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Today’s tithi, nakshatra and observances
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AI-created illustrationTodayThe tithi, nakshatra and observances of the day.
AI-created illustrationGodsNames, families, histories and differing traditions.
AI-created illustrationStoriesPuranic episodes and the legends of sacred places.
AI-created illustrationPracticesFestivals, vratas and observances, and when they fall.
AI-created illustrationSacred placesResearched temples of Karnataka on the map.
AI-created illustrationYour godsYour birth nakshatra’s deity and your dasha’s graha.
Meet the gods
ShivaThe Auspicious One: supreme being in Shaivism and destroyer-transformer in the Trimurti, worshipped above all in the linga.AI-created devotional illustration
VishnuThe all-pervading preserver: supreme in Vaishnavism, who descends as the avatars Rama, Krishna and others.AI-created devotional illustration
Parvati“She of the mountain”, daughter of Himavan, consort of Shiva and mother of Ganesha and Kartikeya; in Shaktism a benevolent face of the supreme goddess.AI-created devotional illustration
GaneshaThe elephant-headed lord of the ganas and remover of obstacles, son of Shiva and Parvati.AI-created devotional illustration
LakshmiShri, goddess of fortune and radiance, consort of Vishnu who accompanies him in his avatars.AI-created devotional illustration
Saraswati (Sharada)Goddess of knowledge, speech and the arts, once a river goddess of the Rigveda; worshipped as Sharadamba at Sringeri.AI-created devotional illustration
Sacred places
Virupaksha Temple, HampiShiva as Virupaksha, Pampapati, in continuous worship since the seventh century at the heart of Hampi.
Chennakeshava Temple, BelurVishnuvardhana’s Hoysala masterpiece to the “handsome Keshava”, the one great Hoysala temple never abandoned.
Mahabaleshwar Temple, GokarnaHome of the Atmalinga, Shiva’s own linga, which devotees may touch; one of Karnataka’s seven Muktisthalas.
Sri Krishna Matha, UdupiMadhvacharya’s Krishna shrine, seen only through a nine-holed window and served in turn by eight mathas.
Virupaksha Temple, PattadakalQueen Lokamahadevi’s eighth-century Chalukya temple, model for Ellora’s Kailasa and still in worship.
Sharadamba Temple, SringeriThe goddess Sharada at the first of Adi Shankara’s four Amnaya Peethams, on the Tunga river.