are called varahas or collectively a varahavah.

The god Varaha is also called referred by the epithet sukara (Sanskrit ????, ), meaning 'wild boar', which also used in the Rigveda (e.g. 7.55.4) and the Atharvaveda (e.g. 2.27.2). The word literally means "the animal that makes a peculiar nasal sound in respiration"; in the Bhagavata Purana, Varaha is referred to Sukara, when he is born from the god Brahma's