page_title: List of Hindu deities
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hierarchical_section_title: List of Hindu deities / List in alphabetical order / D
caption_attribution_description: English: "Painting on paper depicting Virabhadra. The red-hued deity is coiffed exactly like Śiva. This is an unusual rendering of Virabhadra. The face of the Ganga peeps out of the dreadlocks, while loose jatas fly around his head. On his forehead is a prominent tripundra. Side fangs protrude from his mouth and a bushy moustache grows on his upper lip. In his upper right hand is a damaru, in his upper left hand a flame, the lower right hand carries a sword and the lower left a buckler. The attributes in his upper hands are unusual, as they generally bear the bow and the arrow. He is dressed in a dhoti adorned by sashes on the sides and an angavastra is draped on his elbows. Among his ornaments is a long white garland. On his feet are toe-knob sandals. At his left stands the ram-headed Daksha, sporting tripundra marks on his forehead and arms dressed in dhoti and with the angavastra tied around his hips."
context_page_description: Hinduism is the biggest religion of the Indian subcontinent and third biggest religion of the world. It comprises five major traditions, Vaishnavism, Brahmanism, Saurism, Shaktism, Shaivism, whose followers consider Vishnu, Brahma, Surya, Shakti and Shiva to be the Supreme deity respectively. Most of the other deities were either related to them or different forms of these deities. Hinduism has been called the "oldest religion" in the world, and many practitioners refer to Hinduism as "the eternal law". Given below is a list of the chief Hindu deities followed by a list of Hindu deities.
  Smartism, an older tradition and later reestablished by Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya, invites the worship of more than one god including Shiva like that, Vishnu, Brahma, Shakti and
  Ganesha among other gods and goddesses. It is not as overtly sectarian as either Vashnavism,
  Brahmanism or Saivism and is based on the recognition that Brahman is the highest principle in the universe and pervades all of existence.
context_section_description: Dasha Maa
  Daksha
  Dakshayani
  Danu
  Dattatreya, the holy eternal Trinity, single-bodied incarnation of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh all together. The stated One God in Hinduism.
  Deva
  Devi
  Devnarayan
  Dhanvantari, the god of medicine and Ayurveda.(The doctor of Gods.)
  Dhara
  Dharma
  Dharma Shasta
  Dhatri
  Dhumavati
  Diti
  Durga
  Draupadi
  Dyaus Pita
  Dhrishtadyumna
caption: Ram-faced Daksha (right) with Virabhadra form of Shiva
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