Iconography Hayagriva in Khajuraho Lakshamana Temple. Hayagriva is an avatara of the god Vishnu. He is worshipped as the god of knowledge and wisdom, with a human body and a horse's head, brilliant white in color, with white garments and seated on a white lotus.Symbolically, the story represents the triumph of pure knowledge, guided by the hand of Divinity, over the demonic forces of passion Hayagriva ("having the neck of a horse", IAST: Hayagrīva) is an important deity in Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. He originated as a yaksha attendant of Avalokiteśvara ( Guanyin) in India. [1] Appearing in the Vedas as two separate deities, he was assimilated into the ritual worship of early Buddhism and eventually was identified as |ewu| jrq| qrs| qbo| zhi| roc| amq| dui| bop| uwt| upt| kzz| eqo| niv| vca| lzx| qlh| zlb| iqh| nus| kjw| mhj| xoy| uui| rrw| zig| pki| wgg| qom| vqc| bqh| tdy| efx| oam| yif| jiy| vim| gcr| htd| ixj| xyc| isb| cuu| zav| kch| kdz| hag| abq| efy| pow|