Kuvera

The demigod who looks after the vast treasures of heaven.

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Kuvera:

Kuvera: the treasurer of the demigods.

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Kuvera (Sanskrit). God of the Hades, and of wealth like Pluto. The king of the evil demons in the Hindu Pantheon.

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Yaksha (Sanskrit, also Yaksa; Pāli: Yakkha, Chinese and Japanese: 夜叉, Pin Yin ye4 cha1, J. yasha) originally from Hindu mythology, a class of nature ghosts or demons. Also: demigod attendants of Kuvera Also: twelve heavenly generals who guard the Buddha of Medicine (Sanskrit: Bhaisajya; Tibetan: sangs-rgyas sman-bla; Chinese and Japanese: 藥師如來) The yakshas were originally the tutelary gods of forests and villages. Later, however, they came to be viewed as the steward deities of the earth and the wealth burie ...

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Kubera (also Kuvera or Kuber) is the god of wealth and the lord of Uttaradisha in Hindu mythology. He is also known as Dhanapati, the lord of riches. He is one of the Ashta-Dikpalas, representing the north. Kubera is also the son of Sage Vishrava (hence also called Vaisravana), and in this respect, he is also the elder brother of the Lord of Lanka, Ravana. He is said to have performed austerities for a thousand years, in reward for which Brahma, the Creator, gave him immortality and made him god of wealth, guardian of all the treasures of the earth, which h ...

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After winning his boons, Ravana is sought out by the leaders of the rakshasas, who desire him to lead their race to power. Ravana - Conquest of Lanka. Lanka originally belonged to Ravana's half-brother Kuvera, the Lord of the Treasures of Swarga. Ravana and his rakshasa allies demand Lanka from him, and Ravana and Kuvera's father Visrawas advises Kuvera to give it up as Ravana cannot be killed by any celestial. Ravana is thus made king of Lanka. See also:

Ravana, Ravana - Birth and Early Life, Ravana - Tapasya, Ravana - Emperor of the World, and Evil, Ravana - Conquest of Lanka, Ravana - Emperor of the Three Worlds, Ravana - Violations of Women, Ravana - Downfall, Ravana - Assessment, Ravana - In Scriptures, Ravana - In Ayya Vazhi, Ravana - Ravana's family

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After winning his boons, Ravana is sought out by the leaders of the rakshasas, who desire him to lead their race to power. Ravana - Conquest of Lanka. Lanka originally belonged to Ravana's half-brother Kuvera, the Lord of the Treasures of Swarga. Ravana and his rakshasa allies demand Lanka from him, and Ravana and Kuvera's father Visrawas advises Kuvera to give it up as Ravana cannot be killed by any celestial. Ravana is thus made king of Lanka.

Ravana, Ravana - Birth and Early Life, Ravana - Tapasya, Ravana - Emperor of the World and Evil, Ravana - Conquest of Lanka, Ravana - Emperor of the Three Worlds, Ravana - Violations of Women, Ravana - Downfall, Ravana - Assessment, Ravana - In Scriptures, Ravana - In Ayya Vazhi, Ravana - Ravana's family

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Kuvera (Sanskrit) In Hindu mythology the regent of the north, also the chief of various spirits of nature whose abode is the underworld or Hades. Like the Greek Pluto-Plutus, he is said to be possessed of great wealth and to be the keeper of all the treasures on earth.

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Nidhi (Sanskrit) A treasure. Nine treasures belonging to the god Kuvera - the Vedic Satan - each treasure being under the guardianship of a demon; these are personified, and are the objects of worship of the Tantrikas.

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Sibika or Sivika (Sanskrit) The weapon of Kuvera, the Vedic god of wealth equivalent to the Greek Pluto; made out of the parts of the divine splendor of Vishnu, a sun god, and filed off by Visvakarman, the architect of the gods.

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Sibika (Sanskrit). The weapon of Kuvera, god of wealth (a Vedic deity living in Hades, hence a kind of Pluto), made out of the parts of the divine splendour of Vishnu, residing in the Sun, and filed off by Visvarkarman, the god Initiate.

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Nalakuvara and Manigriva

the sons of the treasurer of the demigods, Kuvera, who were cursed for their decadence by the great devotee-sage, Narada, and who, by his blessing, were delivered from their materialism by Lord Krishna.

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Yajneshvara

The Supreme Lord appearing as “the Lord of sacrifice.”

Yakshas

A militant class of celestial beings, obedient to the treasurer of the demigods, Kuvera. Although frequently grouped with the man-eating Rakshasas, they are also called the punya-janas (“righteous persons”).

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arjuna trees

Two trees of the arjuna species that stood in the courtyard of Nanda Maharaja until Krishna uprooted them. Formerly sons of Kuvera, they had been cursed to stand as trees until delivered by Krishna.

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Kailasa (Sanskrit) A lofty mountain in the Himalayas; in mythology Siva's paradise is placed upon Kailasa, north of Lake Manasasarovara. The god of wealth, Kuvera, also is said to have his palace there. Because of the occult history attached to Mount Kailasa, Hindu metaphysics not infrequently uses Kailasa for heaven or the abode of the gods.

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Nidhi (Sanskrit) A treasure; the nine divine treasures or jewels of Kuvera, the Vedic Satan, each under the guardianship of some demon -- or rather a spirit more of the nature of the Greek daimon.

These nine nidhis are popularly given as

• padma (lotus),
• mahapadma (great lotus),
• sankha (conch shell),
• makara (marine animal or fish),
• kachchhapa (tortoise),
• mukunda (kettle drum),
• ananda (joy),
• nila (a dark color or blue), and
• kharva (dwarf).

They are sometimes personified as attendants of Kuvera or of Lakshmi.

All these nidhis are the objects of special worship by the Tantrikas. They differ from the nava-nidhi, or nine treasuries or jewels of wisdom referring to a consummation of spiritual development in occult training, occult life, or mysticism generally. In theosophy the "seven jewels of wisdom" are seven of the nine nava-nidhi.

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Yaksha yaksa (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root yaksh to devour]

A class of ethereal, astral, or semi-astral beings, regarded as attendants of Kubera or Kuvera, the deity of riches; occasionally they are associated with Vishnu. The yakshas are variously described as the sons of Pulastya, Pulaha, Kasyapa, Khasa, or Krodha. One legend represents them as springing from the feet of Brahma, while one Puranic account shows them as springing from the body of Brahma with the rakshasas and immediately attempting to devour his body. However, frequently the yakshas are regarded as beings beneficent to humans. In Kalidasa's Meghaduta, the hero is a yaksha, represented as a banished lover who employs a cloud to bear a message to his beloved.

In later popular folklore the yakshas are associated with and classed with the pisachas, and therefore regarded with dread and made responsible for many demoniacal obsessions. "In esoteric science they are simply evil (elemental) influences, who in the sight of seers and clairvoyants descend on men, when open to the reception of such influences, like a fiery comet or a shooting star" (TG 375).

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Lanka (Sanskrit). The ancient name of the island now called Ceylon. It is also the name of a mountain in the South East of Ceylon, where, as tradition says, was a town peopled with demons named Lankapuri.

 It is described in the epic of the Ramayana as of gigantic extent and magnificence, "with seven broad moats and seven stupendous walls of stone and metal". Its foundation is attributed to Visva-Karma, who built it for Kuvera, the king of the demons, from whom it was taken by Ravana, the ravisher of Sita.

The Bhagavat Purana shows Lanka or Ceylon as primarily the summit of Mount Meru, which was broken off by Vayu, god of the wind, and hurled into the ocean. It has since become the seat of the Southern Buddhist Church, the Siamese Sect (headed at present by the High Priest Sumangala), the representation of the purest exoteric Buddhism on this side of the Himalayas.

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Libra A balance; the scales, the seventh sign of the zodiac. In astrology a masculine, airy cardinal sign, the chief house of Venus; its bodily correspondence being the loins and adjacent organs.

The three signs Virgo-Libra-Scorpio were formerly represented by one sign, Virgo-Scorpio, so that originally the zodiac exoterically consisted of ten signs; and then two secret signs were added, thus making the present zodiac of twelve signs or houses. This was done by dividing this sign into Virgo and Scorpio and placing between them the balancing sign Libra, said to have been invented by the Greeks. The Hindu zodiac also has the sign Tula (balance) in this position, presided over by Kuvera, ruler of the Underworld. As said by Subba Row, this sign prepares the way for the earthly Adam to become Nara (spiritual man).

In the system of the twelve sons of Jacob, Asher is assigned to Libra. Libra marks the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere and one of the two beginnings of the Jewish year. Libra is also equated with Enoch and Hermes (IU 2:463).

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Lokapalas (Sanskrit) (from loka world + pala protector from the verbal root pa to protect)

The spiritual supporters, rulers, and guardians either of a universe or of a world. The cosmic, solar, or planetary spirits who preside over the eight points of the compass, among them being the four Maharajas. Each of these guardian spirits has an elephant (or other symbolic animal) who takes part in the defense and protection of the quarter, and these eight elephants are themselves sometimes called lokapalas.

These elephants and their spouses pertain "to fancy and afterthought, though all of them have an occult significance" (SD 1:128). According to the Hindu pantheon, Indra presides over the east; Agni, the southeast; Yama, the south; Surya, the southwest; Varuna, the west; Vayu, the northwest; Kuvera, the north; and Soma, the northeast.

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