Sunday, March 2, 2014

Vishnavism



Vaishnavism is one of the three traditions within Hinduism who worships lord Vishnu as their main deity. Lord Vishnu is also well known as Narayana and Hari. Lord Vishnu is usually described blue in color and having four arms. He is depicted as holding lotus flower in lower left hand, a couch in upper left hand, a gada in lower right and sudarshana chakara in upper right hand. People worship lord Vishnu directly or either in ten forms. The most famous forms of his avatars are Rama and Krishna. These ten forms are well known as dashavatram and among the ten, nine have occurred in the past and at the end of kali yugam his last form will happen as lord kalki. 

Avatars
  1. Matsya.
  2. Kurma.
  3. Varaha.
  4. Narasimha.
  5. Vamana.
  6. Parashurama.
  7. Rama.
  8. Krishna.
  9. Vishishtadvaita.
  10. Kalki.
Some alternate names of Vishnu:
  • Narayana
  • Venkateshwara.
  • Dasavtharam

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