Uluka
Pravirakarna - Is a chiranjeevi owl who lives in the Himalayas.
Uluka - The owl of Lakshmi..
Mushika
Mushika - the rat mount of Ganesha /(GANESHA) is very carefully for his mount Mushika and also his safety/
Gaja/Hastin
Erawan is the Thai version of Airavata. He is depicted as a huge elephant with either three or sometimes thirty-three heads which are often shown with more than two tusks.
Gajamina Gadjamina, Gaja minah, or Eon is an elephant-headed figure with the body of a fish used for patulangan sarcophagi in Bali,
The Gajasimha is a Puranic animal with the body of a lion and the head of an elephant. At Angkor, it is portrayed as a guardian of temples and as a mount for some warriors.
Gajasura is an elephant demon killed by Shiva, in his Gajasurasamhara form.
Gajendra the elephant, was rescued by Vishnu from the clutches of Huhu, the Crocodile in the legend of Gajendra Moksha.
Ganesha is also is known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, the elephant-headed God.
Iravati is a daughter of Kadru and Kasyapa. She is the mother of Airavata, the mount of Indra. She is also associated with a sacred river.
In a tale about Ganesha's birth, the elephant-headed demoness Malini gives birth to Ganesha after drinking the bath-water of Parvati, Ganesha's mother.
In Hindu Puranas, there were three elephants by the name Supratika. The foremost among them is listed as one of the Diggajas, each representing the eight quarters. The Hindu epic Mahabharata describes two more elephants by the same name – a Puranic elephant that was an incarnation of a sage, and the one that belonged to Bhagadatta, the king of Pragjyotisha.
Vinayaki is an elephant-headed Hindu goddess, a Matrika. The goddess is generally associated with the elephant-headed god of wisdom, Ganesha.
Diggajas
The Amarakosha, a thesaurus of Sanskrit, mentions the names of eight male elephants, and their respective consorts, that bear the world together.
Airavata is a Puranic white elephant who carries the Hindu God Indra. He also represents the Eastern direction, the quarter of Indra. Abhramu is the consort of Airavata.
Pundarika, carries the Hindu god Yama. He represents the Southeast. Kapila is the consort of Pundarika.
Vamana and his mate Pingala guard the South with an unspecified god.
Kumunda (Southwest) and his mate Anupama, with the god Surya.
Anjana and his mate Añjanā guards the West with the god Varuna.
Pushpa-danta and his mate Subhadanti guards the Northwest with the god Vayu.
Sarva-bhauma represents the North, the quarter of Kubera. His mate is Tāmrakarna.
Supratika represents the North-east direction, the quarter of Soma. Anjanavati is believed to be the wife of Supratika.
Four names are given in the Ramayana 1.41:
Viru-paksha - East
Maha-padma - South
Saumanas - West
Bhadra - North
Kapi
Kapi is known to be a form of monkey, especially used to represent Hanuman as seen from Hanumaan chalsa lines:- jai kapees tihu lok ujagar
Vanara
The Vanaras are the monkey race in the Ramayana. The following are notable vanaras.
Angada, son of Bali, helped Rama find his wife Sita
Anjana, Hanuman's mother.
Hanuman is a monkey God and an ardent devotee of the God Rama.
Kesari, Hanuman's foster father.
Makardhwaja is the son of Hanuman as per the Valmiki Ramayana.
Nala, son of Vishwakarma.
Nila, son of Agni.
Rumā was the wife of Sugrīva.
Sugriva, king of Kishkindha, son of Surya.
Tara, wife of Bali.
Vali, Sugriva's brother, and a son of Indra
Varāha
Emūsha - In the Brāhmana, a boar which raised up the earth, represented as black and with a hundred arms (probably the germ of the Varaha avatara).
Varaha is the third avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu in the form of a boar.
Varahi is one of the Matrikas. With the head of a sow, Varahi is the consort of Varaha.
Hariṇa
Pashupati (Sanskrit Paśupati) is an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva as "lord of the animals".
Rishyasringa was a boy born with the horns of a deer in Hindu-Buddhist Puranas, who became a seer.
Paśu
Ushas is associated with the reddish cows, and are released by Indra from the Vala cave at the beginning of time.
Vrishabha - A cow-headed Yogini, who is considered to be the mother of Ganesha.
Kamadhenu
Kamadhenu also is known as Surabhi, is a bovine-goddess described in Hinduism as the mother of all cows. She is a miraculous "cow of plenty" who provides her owner whatever he desires and is often portrayed as the mother of other cattle as well as the eleven Rudras. The following are the offspring of Kamadhenu.
Kapila cows (the golden cows), are the children of Kamadhenu, who were also called the mothers of the world (according to the Anushasana Parva, the thirteenth book of the Mahabharata).
Manoratha, a calf, created by Krishna (along with its mother, Kamadhenu) from the left side of his body (according to the Devi Bhagavata Purana)
Nandini (sometimes referred to as Sabala), the cow of Vashistha, the daughter of Indra's cow Kamadhenu.
Rohini, daughter of Surabhi, who is said to be the mother of cows (according to the Ramayana)
Sushila, a daughter of Kamadhenu in the Brahmanda Purana
Yogishvari, a cow, daughter of Kamadhenu (according to the Matsya Purana)
Dikpalis
The guardian cow goddesses of the heavenly quarters (they are the 4 daughters of Kamadhenu according to the Udyoga Parva, fifth book of the Mahabharata):
Dhenu in the north
Harhsika in the south
Saurabhi in the east
Subhadra in the west
Vṛṣabha
Bir Kuar or Birkuar, also known as Birnath, is a Hindu cattle-god worshipped by the herder-class of Ahirs of western Bihar in India. He is considered to be a form of the god, Krishna.
Nandi or Nandikeshvara is the name for the bull which serves as the mount of the god Shiva and as the gatekeeper of Shiva and Parvati
Mahiṣa
Mahishasura; According to Hindu Puranas, Mahishasura was a combination of both an Asura and a mahisha ("water buffalo"), with a trident.
Mahishi - The sister of Mahishasura. After the death of Mahishasura, Mahishi continued the war against Devas.
Mhasoba, is a horned buffalo deity of pastoral tribes in Western and Southern India.
Paundraka is the name of the buffalo of Yama.
Aja
Aja - A "He-goat" sacred to Pushan. Holds a prominent position in death rites; it shows the path to the dead.
Ajaikapala - A boy, who was begotten by the grace of Shankara. He had one foot of a man and the other of a goat. He overcame death as a child and is known as 'Mrityunjya'. (see also Markandeya)
Daksha - His head was replaced by a goat's after a beheading.
Naigamesha also is known as Harinegameshi, is a goat-headed or deer-headed deity (associated with the war-god Kartikeya).
Pūṣan - a Vedic guardian of flocks and herds.
Ashva
The Ashvins, in Hindu Puranas, are two Vedic gods, divine twin horsemen in the Rigveda, sons of Saranyu, a goddess of the clouds and wife of Surya in his form as Vivasvant. They are represented as humans with the heads of horses.
Badavā - 'A mare, the submarine fire.' In Puranas, it is aflame with the head of a horse, called also Haya-siras.
Dadhi-krā is the name of a divine horse or bird, a personification of the morning Sun.
Devadatta - The white horse of Kalki.
Gandharvi, daughter of Kamadhenu, and is the mother of horses (according to the Ramayana).
Farasi Bahari - These are magical green Water Horses that live at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. They are depicted as a horse in its forepart, with a coiling, scaly, fish-like hindquarter.
Hayagriva, also spelt Hayagreeva, is a horse-headed avatar of the Lord Vishnu in Hinduism.
Keshi is the horse-demon, healed by Krishna.
Kinnara In Hindu Puranas, a kinnara is a paradigmatic lover, a celestial musician, half-human and half-horse.
Tārkṣya is the name of a Puranic being in the Rigveda, described as a horse with the epithet áriṣṭa-nemi "with intact wheel-rims".
Tumburu is a horse-faced Ghandarva, a celestial musician.
Uchchaihshravas is a seven-headed flying horse, that was obtained during the churning of the milk ocean. Uchchaihshravas is often described as a vahana ("vehicle") of Indra - the god-king of heaven but is also recorded to be the horse of Bali, the king of demons.
White horse (Puranas) White horses appear many times in Hindu Puranas.
Khaḍgin
The Karkadann was a Puranic creature said to live on the grassy plains of India and Persia. The word kargadan also means rhinoceros in Persian and Arabic.
Shvan
Ruru - a dog; one of the Bhairavas, a manifestation of Shiva.
In Hindu Puranas, Sarama is being referred to as the dog of the gods, or Deva-shuni.
Sarameya (literally, "sons of Sarama") are the children of Sarama, whose names are Shyama and Sabala.
Sharvara is an ancient Hindu Puranic dog belonging to Yama.
Sisara is the husband of Sarama, father of the Sarameya.
Mahabidala
Budhi Pallien is a fearsome goddess of forests and jungles, who roams northern India, particularly Assam, in the form of a tiger.
Dawon a sacred tiger (sometimes drawn as a lion), it was offered by gods to serve goddess Durga or Parvati as a mount for rewarding her victory.
Kimpurusha were described to be lion-headed beings.
Narasiṃha is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, and is often visualised as having a human torso and lower body, with a lion face and claws.
Narasimhi power of Narasimha (lion-man form of Vishnu), is a woman-lion and throws the stars into disarray by shaking her lion mane.
Manasthala is the lion vahana of Durga who was known as the asura Simhamukha in his previous life.
Pratyangira or sometimes called Prathyangira, Narasimhi or Narashimhika, is a Hindu Goddess described with a lioness's face and a human body.
Simhamukha is a lion-faced demon, brother of Surapadman who later was transformed into the vahana of Durga due to his bravery in fighting the god, Muruga.
Vyaghrapada, that is, one having the feet like a tiger, was one of the Puranic rishis (sage) of ancient India.
Bidala
Mārjāra - The cat vahana of Shashthi, a Hindu folk Goddess (Shashthi is associated with the war-god Kartikeya).
Bhallūka
Riksha
The Rikshas are described as something like Vanaras but in later versions of Ramayana, Rikshas are described as bears. Notable Rikshas are as follows:
Jambavan/Jamvanta is a character originating in Indian epic poetry. The King of the Bears, he is an Asiatic or sloth bear in Indian epic tradition.
Jambavati is the daughter of Jambavan, King of the Bears, and the third wife of Krishna.
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