Chaturbhuja deities are typically depicted with four arms, and are often accompanied by other iconographic attributes of Hindu deities.
As a concept related to iconography, Chaturbhuja does not possess supernatural abilities. However, it is believed to have divine influence, representing the power and divinity of its associated deities.
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.
Aleya
Ghost lights of the Sundarbans delta — flickering flames over swamp water said to be the souls of dead fishermen, luring the living off safe paths into drowning waters.
Angiras
Angiras (Sanskrit Aṅgiras/Aṅgirāḥ) is primarily a Vedic rishi (sage) and eponymous lineage (Angirasa) associated with authorship of Vedic hymns, priestly/fire functions, and transmission of mantras; later Puranic accounts multiply his identities in genealogies and lists of sages.
Ap (the Waters)
Ap (Vedic áp-, Classical Sanskrit āpas/āpa-) denotes the sacred category of 'the waters' in Vedic/Hindu thought: a physical element (water), an animate cosmic principle addressed in Rigvedic hymns, and an elemental category later counted among the Panchamahabhuta. The term names collective waters invoked in ritual, is linked to deities such as Varuna and the epithet Apām Napāt, and survives in related Indo-Iranian vocabularies (Avestan āpō/Aban, Persian āb).
Apsara
Celestial dancers and water nymphs of Hindu cosmology — beautiful semi-divine beings who dance at the court of Indra and, by his command, descend to earth to distract sages from excessive asceticism.
Bhoma
Primordial earth deity in Balinese mythology associated with fertility and vegetation. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial, which is correct. 2. Appearance description matches source material; no corrections needed. 3. Abilities: Add "liminal space between wilderness and human settlement)
Bhoot (bhoota)
A bhoot (also bhoota, bhoot, bhut) is the culturally specific term across parts of the Indian subcontinent for a perturbed, restless spirit generally understood to be the ghost of a deceased person. Sources describe bhoots as arising when a person's death or post-death circumstances prevent them from moving on — for example violent death, unresolved affairs, or failures in funerary rites — and the term appears frequently in modern South Asian media and discussions.
Bidadari
Bidadari is a Southeast Asian regional term related to the South Asian apsara: a class of celestial/ethereal female beings originally associated with clouds and water in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, later represented in regional art and performance as nymph- or fairy-like figures. The term is also widely used in modern Southeast Asian toponymy and popular culture (place names, media, vessel names), distinct from detailed mythic narratives in the provided sources.
Bordoisila
The storm deity of spring in Assamese tradition — Bordoisila is the daughter of Brahma who visits her mother's home at the end of winter, and whose journey back creates the violent pre-monsoon storms of April and May. She is a goddess-spirit propitiated in Assam for thousands of years.
Brahmadaitya
Bengal's most distinctive ghost: the spirit of a Brahmin who died celibate — before marriage, or having taken a vow of celibacy — whose accumulated learning and unfulfilled life persists. Unlike the North Indian Brahmpret, the Brahmadaitya is often passive or even helpful, but its presence makes any household it inhabits spiritually unsettled.
Brahmarakshas
The most learned and terrible of spirits — the ghost of a Brahmin who misused his scriptural knowledge in life and was condemned after death to be both demon and scholar, haunting places of learning.
Brahmarakshasa
Demon-spirit of a Brahmin who misused sacred knowledge for evil ends — described in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Brahmarakshasa combines the destructive force of a Rakshasa with the ritual knowledge of a priest. Among the most dangerous entities in Hindu demonology.
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