Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shashthi> ?p ?o }
- Shashthi abstract "Shashthi or Shashti (Sanskrit: षष्ठी, Ṣaṣṭhī, literally \"sixth\") is a Hindu folk goddess, venerated as the benefactor and protector of children (especially, as the giver of male child). She is also the deity of vegetation and reproduction and is believed to bestow children and assist during childbirth. She is often pictured as a motherly figure, riding a cat and nursing one or more infants. She is symbolically represented in a variety of forms, including an earthenware pitcher, a banyan tree or part of it or a red stone beneath such a tree; outdoor spaces termed shashthitala are also consecrated for her worship. The worship of Shashthi is proscribed to occur on the sixth day of each lunar month of the Hindu calendar as well as on the sixth day after a child's birth. Barren women desiring to conceive and mothers seeking to ensure the protection of their children will worship Shashthi and request her blessings and aid. She is especially venerated in eastern India.Most scholars believe that Shashthi's roots can be traced to Hindu folk traditions. References to this goddess appear in Hindu scriptures as early as 8th and 9th century BCE, in which she is associated with children as well as the Hindu war-god Skanda. Early references consider her a foster-mother of Skanda, but in later texts she is identified with Skanda's consort, Devasena. In some early texts where Shashthi appears as an attendant of Skanda, she is said to cause diseases in the mother and child, and thus needed to be propitiated on the sixth day after childbirth. However, over time, this malignant goddess became seen as the benevolent saviour and bestower of children.".
- Shashthi thumbnail Shasti.jpg?width=300.
- Shashthi wikiPageID "29782948".
- Shashthi wikiPageLength "27998".
- Shashthi wikiPageOutDegree "82".
- Shashthi wikiPageRevisionID "686162464".
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Ahichchhatra.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Areca_nut.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Ashoka_tree.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Bengal.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Bhadra_(month).
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Bihar.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Brahma.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Brahma_Vaivarta_Purana.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Bāṇabhaṭṭa.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Childhood_goddesses.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fertility_goddesses.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Hindu_goddesses.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Chitragupta.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Devasena.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Devi.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Devi-Bhagavata_Purana.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Durga.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Ficus_benghalensis.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink File:Kalasha.jpg.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink File:Murugan_by_Raja_Ravi_Varma.jpg.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Folk_religion.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Gluttony.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Gupta_Empire.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Hariti.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Harshacharita.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Hindu_calendar.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Hinduism.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Indra.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Jarasandha.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Jyeshtha_(month).
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kadambari.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kalasha.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kalpa_(Vedanga).
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kartikeya.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kashyapa_Samhita.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kheer.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kushan_Empire.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Kṛttikā.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Lying-in.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Mahabharata.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Manasa.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Mangal-Kāvya.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Mantra.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Manu_(Hinduism).
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Mathura.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Matrikas.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Nag_Panchami.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Nakshatra.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Odisha.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Padma_Purana.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Paksha.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Parvati.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Prajapati.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Prakṛti.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Puerperal_infections.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Shaligram.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Shashthi_(day).
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Sinivali.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Skandamata.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Tetanus.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Vahana.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Vayu_Purana.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Vedas.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Vermilion.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Vrishni.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Yajna.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Yajurveda.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Yaudheya.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink Yājñavalkya_Smṛti.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink File:Big_Banyan.jpg.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink File:Black_cat_on_a_railing_and_green_trees_in_summer-Hisashi-01.jpg.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink File:Shashthi.jpg.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLink File:Standing_Goddess_Sashti_Between_Two_Warriors_Skanda_and_Visakha_-_Circa_2nd_Century_CE_-_ACCN_00-F-13_-_Government_Museum_-_Mathura_2013-02-23_5789.JPG.
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Shashthi".
- Shashthi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Shashti".
- Shashthi abode "Skandaloka".
- Shashthi affiliation Devi.
- Shashthi consort "Skanda when identified with Devasena".
- Shashthi devanagari "षष्ठी".
- Shashthi godOf "Goddess of children, reproduction".
- Shashthi imageSize "230".
- Shashthi mount "Cat".
- Shashthi name "Shashthi".
- Shashthi type "Hindu".
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_book.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Good_article.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:HinduMythology.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:IAST.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_deity.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Lang-sa.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Use_British_English.
- Shashthi wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Use_dmy_dates.
- Shashthi subject Category:Childhood_goddesses.