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ID: 901002281
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Record Type: Character/Person

Mahavala (Buddhist deity)

Note: One face, 4-armed, red complexion, brown hair rise upwards, tied with a snake, in two right hands carries white staff and chowrie.

Names:
Mahavala (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
........<Buddhist characters> (P)
............Mahavala (Buddhist deity) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Buddhist
.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Mahavala (Buddhist deity)
................Bhattacharyya, Indian Buddhist Iconography (1924) 49

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