Vishnu Purana (redirect from Visnu Purana)
The Viṣṇu Purāṇa (Sanskrit: विष्णुपुराण) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism. It is an important Pancharatra...
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Garbhodaksayi Vishnu (redirect from Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu)
the four-handed Viṣṇu form. — Commentary, Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7 In Srimad Bhagavatam, this is explained as: Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu is the first incarnation...
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Mahavishnu (redirect from Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu)
Pradyumna, and Aniruddha, then Sankarshana expands into Karanodakasayi-Visnu (Maha-Vishnu), who reclines within the Mahat-Tattva, creating innumerable...
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from what is known as Classical Hinduism, the seeds are there. Gods like Visnu and Siva (under the name Rudra), who will become so dominant later, are...
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tishthati || jagataḥ sthiti-samdhānaṁ samharanti yuge yuge | trayaṁ brahma-mahā-viṣṇu-māheśvara-iti smṛtam || Translation: "In this way, the one supreme entity...
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2018 Lavy, Paul A. (2003). "As in Heaven, So on Earth: The Politics of Visnu Siva and Harihara Images in Preangkorian Khmer Civilisation". Journal of...
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Upapurāṇas. Sanskrit College. 1958. Center Vedic om Aditya "Manifestation of Viṣṇu as Buddha and Kalki [Chapter 16]". November 2021. A Companion to Indian...
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Vishnu Smriti (redirect from Visnu Smrti)
Vishnu Smriti (IAST: Viṣṇu Smṛti) is one of the latest books of the Dharmaśāstra tradition in Hinduism and the only one which does not deal directly with...
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Caturvyūha (redirect from Caturvyūha Viṣṇu)
four earthly emanations (Vyūhas) of the Supreme deity Nārāyaṇa, and later Viṣṇu. The first of these emanations is the hero-god Vāsudeva, with the other...
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