Deity Goddesses of Songkran
Saṃjñā
सरण्यू hi சந்தியா ta
Hindu goddess of clouds and dusk
- Child of Vishvakarma, Tvastar and Brahmā
- Consort of Surya
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 Saṃjñā
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.
The family as a list · 12
Kinship in an account 12
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Brahmā deva and heavenly king in Buddhism; lord of the heavenly realm Brahmaloka; not regarded as a creator deity (unlike the deity of the same name in Hinduism) - child of (father) Tvastar Artisan god in the Vedic religion
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child of (father) Vishvakarma The prototypical designer and architect of systems, architecture, and mechanical sciences. - parent of (child) Ashvins Hindu twin gods
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parent of (child) Revanta Rigvedic deity -
parent of (father) Trisiras three-headed son of Tvashta - parent of (mother) Vaivasvata Manu current Manu of Hinduism
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parent of (child) Yama god of death in Hinduism, Buddhism, and various Indo-European mythologies
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parent of (child) Yamunā River goddess of life in Hinduism -
partner of (spouse) Surya solar god in Hinduism -
sibling of Chāyā Hindu goddess of shadows -
sibling of Trisiras three-headed son of Tvashta
Connections
How Saṃjñā connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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.
13 statements on this record
- 13 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.
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- Pictures
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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