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Sign in to saveVayu (; ), also known as Vata () and Pavana (), is the Hindu god of the winds as well as the divine messenger of the gods. In the Vedic scriptures, Vayu is an important deity and is closely associated with Indra, the king of gods. He is mentioned to be born from the breath of Supreme Being Vishvapurusha and also the first one to drink Soma. The Upanishads praise him as Prana or 'life breath of the world'. In the later Hindu scriptures, he is described as a dikpala (one of the guardians of the direction), who looks over the north-west direction. The Hindu epics describe him as the father of the
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- Deity.type
- Hindu
- Deity.image
- Vayu Deva.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Vayu on his Vahana.
- Deity.name
- Vāyu
- Deity.other_names
- Anila (अनिल)Pávana (पवन)Vyāna (व्यान)Vāta (वात)Tanūna (तनून)Mukhyaprāṇa (मुख्यप्राण)Bhīma (भीम)Maruta (मारुत)
- Deity.Devanagari
- वायु
- Deity.Sanskrit_transliteration
- Vāyu
- Deity.affiliation
- Deva
- Deity.god_of
- God of Air, Wind, and Breath
- Deity.member_of
- the Pancha Bhuta and Dikpala
- Deity.abode
- Vayu Loka, Satya Loka
- Deity.mantra
- Om Vayave Namaha
- Deity.parents
- Vishvapurusha (according to the Rigveda) Vishnu and Lakshmi (according to Madhva sect)
- Deity.children
- Mudā Apsaras (daughters) Hanuman (son) Bhima (son)
- Deity.weapon
- Mace (weapon of Mukhyaprana Vayu) Goad (weapon of Dikpala Vayu) Vayavyastra (Vayu's astra)
- Deity.consort
- A daughter of Tvashta Svasti Bharati (according to Madhva sect)
- Deity.mount
- Chariot drawn by Horses, Gazelle
- Deity.Indo european_equivalent
- H₂weh₁yú
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Vayu (; ), also known as Vata () and Pavana (), is the Hindu god of the winds as well as the divine messenger of the gods. In the Vedic scriptures, Vayu is an important deity and is closely associated with Indra, the king of gods. He is mentioned to be born from the breath of Supreme Being Vishvapurusha and also the first one to drink Soma. The Upanishads praise him as Prana or 'life breath of the world'. In the later Hindu scriptures, he is described as a dikpala (one of the guardians of the direction), who looks over the north-west direction. The Hindu epics describe him as the father of the god Hanuman and Bhima.
The followers of the 13th-century saint Madhva regard him as an incarnation of Vāyu. This identification is part of Madhva sectarian tradition; however, the textual basis cited for some such claims has been questioned in modern scholarship, especially by Roque Mesquita, who argued that a number of sources attributed to Madhva are of uncertain or problematic status. ==Connotations== The word for air (vāyu) or wind (pavana) is one of the classical elements in Hinduism. The Sanskrit word Vāta literally means 'blown'; Vāyu, 'blower' and Prāna, 'breathing' (viz. the breath of life, cf. the *an- in animate). Hence, the primary referent of the word is the 'deity of life', who is sometimes for clarity referred to as Mukhya-Vāyu (the chief Vayu) or Mukhya Prāna (the chief of life force or vital force).