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ID: 901002502
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002502
Record Type: Character/Person

Daśa-Dikp$01la (Hindu characters)

Note: Guardians of the eight directions, plus the additional two, for zenith and nadir.

Names:
Daśa-Dikp$01la (Hindu characters) (preferred,English-P,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Hindu iconography> (P)
........<Hindu characters> (P)
............Dikpālas (Hindu characters) (I)
................Daśa-Dikp$01la (Hindu characters) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... guardian deities
.....(deities, people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Daśa-Dikp$01la (Hindu characters)
................Sahai, Minor Hindu and Buddhist Deities (1975)

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