page_title: List of Hindu deities
section_title: G
hierarchical_section_title: List of Hindu deities / List in alphabetical order / G
caption_attribution_description: English: Ganga, goddess of the river Ganges, riding on an alligator. Digitized Kalighat painting from 19th century Calcutta, created as inexpensive souvenirs for Hindu pilgrims visiting the famous temple of Kali; The paintings are bound in a single volume, which includes eight hand-coloured woodcut prints (ff. 29-36). They were acquired by Sir Monier Monier-Williams for the Indian Institute Library and Museum at Oxford as a result of his third fund-raising trip to India in the winter of 1883-1884. During this trip, he secured the help of various regional authorities in obtaining local art and craft work and sending them to Oxford. The Kalighat paintings and prints are listed in Babu T.N. Mukherji's "List of Articles collected for the Oxford Institute under the instruction of T.W. Holderness Esq. and Dr. George Watt," Calcutta, 1884, which is bound in the "Original Lists" MS volume held in the Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum. Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 21 [Arch. O. a. 7]
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: Ganesha (see also Ashtavinayaka)
  Ganga in Hinduism
  Garuda
  Gangothri
  Gomatha
  Gayatri
  Ghanshyam
  Guardians of the directions
  Gusainji
  Gajanan Maharaj of Shegaon, one of the avatars of Lord Dattatreya
caption: Ganga
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