Manibhadra
Manibhadra is Kubera's chief attendant and chief of his army.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Referenced in the Mahabharata.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Varna-kavi, Manibhadra Vīr, Mahāla, Makhādeva, Mānuṣyayakṣa, Mekhila, Pārśvanātha Tirthankara, Pāyila, Bhaisajyaguru Buddha, Mudgarpani, Parkham Yaksha, Manigriva, Mayuraja, Nalakubara, Minakshi, Shankha, Padma, Riddhi, Krishna, Vishnu, Nārada, Marica, Vaiśravaṇa, Hārītī, Padmāvatī, Pañcika, Yaksha
- allied with
- Kubera, Vīrabhadra, Purnabadra
- serves
- Kubera
- enemy of
- Ravana, Jalandhara
- sibling of
- Nalakuvara, Pūrṇabhadra
- consort of
- Bahuputrika
Mentioned by
- Manigriva
- Mayuraja
- Nalakubara
- Minakshi
- Shankha
- Padma
- Riddhi
- Krishna
- Vishnu
- Nārada
- Marica
- Vaiśravaṇa
- Hārītī
- Padmāvatī
- Pañcika
- Yaksha
and 9 more
Sources
Source passages
“as well as Padma and Shankha; personified treasures (nidhi); and Manibhadra, Kubera's chief attendant and chief of his army. Like every world-protector, Kubera has seven seers of the North in residence.”
#23215 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Manibhadra and Purnabadra yakshas are mentioned a chief of yakshas, Manibhadra of Northern ones and Purnabadra of Southern ones. Manibhadra Vir still a yaksha worshipped by the Jains, specially those affiliated with the Tapa Gachchha.”
#28816 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the Hindu yakṣa Manibhadra, who appears in Hindu and Buddhist mythology as an associate of Kubera.”
#28854 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“Yakshas seem to have been the object of an important cult in the early periods of Indian history, many of them being known such as Kubera, king of the Yakshas, Manibhadra or Mudgarpani. The Yakshas are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness, and were the object of popular worship.”
#36139 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Yakshas seem to have been the object of an important cult in the early periods of Indian history, many of them being known such as Kubera, king of the Yakshas, Manibhadra or Mudgarpani.”
#36332 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001