Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Vishnu with Shesha Naga-ancient Bronze artefact in Government Museum Mathura. The Bhagavata Purana equates Shesha and Balarama: The foremost manifestation of Lord Vishnu is Sankarṣana, who is known as Ananta. He is the origin of all incarnations within this material world.
Vishnu sleeps on the coils of Ananta (the World Snake). He will awake for the next cycle of creation which heralds the destruction of all things. Sculpture. From India, c. 14th century CE. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. It is one of many of the names of Vishnu. [2]
Vishnu sleeps on the coils of Ananta (Shesha, the World Snake). He will awake for the next cycle of creation which heralds the destruction of all things. 14th century sculpture from India, housed in National Museum of Scotland. One of the primordial beings of creation, Shesha, or Adishesha, is the king of the serpents in Hindu mythology. [143]
The snake on whom Vishnu is in yoga nidra (Ananta shayana). [8] Takshaka is mentioned as a King of the Nagas. ... Mandodari was the queen consort of Ravana.
A temple devoted to Nagaraja exists in Poojappura of the Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala, India. It is known as the Poojappura Nagarukavu Temple. The uniqueness of this temple is that here the family of the Nagaraja, including Nagaramma (queen of nagas), and Nagakanya (princess of the naga kingdom) are placed inside a single temple.
The central shrine of temple is most commonly referred as Peragam, while the smaller shrine where the image of the snake god Adishesha is houses is called Tiruürakam. As per tradition, Mahabali at the foot of Vamana, could not view the deity's vishvarupam, and requested him to manifest as a smaller form. Vishnu obliged, and appeared as a snake ...
Amrutha (Snake Princess, played by Deepika Das) lives in Takshaka Vana with her parents (the king and queen). Rudra (Arun), his friends and his brother Vishnu went there and killed Amrutha's parents for Naagamani.
The Vishnu image, under the open sky, occupies an area measuring 15.4 metres (51 ft) in length and 7 metres (23 ft) in width with a thickness of 0.7 metres (2 ft 4 in). [3] The image is of the Hindu god Vishnu in a reclining position (Anantashayana in Sanskrit, literally sleeping on the serpent Ananta). The image is carved out of natural rock ...