Deities
Ahobilam Narasiṁha — 9 forms
Ahobilam — 9 Narasimha shrines on one mountain
Aiyyanār of Puliyangudi
Aiyyanār — the horse-riding boundary-guardian
Āngālamman of Kumbakonam
Āngāḷamman — the body-mother of villages
Aṣṭavināyaka Ganesha cluster
Aṣṭavināyaka — 8 Ganesha pilgrimage of Maharashtra
Attukāl Pongāla Bhagavatī
Attukāl — the women's-only temple of the world's largest women's gathering
Bhagat Ravidās Jī
Ravidās — the 15th-c. Dalit-saint-poet of Banaras
Buḍhi Ṭhākurāṇi
Buḍhi Ṭhākurāṇi — the Old Goddess of Berhampur
Chāmuṇḍēśvarī of Chāmuṇḍī Hill
Chāmuṇḍi — the tutelary goddess of the Mysore Wadiyars
Chottanikkara Bhagavatī
Rājarājeśvarī-Saraswatī-Lakshmi in one day, 3 forms
Dharmarāj / Dharma Thakur
Dharmarāj — the tribal Bengali village deity
Dharmeś / Dharam Mahārāj — Bhojpur village hero-god
Dharmeś — a Bhojpuri-region folk god, deified hero
Durgā-amma in Yakṣagāna country
Durgā-amma — the coastal Karnataka village goddess
Emoinu
Emoinu — the goddess of wealth and the household hearth (Meitei)
Gangamma of Tirupati
Gangamma — the firebrand goddess of Tirupati
Guruvāyūr Krishna
Guruvāyūrappan — the Krishna of Kerala's Guru-Vāyu temple
Hardaul / Hardevji
Hardaul — the tragic prince deified in Bundelkhand
Har-kī-Paurī — Viṣṇu's footprint
Haridwar — the first of the 7 Sapta-Moksha-Purīs
Kanni-māṟ of the Irular
Kanni-māṟ — the Seven Virgin guardians of the Irular tribe
Jagannātha of Ranchi
Ranchi Jagannātha — diasporic temple of the Odia merchants
Hari Mandir Sāhib — Golden Temple
Harmandir Sāhib — central Sikh shrine
Jogaṇiyā Mātā
Jogaṇiyā Mātā — the nine virgins of Rajasthan
Samayapuram Māriyamman
Māriyamman of Samayapuram — North Tamil Nadu's great goddess
Kaliyugavaradan
Kaliyugavaradan — the boon-giver of the Kali age
Kāḷūbāi of Mandhardevi
Kāḷūbāi — the dark goddess of the Western Ghats
Kanni-amman of Salem
Seven sisters — the Kanni cult of the Western Tamil country
Karumāriyamman of Thiruverkadu
Karumāriyamman — the dark goddess of rain
Khāṭu Śyāmjī
Śyām Bābā — Barbarika's deified head, Kṛṣṇa's blessing
Kheteśvar Mahāraj
Kheteśvar — modern Marwari folk-saint god
Kodungallūr Bhagavatī
Kodungallūr — ancient Sakta shrine of the former Chera capital
Kula-devatas — family gods
The kula-devatā concept — the personal family deity
Liṅgarāja of Bhubaneshwar
Liṅgarāja — King of Liṅgas, presiding Shiva of Odisha
Mahākāla of Ujjain
Mahākāleśvar — Time-Lord Shiva at Ujjain Jyotir-liṅga
Manasā Devi
Manasā — the snake-goddess of Bengal
Mansā Devī of Panchkula
Mansā Devī — the Panchkula Shakti Pīṭha
Keśava Deva of Mathura
Keśava Deva — Krishna's janmasthān temple at Mathura
Mūkāmbikā of Kollūr
Mūkāmbikā — goddess of the three goddesses combined
Mutharamman of Kulasekaranpatti
Mutharamman — the pearl-mother of the Pandya country
Oṁkāreśvar of Narmadā
Oṁkāreśvar — island-liṅga shaped like the Oṁ symbol
Pākhangbā
Pākhangbā — the primordial serpent-deity of the Meitei
Periyaṇṇan Sāmi
Periyaṇṇan — the Elder Brother guardian of southern Tamil Nadu
Sītā Kund of Sitāmarhi
Sītā Kund — the birthplace of Sīta in the Janakpur region
Lakṣmaṇa Jhūla — the ashram-Ganga
Rishikesh — gateway to Himalayas + global yoga
Hatu Burhiya / Dharamajī
Sarhul village-spirits of the Ho, Santal, Oraon, Munda
Siddhi-vināyak of Prabhadevi, Mumbai
Mumbai's beloved Siddhi-vināyak
Siṁhādri Narasiṁha
Siṁhādri — Narasimha of the Lion Hill
Mallikārjuna of Śrīśailam
Mallikārjuna — Shiva at the Nallamala mountain Jyotirlinga
Tārakeśvara Shiva of Bengal
Tārakeśvara — the principal Shaiva shrine of West Bengal
Tirumala Veṅkaṭeśvara
Tirumala Bālājī — the world's richest temple
Virūpākṣa of Hampi
Virūpākṣa — Shiva of Vijayanagara capital
Viṭṭhala (Viṭhobā) of Pandharpur
Viṭṭhala — the brick-standing Vishnu of Maharashtra
Yādādri Narasiṁha
Yādādri — the newly-rebuilt Telangana Narasimha
Yellamma of Saundatti
Yellamma / Reṇuka — the mother goddess of northern Karnataka