Hiranyaksha
Hindu · deity · satya yuga · Recorded classification
Two brothers, two avatars, two killings, and the corpus held both avatars and neither brother. Put beside Vritra and Mahishasura, that is four gods in this tradition whose defining act had no object in the registry.
Parentage
Domains
- asuric kingship
Relations
- sibling: HiranyakashipuReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the two as brothers, sons of Kashyapa and Diti. (secondary)
- slain by: VarahaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Varaha record — an avatar that, like Narasimha, exists for one killing that the corpus did not hold the object of.Reference treatment: Hiranyaksha was killed by Vishnu in the form of Varaha, when he abducted Bhoodevi and took her into the ocean. (secondary)
- abducted: PrithviBhudevi, the earth goddess, is in the corpus as `hindu_prithvi`, which the sweep confirmed by matching 'Bhudevi' to that record. The edge is non-symmetric, so nothing is written onto it.Reference treatment: he abducted Bhoodevi and took her into the ocean, plunging the three worlds into chaos. (secondary)
Sources
- Hiranyaksha is the asura brother of Hiranyakashipu who abducts the earth into the ocean and is killed by Vishnu as Varaha.: Reference treatments of Hiranyaksha and of the Varaha avatar. (secondary)