List of Hindu Deities: Media
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A collection of ornamental figures of various Hindu deities decorating a temple wall.
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The trimurti (“Three Forms”) of Hindu gods: (from left) Vishnu (preserver), Shiva...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Ramesh and Urmil Kapoor (M.86.337), www.lacma.org
Vishnu as Shri Sheshanarayana, resting on the celestial snake Shesha attended by...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Robert and Bobbie Falk Philanthropic Fund Gift, 2021 (2021.216), www.metmuseum.org
Illustration of the god Vishnu with weapons and the snake Shesha.
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The goddess Lakshmi attended by two elephants, a form called gajalakshmi,...
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Vishnu with his 10 avatars (incarnations): Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana,...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Hindu god Krishna and his beloved gopi Radha walking in a flowering grove; ink,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2003 (2003.178a, b); www.metmuseum.org
Rama on Horseback, folio from a Ramayana (Adventures of Rama),...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter (M.81.280.5), www.lacma.org
“Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs,” ink and opaque watercolor...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Edward M. Bratter, 1957 (57.70.6), www.metmuseum.org
A statue of the Hindu deity Venkateswara holding out his right hand in the varadamudra,...
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Vishnu accompanied by his wives riding on Garuda, who carries a cobra, chromolithograph...
Wellcome Collection, London (26668i)
Devotees observing Vishnu resting on Shesha at the Budhanilkantha Temple, Kathmandu,...
© Charles Preston
Shiva and his family at the burning ground, opaque watercolour and gold on paper,...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph A.C. Cooper
A lingam of Shiva depicting the story of his appearance as an endless pillar of fire,...
© Charles Preston
A large statue of Shiva, outside the Shivoham Shiva Temple, Bengaluru, Karnataka,...
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Statue of the goddess Parvati. Copper alloy, Chola period, c. early 10th century,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956 (57.51.3); www.metmuseum.org
Statues of the divine couple Shiva and Parvati, joined by their elephant-headed son,...
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Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja), bronze, from southern India, Chola...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Fund (1965.1130), www.artic.edu
A Nepali devotee performing rituals at the Kala Bhairava temple in Basantapur Durbar...
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Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu god of prosperity and wisdom, figure on external...
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The Hindu god of war Skanda as Shanmukha (“Six Faces”) riding on a peacock and surrounded...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021 (2021.222)
Statue of the Hind god Murugan at Batu Caves, north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Sculpture of Nandi at Chamundi Hill, Mysuru (Mysore), Karnataka, India.
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Shiva Carrying the Dead Sati, watercolor on paper from Calcutta (now Kolkata),...
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Stella Kramrisch Collection, 1994 (1994-148-559)
The composite male-female image of Shiva-Parvati known as Ardhanarishvara, granite...
Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Alsdorf Foundation (2002.631), www.artic.edu.
Ardhanarishvara statue, Brihadisvara Temple, Gangaikondacholapuram, Tamil Nadu, India....
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The Hindu goddess Durga riding a tiger with other forms of Durga visible in the background.
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Hindu goddess Durga depicted in the act of slaying the demon, Mahishasura, in a display...
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Kali Trampling Upon Shiva, 1854–55, by an unknown Indian artist, watercolor...
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gift of Rhodes Robertson (64.65.11), www.collections.artsmia.org
A murti of goddess Saraswati nearly ready for Saraswati Puja during the...
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Rig Veda verse 3.62.10, a hymn to the Sun called the Gayatri mantra, is personified...
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The Churning of the Ocean of Milk, depicting demons (asuras) on...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Haas, 1977 (1977.443.2), www.metmuseum.org
Vedic fire deity Agni with a ram, wood carving; in the Guimet Museum, Paris.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Yogic deity Ayyappan, painted on the wall of a temple in Shrirangapattana, Karnataka,...
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Detail of the Hindu god Brahma on his hamsa (goose or swan) after hiding...
Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Meyer (1965.335), www.clevelandart.org.
Combining the three Hindu gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the yogic deity Dattatreya...
Ravi Varma/Wellcome Collection
A sadhu offering morning prayers along the Ganges River, Varanasi, India.
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Shiva and Vishnu as the combined deity Harihara; chloritic schist sculpture from...
Photograph by L. Mandle. Honolulu Academy of Arts, gift of The Christensen Fund, 2001 (10779.1)
Vedic king of the gods Indra riding his elephant, Airavata; painting from the 18th...
Pramod Chandra
Madan-Bhasma (“Kama [Madana] Turned to Ash”; listed as “Madan-Bhasma (Shiva...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 2013 (2013.1); www.metmuseum.org
A Jain sculpture of Kubera from Varuna, Karnataka, India, c. 1050; in the Los Angeles...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase (M.69.13.8), www.lacma.org
Statues of the navagrahas (“nine planets”) at a temple in Andhra Pradesh,...
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Vedic-era sky and water deity Varuna riding on a makara (crocodile), opaque...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Felix and Helen Juda Foundation (M.72.4.2), www.lacma.org
The Hindu gods of death Yama and Yami as pictured in Tibetan artwork, mineral pigments...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zimmerman (M.71.78), www.lacma.org