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
- co occurs with
- Bhumi Devi, Mahishasura, Lalita Tripurasundari, Raktabeeja, Mookasura, Bhandasura, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Bhagiratha, Śiva, Saraswati, Satis, Chanda, Munda
- child of
- Meru
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“In some legends, the goddess Ganga is daughter of Himavan (the personification of the Himalayas) and Menavati (an apsara).”
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“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