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Vishnu is said to descend in the form of an avatar to restore cosmic order. [1] The word Dashavatara derives from daśa, meaning "ten", and avatāra, roughly equivalent to "incarnation". The list of included avatars varies across sects and regions, particularly with respect to the inclusion of Balarama (brother of Krishna) or Gautama Buddha. In ...
[10] [26] The ten major Vishnu avatars are mentioned in the Agni Purana, the Garuda Purana and the Bhagavata Purana. [33] [34] The ten best known avatars of Vishnu are collectively known as the Dashavatara (a Sanskrit compound meaning "ten avatars"). Five different lists are included in the Bhagavata Purana, where the difference is in the ...
The Dashavatara is a list of the so-called Vibhavas, or '10 [primary] Avatars' of Vishnu. The Agni Purana , Varaha Purana , Padma Purana , Linga Purana , Narada Purana , Garuda Purana , and Skanda Purana all provide matching lists.
Learning about it, lord Vishnu, urged by Bharadvaja, came to the sacrificial spot, assuming the form of a dwarf. Wearing a black-coloured deer-skin, and sacred thread and holding a Palasa rod. the Brahmana (formed Vishnu) with matted hair and besmeared with ashes, came thither reciting the Vedas .
The Bhagavata Purana lists Kurma the eleventh avatar of Vishnu in the list of 22 avatars. [71] The Garuda Purana lists him as the eleventh of 20 avatars, [87] elsewhere he is mentioned as the second of the Dashavatara. [88] The Vishnu Sahasranama version from the Garuda Purana mentions Kurma as an epithet of Vishnu. [89]
'Rama with an axe'), also referred to as Rama Jamadagnya, Rama Bhargava and Virarama, [3] is the sixth avatar among the Dashavatara of the preserver god Vishnu in Hinduism. [4] He is destroyer of the evil on this planet. Shiva advised him to go and liberate the Mother Earth from felons, ill-behaved people, extremists, demons and those blind ...
Matsya is generally enlisted as the first avatar of Vishnu, especially in Dashavatara (ten major avatars of Vishnu) lists. [61] However, that was not always the case. Some lists do not list Matsya as first, and only later texts start the trend of Matsya as the first avatar. [34] In the Garuda Purana listing of the Dashavatara, Matsya is the first.
The Garga Samhita states that a shaktyavesha avatara is one of the six forms of incarnation of the deity Krishna, identified with Vishnu. The purpose of such an incarnation is regarded to be to enter a jiva (living being) in order to perform a given mission, after which the deity departs from this form.