Dikpalas, Guardian Deities of the Directions

The Dikpalas, the deities traditionally assigned as guardians of the cardinal and intercardinal directions in Hindu cosmology: Indra guarding the east, Agni the southeast, Yama the south and the underworld of the dead, Nirriti the southwest, Varuna the west and the cosmic waters, Vayu the northwest and the wind, and Kubera the north and wealth, with Yama appearing here under both a plain and an honorific form of his name as separately live entities in this atlas.