 The name and, to some extent, the deity was borrowed into Armenian Վահագն Vahagn and Վռամ "Vṙam", and has cognates in Buddhist Sogdian 𐫇𐫢𐫄𐫗 "wšɣn w(i)šaɣn", Manichaen Parthian 𐭅𐭓𐭉𐭇𐭓𐭌 "wryḥrm Wahrām", Kushan Bactrian ορλαγνο "Orlagno".While the figure of "Verethragna" is highly complex, parallels have also been drawn between, Puranic Vishnu, Manichaean "Adamas", Chaldean/Babylonian Nergal, Egyptian Horus, Hellenic Ares and Heracles.