Matanga
Matanga (Mātaṅga Sanskrit: मातंग) may be:
- the name of an elephant in Hindu mythology[1]
- the name of an Boddhisattva, protagonist of the Matanga Jataka
- name of a Pratyekabuddha
- name of the author of the Brihaddeshi, an early treatise on classical Indian music
- an Ocean-Going Tug of the Indian Navy commissioned on April 2, 1983
- in the Indian caste system, one of the lowest ones
- Matanga (moth), a moth genus
Notes
- ↑ John Dowson (1870), A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature, Trübner & Co., p. 205