Apart from the Vaishnavas' Vishnu, Shaivites Shiva and Shakta's Devi there are three more godheads that are adored. |
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The dancer described vividly the coming of Vishnu as Narasimha to protect his bhakta Prahlada. |
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In the Smarta sect, Surya is worshiped as a major Deity, along with Ganesha, Vishnu, Siva, Sakti and Skanda. |
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It is the only Hindu state in the world, ruled over by monarchs who fancy themselves as reincarnations of the Hindu god Vishnu. |
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Lord Rama is one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu and Ramayana is a story which projects Hindu ideals of life. |
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But it is as Krishna, the eighth avatar, that Vishnu steals hearts and minds. |
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Worship of Vishnu and his various avatars especially Rama and Krishna in a profoundly devotional form is the basis of Vaishnavism. |
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Or almost to the last, for towards the end of the story Rama is referred to as an incarnation of the great god Vishnu. |
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His best and most learned priest, Deva-svami, was a devotee of Vishnu who preached sad-dharma. |
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Rama, the hero of the epic Ramayana was another major avatar of Vishnu, incarnated in order to rid the world of the demon Ravana. |
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Some Hindus in Nepal even worship him as a reincarnation of the deity Vishnu. |
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In the early 1980s he started calling himself after Rama, the last incarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu. |
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Some of that love is transferred to Kavita Asrani who Vishnu has watched blossom from childhood to full blown womanhood. |
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Those men who are absorbed in devotion for Vishnu are blessed in the world. |
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Saktas refer to the Supreme as Sakti, Smartas call the Supreme Being Brahman, and to Vaishnavas He is Vishnu. |
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Shiva was depicted as a Himalayan ascetic, Vishnu as a blue youth holding in his four hands a discus, mace, conch, and lotus. |
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Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar was born at Kurundwad in Maharashtra in the year 1872 in a family of Kirtankars. |
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Those who are devotees and who worship Vishnu, are those who perform virtuous deeds. |
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Shiva is the destroyer of the world, following Brahma the creator and Vishnu the preserver, after which Brahma again creates the world and so on. |
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Mahadeva is the Deva of Trinity: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, which means their source. |
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To the right of Vishnu is Lakshmi, his wife and the goddess of good fortune, holding a fly-whisk, the symbol of royalty and happiness. |
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To the right of Vishnu is Lakshmi, his wife, holding a fly-whisk in her hand, the symbol of royalty and happiness. |
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Vishnu is pictured as the divine dreamer of the world dream. |
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The controlling deities of these gunas are Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva. |
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As a youth, he was discovered by his parents, after a four-day search, discoursing learnedly with the priests of Vishnu. |
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Vishnu is wearing a long dhoti which falls in parallel folds to his ankles. |
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The dance is performed by women in honour of the Hindu god Vishnu in his incarnation as the enchantress Mohini. |
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Each god is in charge of one aspect of creation, with Brahma as creator, Vishnu as preserver, and Shiva as destroyer. |
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It would have more power than any other because it represents Vishnu and protects the black magic. |
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Crowned with the royal tiara, or kirita, Vishnu can be identified by the shrivasta on his right breast. |
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Later, as one of the most important of the incarnations of Vishnu, Krishna is portrayed as an incarnate god. |
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The Lord Jagannath she knew, a form of Vishnu, treated everyone equally, whether king or peasant girl like herself. |
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The grand and self-sufficient plan of the Vishnu Purana gives the reader a thorough acquaintance of all the layers of the vedic tradition. |
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The fifth book is one of 38 chapters and it is the biggest of the six books of Vishnu Purana. |
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This is the reason why the Vishnu Purana is said to contain all the keys of the 18 Puranas. |
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Parasara, the son of Sakti, is the first author, who compiled the Vishnu Purana. |
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Still other images are aniconic and found in nature, such as a special type of fossil known as the shalagrama that is sacred to the god Vishnu. |
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On the lower part of the stele, worshipers surround Garuda, the half-human, half-animal steed of the god Vishnu. |
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The Shrivaishnavas worship only Vishnu and his consorts and attendants and do not acknowledge Krishna's mistress Radha. |
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On each side there are in the south the Brahma Temple and in the north the Vishnu Temple with scenes of Mahabharata. |
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In India we have this philosophy of three gods: Brahma, the god of creation, Vishnu, the god of sustenance and Shiva, god of destruction. |
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We are very grateful to NDTV, who have kindly given their permission for us to run Vishnu Som's programme on our website. |
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In his raised right hand, Vishnu holds a mace, remarkably carved and richly decorated. |
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The generous sacrificers continuously view the highest footprints of Vishnu that extend far into the sky as far as the eye reaches. |
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The Lord is one but He attains the three states of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as He works out the creation, existence and merging. |
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Even the Ayurvedic acharyas prescribe the chanting of the Vishnu Sahasranamam for getting the physical-oral-psychological peacefulness and for curing diseases. |
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Most Hindus revere and adore the many manifestations of the Divine as Siva, Vishnu, Rama, Krishna or Durga even as they focus on an ishta devata, a favorite Deity. |
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I noticed that my three main characters, Sarita, Karun and Jaz, formed a trinity just like Vishnu, Shiva, and Devi. |
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They worship the Supreme Being variously as Vishnu, Brahma, Shiva, or Shakti, depending upon the sect. |
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You see here in a dismantled state, somewhat in the way Henri MAUGER found it in 1935, this colossal image, probably a representation of Vishnu, with the eight arms, being dismantled. |
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Hindu mythology also tells about an Avatar of the God Vishnu in the form of a fish who warned Manu of a terrible flood. |
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The scene refers to an episode from the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic of which Vishnu, appearing in the guise of his avatar Krishna, is one of the heroes. |
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In normal times, according to Vishnu Sharma, a 36-year-old resident, he and his family receive, at unpredictable times, around an hour and a half of muddy piped water each week. |
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Initially, in a generalized outline of the Precambrian history of the region, the Vishnu Schist was upraised, folded, and metamorphosed and then slowly eroded and worn down to a flat surface. |
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His counter part Vishnu is mystical, enchanting and charming. |
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Yet another deals with the trimurti, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, in terms that suggest metaphors for chemical process. |
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According to Hindu tradition, the king is the avatar of Vishnu, destroyer of demons, who was born to be the defender of the people. |
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In Vishnu Purana, Vaivasvata, also known as Sraddhadeva or Satyavrata, was the king of Dravida before the great flood. |
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During this period of Manu, Lord Vishnu took birth from the womb of Aditi, the wife of Kashyapa. |
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Devotees also believe that every day the devatas offer their prayers to Lord Vishnu on the doors of Vaikuntha. |
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As I walked back to the guesthouse, I couldn't help hoping that his prayers included a plea to Vishnu to save Majuli from the Brahmaputra before it is too late. |
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Vaishnavism is the devotional religious tradition that worships Vishnu and his avatars, particularly Krishna and Rama. |
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Well-known Indian painters Narayan Shridhar Bendre and Muqbool Fida Husain attended the Vishnu Deolalikar Art School in Indore, one of the oldest art schools in the country. |
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Later Vaishnavas prefer to identify the icon with Shesha, the serpent bed of Vishnu. |
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In Brahmanism, we find the two deities, Shiva, who has three eyes and eight arms, and Vishnu. |
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Vishnu has been worshipped for more than 2,000 years throughout India, and today, his devotees, known as Vaishnavas, can be found the world over. |
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The consummation of the age will be accomplished by Kalki, the final avatar, or incarnation, of Vishnu, and will be followed by the creation of a new age, the Krita yuga, a golden era of righteousness and peace. |
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Ram Charan, Manchu Vishnu, Manchu Manoj, Kajal Aggarwal, Ravi Teja, Ramanaidu and Sai Kumar are among others who attended the function. |
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Since the 15th century, the followers of local saint-scholar Srimanta Sankardeva, who venerate the god Vishnu, have been building monasteries, or satras, here. |
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Both of them were objectified on the surface of Vishnu, the background. |
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The god Harihara evolved from syncretic tendencies within Brahmanism and became a major deity, offering the faithful the dual protection of Vishnu and Shiva. |
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Here Vishnu has four arms and holds his usual attributes: the chakra in his upper left hand, the conch in his lower left hand and the mace in his upper left hand. |
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So is Krishna, who demonstrated creativity like the creator Brahma, protection like the preserver Vishnu, and annihilator like the annihilator Siva. |
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In the Puranas, Shesha is said to hold all the planets of the Universe on his hoods and to constantly sing the glories of Vishnu from all his mouths. |
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Bhakti ideas centered around loving devotion to Vishnu and Shiva with songs and music, were pioneered in this period by the Alvars and Nayanars of South India. |
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The Gupta period produced scholars such as Kalidasa, Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Vishnu Sharma, and Vatsyayana who made great advancements in many academic fields. |
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Further afield, in Western India, the tussur silk moth, Antheraea mylitta, was considered a sacred animal, its wing spots seen as the chakra or discus of the god Vishnu. |
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