Viśvakarmā
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Viśvakarman
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1 expressionViśvakarman“Viśvakarmā”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
I offer to Viśvakarman;
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Viśvakarmā, the divine craftsman/creator, described seeking out Earth with an oblation and hiding a vessel of enjoyment within her.
She whom Viśvakarmā sought out with an oblation, in whom the fires dwell within the waters — the vessel of enjoyment was laid hidden in a secret place;
I offer to Viśvakarman;
I have come as the overpowering one, as Viśvakarmā, armed with my own weapons.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The divine craftsman who grants Hanūmān invulnerability to all weapons of his making.
"Among all the weapons fashioned by me for the gods, he shall be invulnerable to any of them in the time of battle.
Viśvakarmā, seeing this infant resembling the infant sun, the foremost of craftsmen, of great wisdom, proclaimed his boon: