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Vishvakarma is considered to be the divine architect of the universe and the personification of divine creativity in the Rigveda.He is credited with the construction of the city of Dvaraka for Krishna, the palace of Indraprastha for the Pandavas, and many fabulous weapons for the gods, such as the Sudarshana Chakra of Vishnu, the trishula of Shiva, and the lance of Kartikeya.
Vishvakarma or Vishvakarman ( Sanskrit: विश्वकर्मा, lit. 'all maker', IAST: Viśvakarmā) is a craftsman deity and the divine architect of the devas in contemporary Hinduism. In the early texts, the craftsman deity was known as Tvastar and the word "Vishvakarma" was originally used as an epithet for any powerful deity.
This Cambodian temple deploys the same circles and squares grid architecture as described in Indian Vāstu Śastras. [ 1] Originating in ancient India, Vastu Shastra ( Sanskrit: वास्तु शास्त्र, vāstu śāstra – literally "science of architecture" [ 2]) is a traditional Hindu system of architecture [ 3][ 4] based on ...
t. e. Varaha ( Sanskrit: वराह, lit. 'Boar', IAST: Varāha) is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, in the form of an Indian boar. Varaha is listed as third in the Dashavatara, the ten principal avatars of Vishnu. Varaha is associated with the legend of lifting the earth (as the goddess Bhumi) out of the cosmic ocean.
Prajapati ( Sanskrit: प्रजापति, lit. 'Lord of creation', IAST: Prajāpati) is a Vedic deity of Hinduism. [ 1][ 2][ 3] In later literature, Prajapati is identified with the creator-god Brahma, but the term also connotes many different gods depending on the Hindu scriptures, ranging from being the creator god Brahma to being the ...
Arjuna bows to the Vishvarupa of Vishnu-Krishna. Vishvarupa ( Sanskrit: विश्वरूप, romanized : Viśvarūpa, lit. 'universal form'), [ 1] also spelt as Vishwaroopa and known as Virāḍrūpa, is an iconographical form and theophany of a Hindu deity, most commonly associated with Vishnu in contemporary Hinduism. Though there are ...
Purusha. The Purusha is defined in verses 2 to 5 of the Sukta. He is described as a being who pervades everything conscious and unconscious universally. He is poetically depicted as a being with thousand heads, eyes and legs, enveloping not just the earth, but the entire universe from all sides and transcending it by ten fingers length – or ...
Tilottama. Tilottama ( Sanskrit: तिलोत्तमा, romanized : Tilottamā ), is an apsara (celestial nymph) described in Hindu mythology . "Tila" is a Sanskrit word for a small particle and "uttama" means the ultimate. Tilottama, therefore, means the being whose smallest particle is the finest or one who is composed of the finest and ...