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Parjanya (Sanskrit: पर्जन्य, IAST: parjánya) according to the Vedas is a deity of rain, thunder, lightning, and the one who fertilizes the earth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is another epithet of Indra , the Vedic deity of the sky and heaven.
Also invoked are Savitr, Vishnu, Rudra, Pushan, Brihaspati or Brahmanaspati, as well as deified natural phenomena such as Dyaus Pita (the shining sky, Father Heaven), Prithivi (the earth, Mother Earth), Surya (the sun god), Vayu or Vata (the wind), Apas (the waters), Parjanya (the thunder and rain), Vac (the word), many rivers (notably the ...
Parjanya [1] [2] (Sanskrit: पार्जन्य, IAST: Pārjánya) also known as Parjanya Maharaja [3] or Parjanya [4] is one of the son of Yadava king Devamida [5] and the brother of Shurasena. He was also paternal grandfather of Krishna [ 1 ] and father of the Nanda .
Dyauṣ's other sons include Agni, Parjanya, the Ādityas, the Maruts, and the Angirases. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] The Ashvins are called " divó nápāt ", meaning offspring/progeny/grandsons of Dyauṣ. [ 7 ] [ 10 ] Dyauṣ is often visualized as a roaring animal, often a bull, who fertilizes the earth. [ 7 ]
Bengali mythology in a literal sense has been a derivative of Vedic mythology. It can refer to the historical legends and folk tales of West Bengal and Bangladesh . Given the historical Hindu and Buddhist presence in the region, characters from Vedic and Hindu mythology are present within Bengali literature.
Mangal-Kāvya (Bengali: মঙ্গলকাব্য; lit. "Poems of Benediction") is a group of Bengali religious texts, composed more or less between 13th and 18th centuries, notably consisting of narratives of indigenous deities of rural Bengal in the social scenario of the Middle Ages.
Theories have been proposed that Fjörgyn (Proto-Germanic: *fergunja) may represent an extension of an earlier Proto-Indo-European thunder or rain god *Perk w unos due to Indo-European linguistic connections between Norse Fjörgyn, the Lithuanian god Perkūnas, the Slavic god Perun and, perhaps, the Vedic rain god Parjanya. [7]
Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...