Goddesses of India ~ H-J

Hariti
Perhaps a relic of ancient agricultural ritual, she may have been brought to India as Isis by the Greeks in the 4th century AD. She is a mother suckling five hundred demons; the wife of Kubera, the god of dark spirits; or of Panchika. She is said to have been converted to Buddhism by the Buddha himself.

Hulka Devi
A goddess of cholera.

Ida
The Hindu goddess of prayer and devotion.

Indrani
Indrani was Indra's wife and consort; in the early Vedic accounts she was merely a female shadow of him. She is sometimes referred to as the goddess of wrath. She was the daughter of the demon Puloman, whom Indra killed. She was always described as beautiful, but was said to have one thousand eyes. In later Hindu times, she came to personify jealousy and was regarded as of evil intent. In southern India, however, she was ranked as one of the nine astral deities who were the highest of the gods. Her symbolic animal was either the lion or the elephant.

Jyashtha
Hindu Goddess of bad luck.