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According to Swami Parmeshwaranand, although the avatars of Vishnu are countless in number and include hermits, Manus, sons of Manus, and other Devas (Hindu Deity), due to a curse by the Rishi Bhrigu, most are only partial (i.e. incomplete) incarnations. The Dashavatara is a list of the ten complete (i.e., full) incarnations. [6]
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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.
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.
Then at the end of a thousand years Aditi gave birth to Vamana, Vishnu, Acyuta, Hari, the lord, who was the great lord of all the worlds, who had Srivatsa and Kaustubha on his chest, whose lustre was like that of the full moon, who was handsome, whose eyes were like lotuses, whose body was very short... who could be known by means of the Vedas ...
In Hinduism, Rishabha is one of the twenty-four avatars of Vishnu in the Bhagavata Purana. [1] [2] [3] Some scholars identify this avatar to be the same as the first tirthankara of Jainism, Rishabhanatha. [3] [4] Shaiva texts like the Linga Purana regard Rishabha to be among the 28 avatars of Shiva. [5]