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Madhava (Sanskrit: माधव, IAST: Mādhava) is one of the primary epithets of Vishnu and Krishna. The word Mādhava in Sanskrit is a vṛddhi derivation of the word Madhu (Sanskrit: मधु), which means honey. It is a title of Krishna, referring to his lineage as 'he who appeared the Madhu dynasty'. [1] Vishnu, the bearer of the epithet
Madhava Vidyaranya, Advaita saint and brother of Sayana; Venkata Madhava, 10th to 12th century commentator of the Rigveda; Madhavdeva, 16th-century proponent of Ekasarana dharma, neo-Vaishnavism of Assam; relating to springtime; the first month of spring, see Chaitra; Madhava or Madhava-kara, an Indian physician of the 7th or early 8th century
Thiruthevanartthogai or Madhava Perumal Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu located in Tirunangur, a village in the outskirts of Sirkaḻi in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture , the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar ...
Madhava Varma II was the most powerful ruler of Vishnukundina dynasty. The reign of Madhava Varma II (c. 440 – c. 460) was a golden age in the history of the Vishnukundinas. The Vishnukundina dynasty reached its greatest territorial extent under Madhava Varma II. He defeated Prithvishena II, the powerful ruler of Vakataka dynasty. Vakataka ...
It is a stone temple dedicated to Vishnu, and the best known, most frequented monument in Hajo. The temple enshrines an image of Hayagriva Madhava (Vishnu as part-man-part-horse avatar). Some regional Buddhists have long believed that the Hayagriva Madhava temple is a part of their sacred Tsmach'og-gron geography because it is where the Buddha ...
Neela Madhava. 2 languages. ... Nīlamādhava) is a manifestation of Vishnu and Krishna featured in Hindu literature, with its origin in Odia tradition. [1] ...
American Indologist Philip Lutgendorf says, "According to Madhvacharya whenever Vishnu incarnates on earth, Mukhya Prana/Vayu accompanies him and aids his work of preserving dharma. Hanuman the friend and helper of Rama in the Treta Yuga , the strongman Bhima in Mahabharata , set at the end of Dvapara Yuga and Madhva in the Kali Yuga .
Vishnu, for example, is the source of creator deity Brahma in the Vaishnavism-focussed Purana texts. Vishnu's iconography and a Hindu myth typically shows Brahma being born in a lotus emerging from his navel, who then is described as creating the world [107] or all the forms in the universe, but not the primordial universe itself. [108]