Menavati

deity mountain Hindu single tradition · 3

Menavati is an apsara and the mother of the goddess Ganga and Parvati.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in the Vedas and Puranas.

Relationships

parent of
Ganga, Parvati
consort of
Himavan, Himavat
child of
Meru

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Sources

Source passages

“In some legends, the goddess Ganga is daughter of Himavan (the personification of the Himalayas) and Menavati (an apsara).”

#22445 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Ganga is described as the eldest child of Himavat, son of Brahma and the king of the Himalayas, and his wife Queen Menavati, the daughter of Meru.”

#29140 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“Parvati derives her name from being incarnated as the daughter of king Himavan and mother Menavati”

#29274 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5