According to the Ramayana tradition, Rāma is born in the city of Ayodhyā to King Daśaratha and Queen Kauśalyā of the Solar (Ikṣvāku/Raghu) dynasty. He is the eldest son and principal heir; his life narrative includes marriage to Sītā, the companionship of his brothers (including Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata, and Śatrughna), a compelled 14-year exile, the abduction of Sītā by the demon-king Rāvaṇa, and the subsequent campaign culminating in Rāvaṇa's defeat. Traditional chronology places his appearance in the Treta Yuga. In theological frames he is identified as the seventh avatar of Viṣṇu and in some Rama-centered sects regarded as the Supreme Being.
The provided sources do not give a fixed, detailed physical portrait but describe Rāma with royal lineage and celebrated qualities. He is traditionally praised for beauty and moral perfection (epithets such as Rāmacandra — 'Rāma the moon' — and other patronymics like Daśarathi or Raghava appear in the literature). Iconography and later devotional literature commonly depict him with royal attire and as an idealized warrior-king, accompanied by his consort Sītā and brother Lakṣmaṇa, though explicit physical measurements or features are not specified in the supplied excerpts.
As an incarnation (avatāra) of Viṣṇu, Rāma functions with divine authority and agency in the preservation of dharma; sources describe him as protector of dharma and the heroic agent who defeats the demon-king Rāvaṇa to rescue Sītā. He is treated theologically as an avatar with salvific and cosmological significance, and in Rama-centric traditions is sometimes worshipped as the Supreme Being. The supplied materials do not enumerate a catalogue of discrete magical powers but frame his abilities through his avatar-status, moral exemplarity, and central role in epic events.
*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
Abhimanyu
Abhimanyu is a youthful Kuru/Pandava warrior-hero in the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata. Son of Arjuna and Subhadra, he is famed for entering the Chakravyuha battle formation on the thirteenth day of the Kurukshetra War and dying at age sixteen; his posthumous son Parikshit continues the Kuru line.
Abhinandananātha
Abhinandananātha is the fourth Tīrthaṅkara (ford-maker) of the current Jain cosmic age (avasarpini). Traditional accounts place his birth in Ayodhyā to the Ikshvāku (Solar) dynasty, describe his renunciation and attainment of omniscience beneath a priyangu tree, and record his liberation on Mount Śikharjī.
Achyuta
Achyuta (Sanskrit: अच्युत, acyuta) is primarily an epithet/theonym in Vaishnava Hindu tradition applied to Vishnu and Krishna, signifying the divine quality of being 'not fallen' — immutable, infallible, and imperishable. It functions as a devotional name in scripture, liturgy, and Pancharatra lists of divine emanations rather than as an autonomous folkloric spirit.
Acintya
Acintya is an Indonesian Hindu theological-symbolic representation of the ineffable supreme divine principle. In Balinese and Javanese practice it functions as a way to make ultimate reality present in ritual and art—often aniconically as an empty throne (padmasana) or anthropomorphically as a naked, flame-surrounded figure—rather than as a narrative, intervening deity.
Adi (asura)
Adi is attested in modern reference works as the name of an Asura who 'appears in the Matsya Purāṇa.' Beyond this single-line citation in secondary sources, no descriptive material about the figure is provided in the supplied research notes.
Adi Shakti
Adi Shakti (also Adi Parashakti, Mahadevi, Adya Shakti) is the primordial feminine power in Hindu/Shakta theology, regarded as the ultimate reality (Para Brahman) and the source from which all goddesses and gods manifest. She is both an impersonal cosmic principle (Mulaprakriti) and a focus of devotional invocation in temples, mantras, and pilgrimage sites such as Shakti Peethas.
Adi Vinayaka
Adi Vinayaka (Ādi Vināyaka; also called Nara Mukha Vinayaka) is a named iconographic and devotional form of the Hindu god Ganesha portraying the deity with a human head, described in sources as the form before the episode of decapitation by Shiva. It is rarely worshipped and appears in a small number of South Indian shrines and in devotional/musical repertoires.
Aditi
Aditi is a major Vedic goddess in Hindu tradition who personifies the boundless, infinite cosmic principle and functions as the maternal matrix from which many celestial deities (the Ādityas and other groups) are born. In the Vedic hymns she is invoked as a protective liberator who guards petitioners, provides wealth and safety, and frees devotees from hindrances such as sin and sickness.
Agastya
Agastya (also Agathiyar/Agasti) is a revered Vedic and later-period Indian rishi (sage) figure credited in textual traditions as an inspired seer, ascetic, teacher, culture-founder, and attributed author of Vedic, Puranic and Tamil works; in South Indian tradition he is associated with origins of Tamil grammar and Siddha medicine and is identified astronomically with the star Canopus.
Aghasura
Aghasura is an asura from the Vaishnava/Hindu narrative tradition (notably the Srimad‑Bhāgavatam) who, at the command of Kamsa, assumed the form of a vast serpent to ambush Kṛṣṇa and the cowherd boys in Vṛndāvana. The episode demonstrates Kṛṣṇa’s protective, divine power as he enters and destroys the demon from within.
Agiya Baital
The fire-form of the Vetala — a cremation ground spirit of UP and Bihar that manifests as a wandering flame rather than a corpse-inhabitor, leading night travellers off roads and into marshland or flames with a dancing fire that seems always just ahead.
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