Results for "Devarāja"

The foremost deity of the Ṛgveda — invoked in more hymns than any other. Indra is the storm-king who splits the demon Vṛtra with his Vajra to release the pent-up cosmic waters; the…

Wayang Kulit shadow theatre, the volcanic Trimūrti spires of Prambanan, and Angkor Wat's 49-metre Churning of the Ocean — how Southeast Asia carved and projected the epics into for…

… s political theology. Khmer kings understood themselves as *Devarāja*, divine rulers; by building the temple the king symbolically drew the stability and immortality won in that ch …