What is Mangala?
[[File:Mangala (Mars).jpg|thumb|A painting of Mangala on his white and orange [[bull]] mount]] [[File:Mangaldeva.jpg|thumb|A sculpture of Mangala and his wife Jvala in the Surendrapuri Temple, [[Telangana|Telengana]], [[India]]]] Mangala (Sanskrit: मङ्गल, IAST: Maṅgala) is the name for [[Mars]], the red planet, in [[Hinduism|Hindu]] texts. Also known as Lohita (meaning: the red one), he is the god of [[anger]], [[Sexual abstinence|celibacy]] and sometimes linked to god [[Kartikeya]] (Skanda). [[Category:Mars]]