ID: 901002478 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002478	Record Type: Character/Person

	Diggajas (Hindu characters)

Note: Eight mythical named elephants that appear in Hindu cosmology bearing the world (along with eight unnamed female elephants).

Names:

	Diggajas (Hindu characters) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Diggajas (Hindu characters) (Sanskrit (transliterated)-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:

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

Other Relationships:

	takes the form of .... elephants (animals)
	.....(Proboscidea (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... world bearers
	.....(supernatural beings, people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Diggajas (Hindu characters)
	................AIIS, CAA database (2000-)
	................EITA Glossary: North India (1989-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ EITA Glossary: North India (1989-)
	................ AIIS, CAA database (2000-)