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Deity Buddhist traditions

Hariti

鬼子母 zh 鬼子母神 ja

Deity in Buddhist traditions

  • Consort of Pañcika

A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.

Accounts kept apart

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Family

The family of Hariti

Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.

Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.

As the accounts tell it
The family as a list · 1

Kinship in an account 1

What this means

Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.

Does not imply marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Connections

How Hariti connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Attribute 1

What this means

A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.

Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

2 statements on this record

  • 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Gunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0

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