Everyone and everything
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Place 78
God 54
Mortal 48
Text 34
Form 29
Sage 27
King 24
Asura 24
Festival 21
Concept 14
Consort 12
Avatar 11
Object 7
Vahana / animal 6
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Concept · All traditions
Manasaputras, the mind-born sons of Brahma
The children Brahma produced from his mind rather than by birth. Lists differ by text but include Narada, Daksha…
Concept · All traditions · Mohenjo-daro (Sindh)
The Indus 'Pashupati' seal
Mohenjo-daro seal 420
A steatite seal found by Ernest Mackay at Mohenjo-daro in 1928–29, dated about 2350–2000 BCE, showing a horned seated…
Concept · All traditions
Brahmahatya
The sin of killing a brahmin, personified in the beheading story as the force that clings to Shiva or Bhairava…
Concept · All traditions · Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra, Gujarat; also Himalayan regions
Dattatreya as the three gods in one
The one widely worshipped image in which Brahma is a full third of the god: Dattatreya, son of the sage Atri and…
Concept · All traditions
Purusha (the cosmic person)
Purusha Sukta
The thousand-headed being of Rigveda 10.90 whose sacrifice by the gods yields the social orders, the Vedas, the moon…
Concept · All traditions
Trimurti
Trinity · Trimurthi
The idea that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (Rudra) are three faces of one divine reality, charged with creation…