Hiranyaksha
Hindu · deity · satya yuga · deity
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: Hiranyakashipu
- slain by: Varaha
- abducted: Prithvi
Sources
- Reference treatments of Hiranyaksha and of the Varaha avatar.