Narayan
Appearance
Narayan or Narayana may refer to:
People
- Narayan (name), a common Indian name (including a list of persons with this and related names)
- Narayan (actor), an Indian film actor
- Narayan (writer), Indian writer
- Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician
- Narayan Pandit, author of the Hitopadesha
Media and entertainment
- Narayan, a song by The Prodigy on their album The Fat of the Land
- Narayan, age in the video game Myst III: Exile
- Narayan, lead character of the 2005 film Water
Religion
- Narayana, a major Vedic god
- another name of the Hindu god Vishnu, who is claimed to reside in bhawsagar on a gigantic five headed snake. Narayan is also used in the following pairs:
- Nara-Narayana means human and god
- Lakshmi Narayan means Narayan and his wife goddess Lakshmi(is goddess of weqlth)
Other uses
- Narayan, Nepal in the Dailekh District
See also
- Narayana sukta, a hymn of the Yajurveda
- Changu Narayan
- Narai, a king of Sukhothai who was named after Narayana