Prajapati

Prajapati (Sanskrit: प्रजापति, lit. 'Lord of Creation', IAST: Prajāpati) is a Vedic deity of Hinduism.

Not to be confused with Pashupati.
For other uses, see Prajapati (disambiguation)

In both earlier and later literature, Prajapati is the creator-god Brahma, but the term also connotes many different gods, depending on the Hindu text, ranging from being the creator god to being same as one of the following: Vishvakarma, Agni, Indra, Daksha, and many others, reflecting the diverse Hindu cosmology. In classical and medieval era literature, Prajapati is the same as the metaphysical concept called Brahman (the Universal Soul) as Prajapati-Brahman (Svayambhu Brahman), and Brahman is described as the primordial matter which is present in Prajapati.

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