Wisnu (Javanese Kanda)
Javanese · deity · perennial in wayang · Recorded classification
Dark-coloured deity produced by Guru, lover and husband of Sri. He descends as Arjuna Wijaya and Rama in Raffles’s synopsis.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
No parents recorded in the default.
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Manek Maya: motherless generationGuru receives nine sons and five daughters without a mother. This account is supernatural generation, not a biological parental pair or the separate Kanda genealogy.
deity by descent in this account.
- parent: Batara Guru (Javanese)Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java (1830), vol.II Appendix H, chapters I–III, pp.cxii–cxix: Manek Maya (secondary)
Children in alternative accounts
- Sri Gati: Kanda synopsis: named parentageThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
Variant accounts
- Manifestation accountThe Kanda synopsis describes creation by Guru rather than birth to a biological parental pair.Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
Relations
- father of: Sri GatiThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
- spouse: Sri (Javanese Kanda)Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
- created by: Batara Guru (Javanese)Leaf transformation or purification in the Kanda; not biological descent.Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
- manifested from: Batara Guru (Javanese)Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java (1830), vol.II Appendix H, chapters I–III, pp.cxii–cxix: Manek Maya (secondary)
- slayer of: Watu GunungThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
- incarnation: Arjuna WijayaThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java (1830), vol.I pp.428–429: incarnations and pedigree (secondary)
- incarnation: Rama (Javanese Kanda)Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java (1830), vol.I pp.428–429: incarnations and pedigree (secondary)
Sources
- Dark-coloured deity produced by Guru, lover and husband of Sri. He descends as Arjuna Wijaya and Rama in Raffles’s synopsis.: Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)