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Trimurti: three Hindu gods into one form with three faces

Brahma: Creator
Vishnu: Preserver
Shiva: Destroyer

Vishnu and Shiva are more widely worshiped.

Very few temples for Brahma, said to lost worshipers because of telling a lie.

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Saleem is actually preserving history through his story telling, just like the Hindu god Vishnu preserves the universes.

"Twenty-six pickle-jars stand gravely on a shelf; twenty-six special blends, each with its identifying label, neatly inscribed with familiar phrases: 'Movements Performed by Pepperpots', for instance, or "Alpha and Omega,' or Commander Sabarmati's Baton'. Twenty-six rattle eloquently when local trains go yellow-and-browning past; on my desk, five empty jars tinkle urgently, reminding me of my uncompleted task" (489).

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Hindu Goddess Lakshmi is sometimes referred to as Padma.
Name Definition: To perceive/observe
What does Padma do throughout the story?
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Lakshmi is also the significant other of Vishnu, just as Padma becomes one of Saleem's significant others.

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"Shiva, the god of destruction, who is also most potent of deities; Shiva, greatest of dances; who rides on a bull; whom no force can resist... the boy Shiva, he told us, had to fight for survival from his earliest days. And when his father had, about a year previously, completely lost his singing voice, Shiva had had to defend himself against Wee Willie Winkie's parental zeal" (281).

"Test- and hysterectomized, the children of midnight were denied the possibility of reproducing themselves... but that was only a side-effect, because there were truly extraordinary doctors, and they drained us of more than that: hope, too" (559).
"I shriek "What about him? Major Shiva, the traitor? Don't you care about him?" (560).

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Saleem's son is also represented as a Hindu gods but mostly based on physical characteristics.

"He was the true great-grandson of his great-grandfather, but elephantiasis attacked him in the ears instead of the nose-because he was also the true son of Shiva-and-Parvati; he was elephant-headed Ganesh" (534)

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Saleem and Shiva both rely on each other for balance within the world, just as both Vishnu and Shiva rely on each for preserving and destroying the universes in the Hindu faith.

Throughout the whole book, Rushdie puts India into the book, including parts of the religions. By him giving these characters the names that he did, along with their stories that match parts of the Hindu gods stories, he added so much more to reading.