Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Below is a non-exhaustive list of Yakshas, a race of anthropomorphic spirits in Indian mythology. While many are malevolent, some are benevolent protectors of Dharma . Yakshas are male while Yakshis or Yakshinis are female.
The Bhutesvara Yakshis, Mathura, 2nd century CE.. Yakshinis or Yakshis (Sanskrit: यक्षिणी, IAST: Yakṣinī or Yakṣī, Pali: Yakkhiṇī or Yakkhī) are a class of female nature spirits in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious mythologies that are different from Devas and Asuras and Gandharvas or Apsaras.
The Yakshas (Sanskrit: यक्ष, IAST: Yakṣa, Pali: Yakkha) are a broad class of nature spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness.
Yakshi (sculpture) Yakshini This page was last edited on 27 October 2024, at 22:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology; Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki, leszonky). Meliae, the nymphs of the Fraxinus (Ash tree) in Greek mythology
Because all the treasures of the north stretch in a line towards the east and the west, therefor the north is sometimes called the central region. Hither, is the asylum, known by the name of Vadari Badrinath. It was here, on the breast of Kailasa, that Kubera, was installed on the sovereignty of the Rakshasas, the Yakshas, and the Gandharvas ...
Yakshi [broken anchor] – Vampire; Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) – Female nature spirit; Yakubyō-gami – Disease and misfortune spirit; Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) – Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns; Yali – Lion like creature often symbolic for protecting temples
Kubera is recognized outside India and Hinduism as well. Kubera is a popular figure in Buddhist as well as Jain mythology. [5] The Orientalist Nagendra Kumar Singh remarked that, "Every Indian religion has a Kubera after the Hindu prototype". [25]