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The Hayagriva Stotra is regarded to be the first devotional composition of Vedanta Desika. According to the Sri Vaishnava narrative, the philosopher once propitiated Garuda, the mount of Vishnu, upon the hillock of Oshada located in Tiruvanthipuram, Cuddalore.
Brahma then starts narrating the various mantras that are used in Hayagriva's worship. [15] [16] The first mantra salutes Hayagriva as Vishnu, the ruler of knowledge. He is praised beyond the material universe and as a saviour. The second mantra identifies Hayagriva as the manifestation of the three Vedas — Rigveda, Yajurveda and Samaveda ...
Hayagriva (Sanskrit: हयग्रीव IAST hayagrīva, lit. ' horse-necked one ' ) is a Hindu deity, the horse-headed avatar of Vishnu . The purpose of this incarnation was to slay a danava also named Hayagriva (A descendant of Kashyapa and Danu), who had the head of a horse and the body of a human.
The Garuda Purana states that Matsya slew Hayagriva and rescued the Vedas as well as the Manu. [50] In another instance, it states that Vishnu as Matsya killed the demon Pralamba in the reign of the third Manu - Uttama. [51] The Narada Purana states that the demon Hayagriva (son of Kashyapa and Diti) seized the Vedas of the mouth of Brahma ...
Hayagriva ("having the neck of a horse", IAST: Hayagrīva) is an important deity in Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. He originated as a yaksha attendant of Avalokiteśvara ( Guanyin ) in India , [ 1 ] and was assimilated into the ritual practices of early Buddhism .
Hayagriva is an incarnation of Vishnu with the head of a horse and is held to be the storehouse of knowledge. Agasthya is one of the sages of yore and one of the stars of the constellation Saptarishi. At the request of Agasthya, Hayagriva is said to have taught him the thousand holiest names of Lalita.
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Vedanta Desika (1268–1369 [1]), also rendered Vedanta Desikan, Swami Vedanta Desika, and Thoopul Nigamantha Desikan, was an Indian polymath who wrote philosophical as well as religious and poetical works in several languages, including Sanskrit, Manipravaḷam (a Sanskritised form of literary Tamil), Tamil and Prakrit. [2]