Agni

Agni may refer to:

• Agni, the Sanskrit for "fire"
  • Agni (Ayurveda)

• Agni is another name for the Anyin language, a language spoken principally in the Côte d'Ivoire.
• Agne, an early king of Sweden in Norse mythology
• A tribe in Sierra Leone.^[1]

As a given name

• Agni Pratistha, Miss Indonesia Universe 2006

Music

• Agni is the name of the 3^rd chakra (group) of Melakarta ragas in Carnatic music (see chakras of melakarta ragas)
• Agni (band): an Indian rock band

Proper names and brands

• Agni missile system
• cyclone Agni, a tropical cyclone with an Indian name in 2004
• AGNI, the literary magazine
• Team Agni, the winners of the 2009 TTXGP

Popular culture

• Aguni, a boss in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (and in a later released, though with a chronologically earlier plot, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin) that takes the form of a gigantic flame-engulfed demon used by Celia Fortner to fuse with Dario Bossi's soul to increase his pyrokinetic powers. It has the head of a bull's skull, the skeletal torso of a broad-shouldered man, gigantic claw-tipped hands and a golden 'belt' with a purple crystal at its centre which gives it levitating powers. It uses pillars of flame and its gigantic claws to attack.
• Agni, the currently active Second Life grid
• Agni, one of the bosses in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening along with Rudra
• HMS Agni, Apollo class light cruiser, Capt (Junior Grade) The Honorable Michelle Henke commanding, in David Weber's Honorverse.

References

1. ^ Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 4 August 2009, page 14, which says that in 1992 Michael Jackson visited Krindjabo (a village in Sierra Leone), and the people there said that he was descended from a royal line and declared him to be their prince.

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