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Nalakuvara, also known as Nalakubara (Sanskrit: नलकूबर, romanized: Nalakūbara), appears in Hindu and Buddhist mythology as the brother of Manigriva (also known as Manibhadra), the son of the yaksha king Kubera (also known as Vaishravana), and husband of Rambha and Ratnamala.
[9] [10] [14] The Mahabharata says that Brahma conferred upon Kubera the lordship of wealth, friendship with Shiva, godhood, status as a world-protector, a son called Nalakubera/Nalakubara, the Pushpaka Vimana and the lordship of the Nairrata demons. [14] Both the Puranas and the Ramayana feature the half-blood siblings of Kubera.
The Koili baikuntha garden; the site of the Nabakalebara ritual is in the foreground. Nabakalebara also spelled as Navakalevara (Odia: ନବ କଳେବର) is the ritualistic recreation of the wooden icons of four Hindu deities (Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra, and Sudarshana) at Jagannath Temple, Puri.
Sita Rama Kalyanam (transl. The marriage of Sita and Rama) is a 1961 Indian Telugu-language Hindu mythological film directed by N. T. Rama Rao in his directorial debut. [1] ...
In Hindu astronomy, there was an older tradition of 28 Nakshatras which were used as celestial markers in the heavens. When these were mapped into equal divisions of the ecliptic, a division of 27 portions was adopted since that resulted in a clearer definition of each portion (i.e. segment) subtending 13° 20′ (as opposed to 12° 51 + 3 ⁄ 7 ′ in the case of 28 segments).
Mahākāla (Sanskrit: महाकाल, pronounced [mɐɦaːˈkaːlɐ]) is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. [1]In Buddhism, Mahākāla is regarded as a Dharmapāla ("Protector of the Dharma") and a wrathful manifestation of a Buddha, while in Hinduism, Mahākāla is a fierce manifestation of the Hindu god Shiva and the consort of the goddess Mahākālī; [1] he most prominently ...
Sculpture of Vamana, an avatar of Vishnu, who is associated with the legend of taking three strides upon the three worlds. Trailokya (Sanskrit: त्रैलोक्य; Kannada: ತ್ರೈಲೋಕ್ಯ; Pali: tiloka, Tibetan: khams gsum; Chinese: 三界; Vietnamese: Tam Giới) literally means "three worlds".
Haigakura (ハイガクラ) is a fantasy work set in China, a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Takayama. It was initially serialized in Ichijinsha's shōjo manga magazine Comic Zero Sum WARD from January 2008 to May 2015, when the magazine ceased publication, and was later transferred to the Zero-Sum Online manga website in September 2015.