vehicle, conveyance, carrier; mount, an animal used for riding on. Virtually every higher deity of the Hindu Pantheon has a carrier or mount from the animal kingdom, sometimes of a mythical character, e.g. Brahma the goose or swan, Śiva the bull,...

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Vâhana or a Hindu vehicle, sometimes called a mount, is an animal, mythical entity or chimera (or sometimes a divine attribute) closely associated with a particular deity in Hindu mythology. Sometimes the deity is iconographically depicted riding...