ID: 901002450 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002450	Record Type: Character/Person

	Aṣṭāvasus (Hindu deities)

Note: In Hinduism, the eight elemental gods and attendant deities of Indra and later Vishnu; described in the Ramayana as the children of Kasyapa and Aditi, and in the Mahabharata as the sons of Manu or Brahma Prajapati.

Names:

	Aṣṭāvasus (Hindu deities) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Aṣṭāvasus (Hindu deities) (Sanskrit (transliterated)-P,D,N)
	Ashta Vasus (Hindu deities) (English,U)
	Vasus (Hindu deities) (English,U)
	वसु) (Hindu deities) (Sanskrit,D)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Hindu iconography> (P)
		........<Hindu characters> (P)
		............Aṣṭāvasus (Hindu deities) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... vasus
	.....(deities, people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Aṣṭāvasus (Hindu deities)
	................AIIS AAT, contribution from AIIS EITA (2021-)
	................EITA Glossary: North India (1989-)
	Ashta Vasus (Hindu deities)
	................Dowson, Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology (1870)
	Vasus (Hindu deities)
	................Dowson, Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology (1870)
	वसु) (Hindu deities)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasu

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ AIIS AAT, contribution from AIIS EITA (2021-)
	................ EITA Glossary: North India (1989-)
	................ Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasu