Airavati

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Airavati is the mythological white elephant mount of the Hindu god Indra, revered as a powerful and auspicious celestial creature.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Airavata 4
Airavati canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindu mythological figure
celestial creature
mythological elephant
vahana
appearsInArtForm Hindu temple sculpture
Indian miniature painting
Southeast Asian temple reliefs
associatedWith clouds
rainstorms
thunder
associatedWithDeity Indra
associatedWithElement water
belongsToClass diggaja
color white
cultCenter Assam
Karnataka
Orissa
surface form: Odisha
describedAs huge in size
multi-tusked elephant
radiant
white elephant
direction east
equivalentInBuddhism Airavati self-linksurface differs
surface form: Airavata
etymology derived from Sanskrit words for "produced from water"
gender male
languageOfName Sanskrit
mentionedIn Bhagavata Purana
Mahabharata
Matsya Purana
Puranas
Ramayana
Vishnu Purana
mountOf Indra
oneOf eight directional elephants
realm heaven
religion Hinduism
residence Svarga
role king of elephants
vehicle of Indra
spouse Abhramu
symbolOf auspiciousness
fertility
prosperity
purity
rain
royal power
strength
worshippedAs guardian of directions
protector of kings

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iravati hasAlternativeName Airavati
Indra mount Airavati
this entity surface form: Airavata
Samudra Manthan featuresBeing Airavati
this entity surface form: Airavata
Airavatesvara Temple associatedWith Airavati
this entity surface form: Airavata
Airavati equivalentInBuddhism Airavati self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Airavata