is the vedamātā, the mother of the Vedas, who sat beside Brahmā at his mahāyajña at Pushkara and answered Sāvitrī's śāpas with varas.

Gaṅgā Devī is the holiest of rivers, a primary aṃśa of Mūla Prakṛti, who came to earth through the tapas of Bhagīratha and flowed first through Śiva's jaṭā.

Gaṇapati, also called Gaṇeśa and Vināyaka, is the first deva to be worshipped, the master of the vighnas, whose vratas, Śānti and Kalpa the Purāṇas teach.

Ghaṇṭākarṇā is named among those surrounding Bhagavān Śaṅkara at his darśana in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Grashaṇa was one of the ten chief commanders of Tārakāsura's daitya army, who fought Yama in a long bāhuyuddha and fell to Bhagavān Vishṇu's Sudarśana Cakra.

Guhā is number 12 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Hanumān is the son of Añjanā and Vāyu, the great devotee of Bhagavān Rāma and the hero of the Sundara Kāṇḍa.

Hara is one of the Eleven Rudras, named first in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Harasiddhi is the ninth of the nine Durgās of Karachatrāpurī, praised by the devas in the Dhvaja Navamī account of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Hayagrīva is the horse-headed form of Bhagavān Vishṇu, keeper of the Vedas; the name also belongs to an asura who stole them.

Haṃsa is the avatāra in which Śrī Hari took the form of a swan and taught the Sanakādis, Brahmā and Nārada the dharma of moksha.

Himavān is the Himālaya mountain as a person: king of mountains, husband of Menā and father of Pārvatī, who gave her in marriage to Bhagavān Śiva.

Hūhū was a gandharva cursed by Devala Ṛshi to become a crocodile; he seized Gajendra's leg and was freed when Bhagavān Vishṇu came to save the elephant.

Indra is the king of the devas and ruler of Svargaloka, known as Śatamakha and Sahasra-netra, who wields the Vajra made from the bones of Dadhīci Mahārshi.

Indrākshī is one of the Mahāśaktis whose pratishṭhā the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa names with Vārāhī and Kāmākshī.

Īśāna is the dikpāla of the north-east, invoked with his gaṇas as Viśveśvara and Viśvamūrti in the rites of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Iḍā Devī is the śakti of Soma and the elder wife of the Aśvinīkumāras, as Bhagavān Sūrya tells them in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Jagannātha is Bhagavān Vishṇu as the self-arisen wooden mūrti at Purushottama Kshetra (Jagannātha Purī) on Nīlācala hill, by the eastern ocean. The Bhavishya Purāṇa tells of his word to Satyavrata and to Kṛshṇacaitanya.

Jaladevī is the devī of the Pañcappa lake in Daṇḍakāraṇya. She held twelve young women captive until Bhagavān Rāma strung his bow beside the lake.

Jaladevī took the form of a mare and drank the world-burning tejas, then vomited it out, as the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells.

The Jalamātṛkās are the Mātṛ devīs of the water, worshipped in a tank and asked to protect it, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Jambhaka is placed on the west side of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Vāstu-pūjana of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Jayā is the first of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa, in the Aparādhaśataśamana Vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Jaya is number 35 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Jaya and Vijaya are the two door-keepers of Śrī Hari in Vaikuṇṭha, who fell by the Kumāras' śāpa and were born three times as his enemies.

Jayā and Vijayā are the two closest sakhīs of Pārvatī at Kailāsa. Their advice led Pārvatī to create Gaṇeśa as her own doorguard.

Jayanta is the son of Indra and Śacī. In the Kākāsura episode he took the form of a crow and wounded Sītā's foot, and Bhagavān Rāma blinded one of his eyes.

Jayanta is number 3 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Jayantī is the third of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa, in the Aparādhaśataśamana Vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Jaṭāyu was the great eagle, a friend of Daśaratha, who fought Rāvaṇa to save Sītā and received his last rites from Rāma.

Jvālāmālinī, the Bhagavatī garlanded with flames, is a śakti of the yoga-pīṭha whose mantra, the Agni Purāṇa says, gives victory in battle.

Kāla is an attendant of Bhagavān Sūrya's ratha, appointed with Upakāla by the Aśvinī Kumāras, as the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells.

Kāla is one of the ten Viśvedevas in the Bhavishya Purāṇa, which also gives Kāla as a name of Agni and a name in the worship of Yama.

Kālabhairava is the fierce form of Parameśvara Śiva who cut off Brahmā's fifth head and was freed from brahmahatyā at the Kapālamocana tīrtha in Kāśī.

Kālāgni Rudra, the fire of time as Rudra, is the form in which Bhagavān Vishṇu, speaking as Agni, teaches the Agni Purāṇa and burns the pātālas at pralaya.

Kālakaṇṭaka is the fourth of the six names to whom homa is offered in the Vināyaka-śānti of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Kālanemi is a mighty asura general in the Skanda, Matsya and Vāmana Purāṇas, slain by Bhagavān Vishṇu and reborn, the Purāṇas say, as Kaṃsa of Mathurā.

Kalāvatī was one of three divine sisters cursed by Sanatkumāra to be born as human women, and she became the mother of Rādhā.

Kali Deva (Kali-Purusha) presides over the Kali Yuga: his line from Adharma, Parīkshit's five places for him, his surrender to Śrī Kṛshṇa, the signs of the age, and his defeat in the Kalki Purāṇa.

Kālīya is the great nāgarāja who poisoned a pool of the Yamunā near Vṛndāvana until the child Kṛshṇa danced on his heads and set him free.

Kalki is the tenth and last of the Daśāvatāra, the form of Bhagavān Vishṇu who will appear at the end of the Kali Yuga to restore dharma.

Kāma is the sixth of the ten Viśvedevas named in the Bhavishya Purāṇa, the sons of Dharma.

Kāmadeva, also called Manmatha, is the deva of love and desire, burned to ash by Bhagavān Śiva and born again as Pradyumna, son of Bhagavān Kṛshṇa.

Kāmākshī, a Mahāśakti of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, the form Mahālakshmī took to protect her bhakta King Śaka.

Kāmeśvara is the beautiful form of Bhagavān Parameśvara who is the husband of Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī in the Lalitopākhyāna.

Kānti is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma in the abhisheka words of the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Kapardī is the eighth of the Eleven Rudras in the list of the thirty-three devas in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Karālikā is named between Rudra and Varāha among those who receive pūjā at the dedication of pasture land, in the Madhyama Parva.

Kārttikeya, also called Skanda, Kumāra and Murugan, is the son of Bhagavān Śiva, commander of the devas and slayer of Tārakāsura.

Kauśikī is the bright warrior form of the Devī that came forth from Pārvatī to meet Śumbha and Niśumbha, and from whose brow Cāmuṇḍā arose.

Ketu is the ninth of the nine grahas, smoke-coloured, holding a sword and a lamp, worshipped in the north-west in the graha-yajña and with Sūrya. The Bhavishya Purāṇa calls him the son of Brahmā.

Kīrti is the twelfth of the fourteen Indras in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, following Susāttvika and followed by Śatadhāma.

Kīrti is the first of the daughters that Bhagavān Brahmā gave to Dharma, and a mother named among the wives of Dharma, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Kratu is the first of the ten Viśvedevas named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Kriyā is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma in the abhisheka words of the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Kshema and Lābha are the two sons of Gaṇeśa, born from his unions with Siddhi and Buddhi.

Kshemakarī is the third of the nine Durgās praised by the devas at Karachatrāpurī, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Kshetrapāla is the guardian of the sacred ground, holding śūlas, honoured at the door and given bali in the pūjās and homas of the Agni Purāṇa.

Kubera is the king of the yakshas, master of the nava-nidhis and guardian of the north, and the eternal friend of Bhagavān Śiva.

Kuja, also called Maṅgala, Aṅgāraka or Bhauma, is the deva of the planet Mars, one of the nine grahas, whose birth the Purāṇas tell in several ways.

Kumuda, a son of the cosmic serpent Śesha, was freed from the asura Pralambāsura when Kārttikeya slew him.

Kūrma, the tortoise, is the second avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, who bore Mount Mandara during the churning of the ocean.

Kuru is the eighth of the ten Viśvedevas named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Kūshmāṇḍa is the fifth of the six names given homa in the Vināyaka snāna, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Kuṭhodarī was a rākshasī of huge size, granddaughter of Kumbhakarṇa, who swallowed Bhagavān Kalki's army and was killed by him.

Kṛshṇa, also called Vāsudeva and Govinda, is Bhagavān Vishṇu's avatāra in Dvāpara Yuga, born to Devakī and Vasudeva, and the Parabrahman in Goloka.

Kṛshṇa is an attendant of Bhagavān Sūrya's ratha, appointed by Nara and Nārāyaṇa, named in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

In the Kalki Purāṇa, Kṛtayuga, the age of full dharma, appears as a golden brahmacārī who fights beside Dharma against Kali.

Lajjā is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma in the abhisheka words of the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Śrī Lakshmī is the eternal consort of Bhagavān Vishṇu and the devī of wealth, beauty and all that is auspicious. She rose from the ocean of milk and chose Vishṇu.

Lakshmī takes a form in each avatāra of Vishṇu, as Sītā with Rāma and as Rukmiṇī and Satyabhāmā with Kṛshṇa, as the Garuḍa Purāṇa teaches.

Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī, also called Kāmākshī, is the supreme Parāśakti who rose from Indra's yajña, slew Bhaṇḍāsura and is worshipped through the Śrī Cakra.

Mahāgaurī is Prakṛti in her form of five faces, ten arms and three eyes, named Śivā, in the Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Mahākāla is a gaṇa of Bhagavān Śiva, named in his retinue and in the phala of the Harakālī vrata, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Mahākālī is the first manifestation of the Devī, who rose from Bhagavān Vishṇu's body to slay Madhu and Kaiṭabha when Brahmā prayed, as the Umā Saṃhitā tells. In the Bhavishya Purāṇa she warns King Sudarśana of the great storm.

Mahālakshmī of Kolhāpur is the devī of a famed Śakti-pīṭha in the south, whom the Kāśī Khaṇḍa names and whom Agastya Maharshi saw and praised.

This Mahārudra destroyed the daitya Hirbu, was made king of the Śaśimaṇḍala, and was later born on the Himālaya as Bhāratīśa.

Mahāruṇḍā is the fifth of the nine Durgās praised by the devas at Karachatrāpurī.

Mahāśāstṛ, also called Hariharaputra, Śāstā and Ayyappa, is the son of Vishṇu in his Mohinī form and Śiva, born after the amṛta-manthana.

Mahāsatī is the Bhagavatī on whom Devī Pārvatī was told to meditate in the Rambhā vrata; she pervades all in twelve forms.

Mahāśvetā is the devī worshipped with Bhagavān Sūrya, set before him with Śrī, and the japa of the Sūrya vratas of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Mahishāsura is the buffalo asura who conquered the three worlds and was slain by the Devī, as the Purāṇas tell in several accounts.

Mahishāsuramardinī is Śrī Durgā Devī, formed from the tejas of all the devas, who slew Mahishāsura at Devīpattana.

Mahōtkaṭa is the Kṛta-yuga avatāra of Bhagavān Gaṇeśa, born to Kāśyapa and Aditi to defeat the asuras Devāntaka and Narāntaka.

Manasā Devī is the devī of all serpents and of all mantras, a part of Mūla Prakṛti, the daughter of Kaśyapa and the sister of Ananta.

Manojava is the sixth of the fourteen Indras named in the Brahma Parva, who comes after Śikhi and before Ojasvī.

Manu is one of the twelve Sādhyas, the devas who partake of yajña, named by Sumantu in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Marudgaṇas, or Maruts, are the forty-nine wind devas born of Diti when Indra cut her unborn child; seven Maruts were born in each earlier manvantara.

Mātali is the charioteer of Indra, who carries Arjuna to Indraloka, drives Rāma's chariot against Rāvaṇa and brings Indra's call to Yayāti.

Mātaṅgī is the fierce, 18-armed śakti born from the anger of Śrīmātā at Dharmāraṇya to slay the daitya Karṇāṭaka.

Mati is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma, asked to consecrate the yajamāna in the abhisheka of the śāntika rites.

Matsya is the fish avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, the first of the Daśāvatāras, who saved the Vedas and Vaivasvata Manu from the great dissolution.

Māyādevī is named twice in the Pratisarga Parva: by her power Ayodhyā became full again, and the city of Mahāvatī was built by her.

In the Kalki Purāṇa, Māyādevī comes to the battle of Kīkaṭapura, is seen to be an aṃśa of Lakshmī, and merges into Bhagavān Kalki.

Māyūreśvara is the Tretāyuga avatāra of Gaṇeśa, born to Śiva and Pārvatī to defeat the asura Sindhu, who had conquered the three worlds.

Maṅgalacaṇḍikā is a part of Mūla Prakṛti, born from the face of Durgādevī, who gives all auspiciousness and is worshipped by women on Tuesdays.

Māṭhara is the attendant whom Indra appointed to the ratha of Bhagavān Sūrya; he is installed to the south with Daṇḍa.

Medhā is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma, asked to consecrate the yajamāna in the abhisheka of the śāntika rites.

Menā is the wife of Himavān, the Himālaya, and the mother of Pārvatī, whose cry U-mā gave her daughter the name Umā.

Mita is the first of the six names who receive homa in the Vināyaka-śānti.

Mitra, the Āditya named with Varuṇa: father of Vasishṭha and Agastya, giver of attendants to Skanda, and a devatā of the vāstu-maṇḍala.

Mohinī is the enchanting feminine form of Bhagavān Vishṇu, who shares the amṛta with the devas, slays Malakāsura and is followed by Śiva.

Mṛga is the sixteenth of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala.

Mṛgarāja is the fifteenth of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala.

Mṛtyu is Death in person: in the Mahābhārata a devī born from Brahmā's anger, in the Padma Purāṇa Sunīdhā's father, in the Agni Purāṇa Māyā's son.

Nairṛti is the fourth of the ten Āśā Devīs worshipped in the Āśā Daśamī vrata.

The Nakshatra-Mātṛkās are prayed to in the Āśā Daśamī vrata with the nakshatras, grahas and tārāgrahas for the fulfilment of one's wishes.

Nakshatrapurusha is Bhagavān Vishṇu in the form of the nakshatras, whose limbs receive pūjā one by one in a vrata for excellent form.

Nandā is the first of the five Lokamātā cows that arose with amṛta at the churning of the Kshīra Sāgara.

Nandā is the second of the nine Durgās praised by the devas at Karachatrāpurī in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Nandī is the chief of Bhagavān Śiva's gaṇas, born from Śilāda's tapas, who won immortality and the rank of gaṇādhipati through Śiva's grace.

Nandinī is the cow by whose vara Dilīpa had his son Raghu; Umā Devī is worshipped under this name in the Govatsa Dvādaśī.

Nara is the fourth of the twelve Sādhyas, devas who partake of yajña, named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Narāntaka was the elder asura son of Raudraketu, who conquered Bhūloka and Pātāla, burned Kāśī, and was killed by Mahotkaṭa in his Virāṭ form.

Narasiṃha is the fourth avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, who took a half-man, half-lion form to destroy the asura Hiraṇyakaśipu and protect Prahlāda.

Bhagavān Narasiṃha, the man-lion, is the fourth main avatāra of Vishṇu, who came from a pillar to slay Hiraṇyakaśipu and protect Prahlāda.

Nārāyaṇa is one of the twelve Sādhyas, the devas who partake of yajña, named by Sumantu in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Navadurgā are the nine Durgās, forms of Devī Durgā installed and worshipped together, eight in the directions and one in the centre.

The Navagrahas are the nine graha devas: Sūrya, Candra, Maṅgala, Budha, Bṛhaspati, Śukra, Śani, Rāhu and Ketu, described in the Agni and Bhavishya Purāṇas.

Nidrā Devī is the devī of sleep, whom Bhagavān Rāma thanks each morning in the Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa before he begins his worship.

Nirṛti is the dikpāla of the south-west, the Rākshasa among the guardians of the directions, who holds a sword and rides a donkey.

Nityaklinnā is the Devī of the Nityaklinnā vidyā, six-armed and clad in red, worshipped on a red triangle with an eight-petalled lotus.

Nīvaha is the sixth of the seven Maruts who move in the antariksha on separate paths, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Ojasvī is the seventh of the fourteen Indras, named by the Brahma Parva as the Indra of the present time.

Padmāvatī is the consort of Śrīnivāsa at Veṅkaṭādri, found in the earth by King Ākāśarāja and wed to Śrīnivāsa in the Skanda Purāṇa's Veṅkaṭācala Māhātmya.

Pāpanāśinī is the fourth of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Paraśurāma, son of Jamadagni and Reṇukā, is the sixth avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu; he cleared the earth of adharmic kshatriya kings twenty-one times.

Parīvaha is the seventh of the seven Maruts who move in the antariksha on separate paths, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Parjanya is the deva of the rain-cloud, made by Prajāpati, ninth of the twelve Ādityas and first devatā of the east in the vāstu-maṇḍala.

Pārvatī, also called Umā, Gaurī and Aparṇā, is the Paraśakti of Bhagavān Śiva, daughter of Himavān and Menā, and mother of Kārttikeya and Gaṇeśa.

Pāśa is number 24 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Paśu is number 23 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Pavana is the name of the fire produced by the churning of the araṇi, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Pilipiccha is the devatā placed on the north side of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Piṅgala is the scribe and attendant of Bhagavān Sūrya in the Bhavishya Purāṇa, standing at his right and guarding the door of Sūryaloka.

Piṅgalā is the śakti of Bhagavān Sūrya and the younger wife of the Aśvinīkumāras, as the Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells.

Prabhā is one of the eight mūrtis of Sarasvatī Devī named in the prayer of the Sārasvata vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Prabhāsa is the eighth of the Vasus, husband of Brahmavādinī and father of Viśvakarman, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Prabhu Sādhya is the twelfth of the twelve Sādhyas named in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Pramohinī was a gandharva maiden, daughter of Śukasaṃgīti, who received a śāpa, was freed on the Revā, married a brahmacārī and reached Vishṇu-loka.

Pratosha is a deva of the Tushita gaṇa named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Pratyūsha is the seventh of the eight Vasus named in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Pravaha is the first of the seven Maruts named in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Prāṇa is the third of the twelve Sādhyas named in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Prīti is the wife of Kāmadeva and co-wife of Rati. The Bhavishya Purāṇa tells of her former birth as Anaṅgavatī.

Pūshan, the radiant deva who leapt on Bhagavān Śiva at Daksha's yajña and lost his teeth, as the Vāmana Purāṇa tells.

Pushpadanta is number 20 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Pushṭi is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, called on at the abhisheka of the Graha-yajña.

Pushṭi Devī stands on the left of Bhagavān Vāsudeva in his dhyāna, with Bhagavatī Kamalā on his right, in the Madhyama Parva.

Pūtanā was the rākshasī whom Kaṃsa sent to kill the infant Kṛshṇa with poisoned milk. Kṛshṇa drank her life, and she reached Goloka as a mother.

Pṛśnigarbha is the name of Śrī Hari when he was born as the son of Pṛśni and the Prajāpati Sutapas, in answer to their tapas.

Pṛthvīdhara is number 43 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Rādhā is the beloved of Śrī Kṛshṇa and the supreme Prakṛti, the devī of Bṛndāvana in Goloka, as the Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa and the Padma Purāṇa tell.

Rāhu is the eldest of the fourteen Saimhikeyas and the graha who swallows Sūrya and Candra. His severed head became deathless after he drank amṛta.

Raivata is the ninth of the Eleven Rudras, among the thirty-three devas named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Rājaputra is the sixth of the six names given homa in the Vināyaka-śānti of the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Rajas is one of four given the guarding of the directions on the ratha of Bhagavān Sūrya by the Viśvedevas, in the Brahma Parva.

Rājayakshmā is the forty-second of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Rājña and Sausha are the very strong doorkeepers of Sūryaloka, the avatāras of Kārttikeya and Bhagavān Śiva, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Raktabīja, the blood-seed, was an asura in Śumbha's army. Each drop of his blood made a new Raktabīja, until Cāmuṇḍā drank all his blood.

Rāma, son of Daśaratha, is the seventh avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, whose life is told in the Rāmāyaṇa and in many Purāṇas.

Rambhā is the most beautiful apsarā of Indra's court, who helped Indra defeat Vṛtrāsura and advised Sunīdhā, and who was turned to stone by Viśvāmitra. The Bhavishya Purāṇa has her attend Bhagavān Sūrya.

Rāshṭralakshmī is the Lakshmī of King Rūpasena's kingdom, who wept in the śmaśāna and told Vīravara how the king's life could be saved.

Rati is the wife of Manmatha (Kāma), the devī of love and desire, who appears in the Padma, Skanda and Śiva Purāṇas.

Rātri, the devī of night, was born from Brahmā's body and entered the womb of Menā so that Pārvatī could be born.

Raudraketu was an asura king, initiated by Nārada, father of Devāntaka and Narāntaka, who beheaded his son in a tāntric rite.

Rāvaṇa was the ten-headed king of Laṅkā, son of the ṛshi Viśravas, who carried off Sītā and was slain by Bhagavān Rāma.

Revanta is the son of Bhagavān Sūrya and Saṃjñā, the master of horses, whom one on the road worships to arrive safely.

Revatī is the eighth of the nine Durgās praised by the devas at Karachatrāpurī in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Roga is the twenty-fifth of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Rohiṇī Devī is the wife of Candra, who gave up salt in the Gaurī vrata, kept the Umāmaheśvara vrata and is worshipped with Candra in many rites.

Śacī, also called Indrāṇī and Paulomī, is the consort of Indra, a pativratā who guided Indra back to his throne and brought down Nahusha.

Sadāśiva is the form of Bhagavān Śiva above Brahmā, Vishṇu, Rudra and Īśvara, the sole cause of the Śāntyatīta kalā in the Śaiva dīkshā.

The Sādhyas, the host of devatās of Tapoloka, in the deva army, in the form of Kātyāyanī Devī and at the tīrthas, per the Vāmana Purāṇa.

Śākha, Viśākha and Naigama are three divine beings born from the places where Indra's vajra struck the child Kārttikeya.

Sāla is the third of the six names given homa in the Vināyaka-śānti of the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Sama is one of the twelve Sādhyas, named eighth in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Śambara was an asura, a master of māyā, who carried off Rati and the infant Pradyumna and was killed by Pradyumna.

Śambhu is one of the Eleven Rudras, named seventh in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Samudra is the deva of the ocean, who appears before King Kārtavīrya Arjuna and sends him to the āśrama of Jamadagni and his son Paraśurāma.

Sandhyā was born from the mind of Brahmā, gave up her body in tapas, became dawn and dusk, and was reborn as Arundhatī, wife of Vasishṭha.

Śani, also called Śanaiścara, is the graha of Saturday, the son of Saṃjñā called Chāyā, black like charcoal, worshipped in the navagraha rites. The Bhavishya Purāṇa tells of Pippalāda and of King Nala's stuti.

Śānti is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma in the abhisheka words of the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Saptamātṛkās are the seven divine mothers, the śaktis of the devas, who fight beside Devī against Śumbha and Niśumbha.

Śāradā Devī, giver of all auspiciousness, gave King Rāshṭrapāla the city of Mahāvatī and made Kānyakubja, in the Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Sarasvatī, also called Vāgīśvarī, is the devī of speech, learning and the arts, and the Purāṇas tell of her pūjā, her origins and her river forms.

Sarpa is number thirty of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Śatadhāma is the thirteenth of the fourteen Indras in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, whose bracket also gives him as Ṛtudhāma.

Satī, the first wife of Bhagavān Śiva, is the devī Śivā born as the daughter of Daksha. She gave up her body at Daksha's yajña and was reborn as Pārvatī.

Satya, Truth in the form of a man, spoke to King Satyadatta when poverty entered his treasury, and returned because the king kept to truth.

Satya is number six of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Satya is one of the ten Viśvedevas, named fourth in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Satyanārāyaṇa is Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa in his nature as Satya, who in Kali Yuga gives fruit directly to all who keep his vrata, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Satyas are devas of a coming manvantara, named among those to come in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Saumyā is the seventh of the ten Āśā Devīs, the direction-devīs of the Āśā Daśamī vrata, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Sāvitra is number thirty-four of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Sāvitrī Devī arose from the tongue of Bhagavān Kṛshṇa, became the wife of Brahmā, and is the Devī of the Vedas and the Gāyatrī. In the Bhavishya Purāṇa she presides over the Sūrya maṇḍala and gives King Aśvapati a vara.

Savitṛ Deva is the devatā of the nakshatra Hasta and the treasury of all tejas, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Saṃjñā is the daughter of Viśvakarma and the wife of Sūrya, and the mother of Yama, Yamunā, Vaivasvata Manu and the twin Aśvins. The Bhavishya Purāṇa tells her account in its Brahma Parva.

Saṃvaha is one of the seven Maruts, named fourth in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Bhagavān Saṅkarshaṇa heads the vyūhas honoured with Bhagavān Vishṇu, and granted sāyujya to the brāhmaṇa Ajagara, in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Śaṅkhacūḍa was a dānava king, Sudāma in his past life, husband of Tulasī, killed by Bhagavān Śiva; from his bones came the śaṅkha.

Śaṅkumātra is one of the ten Viśvedevas, named ninth in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Sena, also called Devasenā, is the wife of Kārttikeya, the commander of the divine army.

Shashṭhī Devī, also called Devasenā, is the mātṛkā who protects all children, wife of Kumārasvāmī, worshipped on the sixth lunar day.

The Shoḍaśa Mātṛkās are the sixteen Mātṛkās who first receive pūjā in the vṛshotsarga, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Siddhi and Buddhi are the two consorts of Gaṇeśa, daughters of Brahmā in the Gaṇeśa Purāṇa and of Viśvarūpa Prajāpati in the Śiva Purāṇa.

Śikhi is the fifth of the fourteen Indras in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, followed by Manojava.

Śikhī is the first of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Sindhu, king of the daityas, was born in the ocean, won a vara from Sūrya, conquered Indra's Amarāvatī and was slain by Māyūreśvara, Gaṇeśa's Tretā-yuga avatāra.

Sindūra, a red-bodied daitya born from Brahmā's yawn, conquered the three worlds and was slain by Gajānana, Gaṇeśa's Dvāpara-yuga avatāra.

Sinīvālī is a daughter of Aṅgiras and Smṛti, one of the nine deva women who came to Soma after his Rājasūya, and the name of a kind of amāvāsyā.

Sītā is the daughter of king Janaka of Mithilā and the consort of Bhagavān Rāma, born from the earth and honoured as the model of pativratā dharma.

Śiva, also called Mahādeva and Rudra, is the supreme Parabrahman of the Śaiva Purāṇas: source, sustainer and dissolver of all creation.

Ashṭa-Mūrti is the teaching that Bhagavān Śiva fills the world through eight bodies, each with its own name, wife, son and rules.

Śivadūtī is a śakti born from the jaṭā of Parameśvara Śiva to fight the asura Ruru; her laughter gave birth to the Mātṛkās.

Śraddhā is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma in the abhisheka words of the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Śrāvaṇī Devīs, created by Brahmā, make him hear every deed of human beings, as Bhagavān Śrī Kṛshṇa tells Yudhishṭhira in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Śrī Kṛshṇa, Svayam Bhagavān Kṛshṇa, is the son of Vasudeva and Devakī; he visits the Pāṇḍavas in the forest and guides them through the Mahābhārata.

Śrīmātā is the daughter of Brahmā and the great śakti who guards Dharmāraṇya and is the kula-devatā of its brāhmaṇas.

Subhadrā is the sister of Bhagavān Jagannātha and Balabhadra, one of the four dāru mūrtis of Purushottama Kshetra, and the sister of Kṛshṇa in the Mahābhārata.

Subhadrā is one of the five wish-fulfilling cows that arose with amṛta at the churning, called Lokamātās in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Śuddha is the third of the Eleven Rudras in the list of the thirty-three devas in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Sugrīva is the nineteenth of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Śumbha and Niśumbha were brother asuras who conquered the three worlds until Devī Ambikā slew them both.

Sunanda is a chief pārshada of Śrī Hari in Vaikuṇṭha, named with Nanda, who brought the divine vimāna to take Dhruva to the abode of Śrī Hari.

Surabhī is the divine mother of all cows, a part of Mūla Prakṛti and a form of Mahālakshmī in the world of cattle.

Surasā is the divine mother of the nāgas who tested Hanumān in mid-ocean as he flew to Laṅkā to find Sītā.

Sūrya is the deva of the Sun, born from the eyes of Nārāyaṇa, son of Kaśyapa and Aditi, father of Yama, Yamunā, Śani and the Aśvins. The Bhavishya Purāṇa praises him as the supreme deva seen with the eyes.

Susāttvika is the eleventh of the fourteen Indras in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, which glosses him as Śānta.

Suśīlā is one of the five wish-fulfilling cows that arose with amṛta at the churning, called Lokamātās in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Suśīlā was one of five gandharva kanyakās who were cursed to become piśācas at the Acchoda sarovara and were freed in the Narmadā.

Susvārā, daughter of the gandharva Svaravedi, was one of five gandharva kanyakās cursed to become piśācas and freed in the Narmadā.

Sutārā, daughter of the gandharva Candrakānta, was one of five gandharva kanyakās cursed to become piśācas and freed in the Narmadā.

Suvarcā, wife of the ṛshi Dādhīci, gave up her life on his funeral pyre and was the mother of the ṛshi Pippalāda.

Suyaśā is one of the two śaktis of Kumārasvāmi (Skanda), seen with Gajavalī at Kumāraśikhara on Mount Meru in the Kailāsa Saṃhitā.

Svadhā is the devī of the pitṛs: wife of the pitṛs and mother of Menā and Vaidhāriṇī, praised as a form of Lakshmī and of the Devī.

Svāhā Devī is the wife of Agni and the devī of the word svāhā, which is spoken at every offering into the sacred fire.

Svayamprabhā Śāṇḍilī Devī is a radiant devī who lives on Śṛṅgavān Parvata, the northernmost of the six varsha-parvatas of Jambū Dvīpa.

Śyāmalā, also called Mātaṅgī and Gīta-Yoginī, is Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī's prime minister and commander, linked to music, poetry and the arts.

Bhagavatī Tārā is one of the Mahāśaktis whose image receives separate arcanā with Bhagavatī Kālikā, in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Tārā Devī is the wife of the deva-guru Bṛhaspati, taken by force by Candra, and the mother of Budha, the deva of the planet Mercury.

Tārakāsura was an asura who won a vara that only a child of Bhagavān Śiva could kill him, conquered the three worlds, and was slain by Kārttikeya.

Tāṭakā was a yakshī of great strength who was cursed to become a rākshasī, laid waste a forest, and was slain by Rāma at Viśvāmitra's command.

Tosha is named with Pratosha in the Tushita gaṇa that the Paramātmā formed at creation, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Tri-kāla Devī is the supreme devī born from the shared gaze of Brahmā, Bhagavān Vishṇu and Bhagavān Śiva, in whom creation, upkeep and dissolution are one power.

Tribhuvaneśvarī, Sovereign of the Three Worlds, is the supreme form of the Parādevī in the Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa, from whom the Trimūrti are born.

The Trimūrti are Brahmā, Vishṇu and Rudra, the three forms in which the one Parameśvara creates, sustains and withdraws the world.

Tripurā-Bhairavī is the Devī seated on the preta-lotus seat, worshipped with the eight Bhairavas, the mātṛkās, the vaṭukas and the kshetrapālas.

The Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa names the bāgha, the tiger, as the form of Tripurasundarī Lakshmī.

Trispṛśā is the seventh of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Tryambaka is one of the Eleven Rudras, named fourth in their list in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Tulasī Devī is the most beloved consort of Bhagavān Vishṇu and the foremost of plants, born as Dharmadhvaja's daughter after a past life as a gopikā in Goloka.

The Tushita gaṇa, with Tosha, Pratosha and others, was formed by the Paramātmā at creation, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Tushṭi is one of the mothers named as wives of Dharma, who are asked to consecrate the yajamāna in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Tvaritā is a swift form of Devī Śakti whose full upāsanā is taught by Agni-deva in the Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 309 to 312 and 314.

Udvaha is one of the seven Maruts who move in the antariksha, named third in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Unmīlanī is the fifth of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Upakāla, with Kāla, was appointed to the ratha of Bhagavān Sūrya by the Aśvinī Kumāras, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Upāśruti, also called Niśā-devī, is the devī of the night who guided Śacī to Indra at Lake Mānasa in the Mahābhārata's Udyoga Parva.

Uttarā Diś is the presiding devatā of the northern direction who tested the steadfastness of the ṛshi Ashṭāvakra in the Mahābhārata's Anuśāsana Parva.

Vaidyuta is one of the three Sūryāgnis, with Śuci and Pāvaka, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vairāja was given the guarding of the directions on the ratha of Bhagavān Sūrya by the Viśvedevas, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vaishṇavī is the twenty-armed Śakti born from the rajas of Bhagavān Vishṇu, who slew the asura Mahishāsura on Mount Śataśṛṅga.

Vajrāṅga, the diamond-limbed son of Diti and Kaśyapa, captured Indra and freed him, chose tapas, and sought the son Tāraka for his wife.

Vāmadeva stands to the east of Bhagavān Satyeśa, one of the Brahmapañcaka, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vāmana is one of the ten Viśvedevas named by Sumantu Muni in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa. He is not the avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu.

Vāmana is the dwarf avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, who asked King Bali for three paces of land and then grew to measure all the worlds.

Vanapāla receives pūjā in the pratishṭhā of the bilva tree, in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vañjulī is the sixth of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa, in the Aparādhaśataśamana Vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vara is the second of the Eleven Rudras in the Bhuvana Kośa of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Varāha is the boar avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, who lifts Bhūdevī, the earth, from the cosmic ocean on his tusk and slays Hiraṇyāksha.

Vārāhī is named first among the Mahāśaktis whose pratishṭhā the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa gives.

Varāṅgī, created by Brahmā as the wife of Vajrāṅga, bore Indra's torments in silence and asked for the son who became Tārakāsura.

Vardhanī was an apsarā sent by Indra to disturb the tapas of Dharma at Dharmāraṇya, and Dharma gave her a tīrtha that bears her name.

Varuṇa is the deva of the waters and guardian of ṛta, the cosmic order, and lord of the western direction.

The twenty-six Varuṇa Devas are named in Agni's words to Anila in the Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vāruṇī is the fifth of the ten Āśā Devīs worshipped in the Āśā Daśamī vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vāruṇī is the wife of Varuṇa Deva, worshipped with him at a tank in the Pālī Vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vasanta is spring in the form of a deva, the constant companion of Kāmadeva, who comforted Ratī after Kāmadeva was burned by Bhagavān Śiva.

The Vaśavartis are a group of devas to come, named by Sumantu Muni in the Bhuvana Kośa of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vāstu-purusha, the great being buried in the earth by the devatās, who lies on the vāstu-maṇḍala and is worshipped before any building. The Bhavishya Purāṇa gives his dhyāna and his homa.

Vasu is the third of the ten Viśvedevas in the Bhuvana Kośa of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vāyavyā is the sixth of the ten Āśā Devīs worshipped in the Āśā Daśamī vrata of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vāyu, also called Pavana, is the deva of the wind, who spoke to King Kārtavīrya Arjuna in the Anuśāsana Parva and taught the dharma of the rainy months.

Vedavatī was a tapasvinī who prayed for Bhagavān Vishṇu as her husband, cursed Rāvaṇa, and was reborn as Sītā.

Veṅkaṭeśvara, also called Śrīnivāsa, is Bhagavān Vishṇu who lives on Veṅkaṭācala and married Padmāvatī.

Vibhu is the third of the fourteen Indras named in the Bhuvana Kośa of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vibudhādhipa is number 40 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vidārī is placed outside the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the south-east corner in the rite of the Madhyama Parva.

The Vidyeśvaras are the eight rulers who attend Bhagavān Śiva in the Śaiva dīkshā, abhisheka and pratishṭhā rites of the Agni Purāṇa.

Vidyuti is the second of the fourteen Indras named in the Brahma Parva, who comes after Vishṇubhuk and before Vibhu.

Vijayā is the close sakhī of Pārvatī who spoke for her when Śiva came in disguise to test her tapas.

Vijayā is the second of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa in the Aparādhaśataśamana Vrata.

Vimalā Devī is the chief śakti of Purushottama Kshetra, enshrined inside the Jagannātha temple on Nīlācala.

Vimala is the attendant Garutmān appointed to go ahead on the ratha of Bhagavān Sūrya; he strikes with claws and beak.

Vimalā is the first of the śaktis honoured with Bhagavān Vishṇu in the rite of consecrating a garden.

The Vināyakas are named among those who receive the bali before a tree is felled and those prayed to in the Āśā Daśamī vrata.

Vindhya is the great mountain of central India. His pārthiva liṅga tapas on the Narmadā led to Oṃkāreśvara Jyotirliṅga.

Vindhyāvalī was the wife of the daitya king Bali. She stood by him at the Vāmana yajña and followed him to Sutala.

The name Vīrabāhu is given to Kārttikeya's chief attendant and, in another account, to a king of Kāmpilya devoted to Bhagavān Vishṇu.

Vīrabhadra is the chief of Bhagavān Śiva's gaṇas, who came forth from Śiva himself and went against Daksha's yajña after Satī gave up her body.

Vīramitra, of great strength and saluted by all the lokas, dwells on the north-west śṛṅga of Meru.

The Virāṭ-purusha, born of the strī formed from half of Brahmā's body, performed tapas and created the ṛshis and all races.

Virūpāksha, of great strength, dwells on the south-west śṛṅga of Meru.

Vīryavān is the tenth of the twelve Sādhyas, devas named in the Brahma Parva.

Vishvaksena is the pārshada of Bhagavān Vishṇu who receives his nirmālya and is worshipped in the north-east at the close of Vishṇu pūjā.

Vishṇu, also called Nārāyaṇa, pervades the three worlds, as taught in the Bhāgavata, Varāha, Vāmana, Mārkaṇḍeya, Agni and other Purāṇas.

Vishṇu-Nārāyaṇa, also called Vāsudeva, is the Supreme Brahman of the Vishṇu Purāṇa, from whom all arises, in whom all rests and into whom all returns.

Vishṇubhuk is the first of the fourteen Indras named in the Brahma Parva, who is followed by Vidyuti.

Viśvabhu is pleased by the gift of salt on Māgha Tṛtīyā, as the Tṛtīyā Kalpa of the Brahma Parva teaches.

Viśvakarmā is the divine architect of the devas, maker of their vimānas, ornaments and weapons, and the master of all artisans.

The Viśvarūpa of Bhagavān Sūrya, in whose limbs all the devas, worlds and beings abide, as Nārada tells Sāmba in the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

The Viśvedevas are the ten sons of Dharma and Viśvā, a class of devas who receive the offerings of the śrāddha rite.

Vitatha is number 11 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vitteśa is the eleventh of the twelve Sādhyas, devas who partake of yajña, named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vivaha is the fifth of the seven Maruts who move in the antariksha on separate paths, in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vivardhanā is the eighth of the eight śaktis of Bhagavān Satyeśa in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vṛka is the agni that comes from Hari in the second account of creation in the Brahma Parva; from it come the devatās.

Vṛsha is number 7 of the forty-five devatās of the Vāstu-maṇḍala in the Madhyama Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Vṛshākapi is the sixth of the Eleven Rudras in the list Sumantu gives to Śatānīka in the Brahma Parva.

Vṛttilamba is the sixth of the twelve Sādhyas, devas who partake of yajña, named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Yajña is the yajña in person, who fled Daksha's ruined yajña as a divine deer and was later taken by Bhagavān Vishṇu to Indra's city.

Yajña is the avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu born to Ruci and Ākūti, who married Dakshiṇā and was Indra of the Svāyambhuva manvantara.

The Yakshiṇī Devī, tender to her mantra, left Yakshaśarmā when he was seized by kushṭha and went to Śivaloka.

Yama Dharmarāja, son of Sūrya and Saṃjñā, is the ruler of the dead and the fair keeper of the results of karma.

Yama Dharmarāja judges the departed, and his scribe Citragupta keeps the record of every act of every jīva.

Yāmyā is the third of the ten Āśā Devīs, the direction-devīs worshipped in the courtyard of the house for the fulfilment of wishes.

Yogamāyā is the divine Śakti of Bhagavān Vishṇu, who arranged the birth of Kṛshṇa and was born as Yaśodā's daughter.

The Ṛbhus are a gaṇa of devas who won Candraloka and a share of soma by tapas, and who rose from Bhṛgu's homa at Daksha's yajña.

Ṛddhi and Siddhi were brought forth by Devī Pārvatī through her tapas-siddhi to serve the barāt at her vivāha with Bhagavān Śaṅkara.

Ṛtu is named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa as father of the five Vatsaras and the Pitṛs, and as one who dwells in Tapoloka.