Prithu

Bhumi – Goddess of the Earth

Bhumi is the Hindu goddess of the earth and is also known as Bhudevi, Dharani, and Vasundhara. She is often depicted as a beautiful woman seated on a lotus, and her vehicle is an owl. She is regarded to be a form of the Goddess Lakshmi. Bhumi features prominently in the Mahabharata and various Puranas. […]

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The Prachetas

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The Prachetas This painting illustrates the Hindu tale of the ten Prachetas brothers, the great grandsons of Prithu, the primordial being. They spent ten thousand years in the great ocean meditating on Vishnu, the ultimate deity, and were consequently granted the gift of becoming the progenitors of mankind. Without rule, however, forests (chaos) had overgrown

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