Undocumented in supplied sources. A Wikidata entry (Source 2) lists Ṣaṣṭhī as a "Hindu folk goddess," but none of the provided materials (Sources 1–4) contain an origin myth, cosmological account, or narrative for a goddess named Ṣaṣṭhī. The other supplied items include homonymous uses of the term (see below) but do not supply an origin story for a divine figure.
Undocumented in supplied sources. No physical description, iconography, or depiction of a goddess named Ṣaṣṭhī appears in the provided documents. Source 1 (Wikipedia entry for Sasthi Brata) is about an individual with a similar Romanized name and is not a description of a deity; Sources 3–4 use the lexical form in unrelated contexts (a plant folk-name and a calendrical day-name), and do not describe an anthropomorphic or symbolic appearance for a goddess.
Undocumented in supplied sources. The only explicit statement identifying Ṣaṣṭhī as a divine figure appears in Wikidata (Source 2) as the label "Hindu folk goddess." No supplied source details powers, functions, benefactions, harms, or behaviors associated with her.
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*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
Abhimanyu
Abhimanyu is a youthful Kuru/Pandava warrior-hero in the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata. Son of Arjuna and Subhadra, he is famed for entering the Chakravyuha battle formation on the thirteenth day of the Kurukshetra War and dying at age sixteen; his posthumous son Parikshit continues the Kuru line.
Achyuta
Achyuta (Sanskrit: अच्युत, acyuta) is primarily an epithet/theonym in Vaishnava Hindu tradition applied to Vishnu and Krishna, signifying the divine quality of being 'not fallen' — immutable, infallible, and imperishable. It functions as a devotional name in scripture, liturgy, and Pancharatra lists of divine emanations rather than as an autonomous folkloric spirit.
Acintya
Acintya is an Indonesian Hindu theological-symbolic representation of the ineffable supreme divine principle. In Balinese and Javanese practice it functions as a way to make ultimate reality present in ritual and art—often aniconically as an empty throne (padmasana) or anthropomorphically as a naked, flame-surrounded figure—rather than as a narrative, intervening deity.
Adi (asura)
Adi is attested in modern reference works as the name of an Asura who 'appears in the Matsya Purāṇa.' Beyond this single-line citation in secondary sources, no descriptive material about the figure is provided in the supplied research notes.
Adi Shakti
Adi Shakti (also Adi Parashakti, Mahadevi, Adya Shakti) is the primordial feminine power in Hindu/Shakta theology, regarded as the ultimate reality (Para Brahman) and the source from which all goddesses and gods manifest. She is both an impersonal cosmic principle (Mulaprakriti) and a focus of devotional invocation in temples, mantras, and pilgrimage sites such as Shakti Peethas.
Adi Vinayaka
Adi Vinayaka (Ādi Vināyaka; also called Nara Mukha Vinayaka) is a named iconographic and devotional form of the Hindu god Ganesha portraying the deity with a human head, described in sources as the form before the episode of decapitation by Shiva. It is rarely worshipped and appears in a small number of South Indian shrines and in devotional/musical repertoires.
Aditi
Aditi is a major Vedic goddess in Hindu tradition who personifies the boundless, infinite cosmic principle and functions as the maternal matrix from which many celestial deities (the Ādityas and other groups) are born. In the Vedic hymns she is invoked as a protective liberator who guards petitioners, provides wealth and safety, and frees devotees from hindrances such as sin and sickness.
Agastya
Agastya (also Agathiyar/Agasti) is a revered Vedic and later-period Indian rishi (sage) figure credited in textual traditions as an inspired seer, ascetic, teacher, culture-founder, and attributed author of Vedic, Puranic and Tamil works; in South Indian tradition he is associated with origins of Tamil grammar and Siddha medicine and is identified astronomically with the star Canopus.
Aghasura
Aghasura is an asura from the Vaishnava/Hindu narrative tradition (notably the Srimad‑Bhāgavatam) who, at the command of Kamsa, assumed the form of a vast serpent to ambush Kṛṣṇa and the cowherd boys in Vṛndāvana. The episode demonstrates Kṛṣṇa’s protective, divine power as he enters and destroys the demon from within.
Agiya Baital
The fire-form of the Vetala — a cremation ground spirit of UP and Bihar that manifests as a wandering flame rather than a corpse-inhabitor, leading night travellers off roads and into marshland or flames with a dancing fire that seems always just ahead.
Agneya / Āgneyī
Āgneyī (feminine) or Āgneya (masculine adjective) is a Vedic–Puranic divine figure and ritual principle tied to the fire-god Agni and the southeastern direction. In textual traditions she appears both as a personified daughter/shakti of Agni and as an adjectival/technical term applied to fire-consecrated things (direction, astra, etc.). She also occurs as the name Agneya (or Anala) among items revealed in a Shaiva-Agamic list associated with the Aghora face of Sadashiva.
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- [1]Sasthi Brata (Wikipedia page - contains name homonym but not goddess description). Wikipedia, 'Sasthi Brata' (page examined; does not describe the goddess Ṣaṣṭhī; contains a personal-name homonym).wiki
- [2]Wikidata entry Q534133 (label: 'Hindu folk goddess'). Wikidata Q534133 lists Ṣaṣṭhī with the label 'Hindu folk goddess' (this is the sole explicit identification of Ṣaṣṭhī as a deity in the supplied corpus).wiki
- [3]Plants used as fence in India. Part-554 © Pankaj Oudhia (archive item listing 'Sasthi Booti'). Archive item lists a plant name 'Sasthi Booti' among vernacular plant names; this is a botanical/folk-vernacular usage of the form 'Sasthi' and not a ritual text about a goddess.other
- [4]Sri Raman Bihari Das Babaji kirtan 16-03-2016 Chhattisgarh Ashram (archive item referring to 'Sukla Sasthi'). Archive kirtan text refers to calendrical term 'Sukla Sasthi' (the sixth day of the bright half of the lunar month) in the context of Gaura-lila/Holi celebration; this shows the term 'Saṣṭhī/Sasthi' used as a calendrical day-name but does not describe a goddess named Ṣaṣṭhī.other