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Several Hindu deities are often portrayed with four arms in their iconography, featured in Hindu literature. The iconography of four arms is regarded to symbolise divinity and power, as well as dominion over the four quarters of the universe. [1] Chaturbhuja is also primarily employed as an epithet for the preserver deity, Vishnu. [2] [3]
Vishnu iconography shows him with dark blue, blue-grey or black coloured skin, and as a well-dressed jewelled man. He is typically shown with four arms, but two-armed representations are also found in Hindu texts on artworks. [26] [27]
Visvarupa has three heads: a human (centre), a lion (the head of Narasimha, the man-lion avatar of Vishnu) and a boar (the head of Varaha, the boar avatar of Vishnu) and four arms. Multiple beings and Vishnu's various avatars emerge from the main figure, accompanying half of the 38 cm (high) X 47 cm (wide) stela.
Kaumodaki (Sanskrit: कौमोदकी, romanized: Kaumodakī, lit. 'captivator of the mind') [1] is the gadā (mace) of the Hindu deity Vishnu. [2] Vishnu is often depicted holding the Kaumodaki in one of his four hands; his other attributes are the chakra, the conch and the lotus.
Varaha has four arms, two of which hold the Sudarshana Chakra (discus) and Panchajanya (conch), while the other two hold a gada (mace), a sword, or a lotus or one of them makes the varadamudra (gesture of blessing). Varaha may be depicted with all of Vishnu'a attributes in his four hands: the Sudarshana Chakra, the Panchajanya, the gada and the ...
Brahma and Vishnu are both four-armed and hold their front hands folded (in anjali mudra). In his back hands, the four-headed Brahma holds a sruk (a large wooden ladle used to offer ghee in fire-sacrifice) and a kamandalu (water-pot), while Vishnu—who is adorned with a kirita-mukuta (conical crown)—holds a shankha (conch) and chakra ...
Nandaka (Sanskrit: नन्दक, lit. 'source of joy') [1] or Nandaki is the sword of the Hindu god Vishnu.Nandaka is generally depicted in images where Vishnu is represented with more than his usual four arms.
'four emanations'), is an ancient Indian religious concept initially focusing on the four earthly emanations of the Supreme deity Nārāyaṇa, [1] and later Viṣṇu. [4] The first of these emanations is the hero-god Vāsudeva , with the other emanations being his kinsmen presented as extensions of Vāsudeva himself. [ 1 ]