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Devayanai

deity sky Tamil single tradition · 2

Devayanai (lit. 'Divine elephant') is one of two consorts of Kartikeya in Tamil literature, identified with Devasena. She is depicted as the daughter of Indra in Kanda Puranam and was brought up by Airavata, the elephant. She was given in marriage to Kartikeya for his help in saving the devas from the asuras.

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Relationships

co occurs with
Shachi, Valli, Daksha, Ganesha, Parvati, Ashokasundari, Śiva
syncretized with
Devasena
consort of
Kārtikeya, Murugan
child of
Indra, Vishnu

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Sources

wikipedia (2)
  1. Kartikeya
  2. Devasena

Source passages

“In Tamil literature, he has two consorts: Devayanai (identified with Devasena) and Valli. In Kanda Puranam, Devayanai (lit. 'Divine elephant'; as she was brought up by Airavata, the elephant) is depicted”

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“Devayanai is generally depicted with her husband, particularly in an iconographic form called Senapati. She sits on the left thigh of the six-headed and twelve-armed Kartikeya.”

#30504 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5