<P> As the treasurer of the riches of the world, Kubera is prescribed to be worshipped . Kubera also credited money to the god Venkateshwara (a form of the god Vishnu) for his marriage with Padmavati . In remembrance of this, the reason devotees go to Tirupati to donate money in Venkateshwara's Hundi ("Donation pot"), is so that he can pay it back to Kubera . </P> <P> While Kubera still enjoys prayers as the god of wealth, his role is largely taken by the god of wisdom, fortune and obstacle - removal, Ganesha, with whom he is generally associated . </P> <P> Kubera is recognized outside India and Hinduism as well . Kubera is a popular figure in Buddhist as well as Jain mythology . The Orientalist Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh remarked that, "Every Indian religion has a Kubera after the Hindu prototype". </P> <P> Kubera is the Buddhist Vaiśravaṇa or Jambhala, and the Japanese Bishamon . The Buddhist Vaisravana, like the Hindu Kubera, is the reagent of the North, a Loka - pala and the Lord of Yakshas . He is one of the Four Heavenly Kings, each associated with a cardinal direction . In Buddhist legends, Kubera is also equated with Pañcika, whose wife Hariti is the symbol of abundance . The iconography of Kubera and Pancika is so similar that in certain cases, A. Getty comments, it is extremely difficult to distinguish between Pancika and Kubera . The Japanese Bishamon, also known as Tamon - Ten, is one of the Jūni - Ten (十 二 天), a group of 12 Hindu deities adopted in Buddhism as guardian deities (deva or ten) who are found in or around Buddhist shrines . The Juni - Ten group of twelve deities were created by adding four deities to the older grouping of Happou - Ten, the eight guardians of the directions . Bishamon rules over the north, like his Hindu counterpart Kubera . </P>

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