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  2. Varaha - Wikipedia

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    The deity Varaha derives its name from the Sanskrit word varaha (Devanagari: वराह, varāha) meaning "boar" or "wild boar". [1] The word varāha is from Proto-Indo-Iranian term warāȷ́ʰá, meaning boar. It is thus related to Avestan varāza, Kurdish beraz, Middle Persian warāz, and New Persian gorāz (گراز), all meaning "wild ...

  3. Varahi - Wikipedia

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    The Devi Purana paradoxically calls Varahi the mother of Varaha (Varahajanani) as well as Kritantatanusambhava, who emerges from Kritantatanu.Kritantatanu means "death personified" and could be an attribute of Varaha or a direct reference to Yama, the god of death. [11]

  4. Varaha Purana - Wikipedia

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    The Varaha Purana (Sanskrit: वराह पुराण, Varāha Purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text from the Puranas genre of literature in Hinduism. [1] It belongs to the Vaishnavism literature corpus praising Narayana ( Vishnu ), but includes chapters dedicated to praising and centered on Shiva and Shakti (goddesses it calls Brahmi, Vaishnavi ...

  5. List of legendary creatures in Hindu mythology - Wikipedia

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    Varaha Avatar of Vishnu kills Hiranyakshan. Emūsha - In the Brāhmana, a boar which raised up the earth, represented as black and with a hundred arms (probably the germ of the Varaha avatara). Varaha is the third avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu in the form of a boar. Varahi is one of the Matrikas. With the head of a sow, Varahi is the consort ...

  6. Baraha Kshetra - Wikipedia

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    Lord Vishnu, by taking the incarnation of Varaha or Baraha protected the earth from being submerged into Patala (underworld) with his long tusk. Then the Lord sat with his wife Laxmi at the bank of Koshi River in the lap of Himalayas and hills. So, the place bore its name after that event.

  7. Avatar - Wikipedia

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    Fiji Hindi; Français; Gaeilge; ... The related verb avatarana is, states Paul Hacker, used with double meaning, ... Varaha: The boar avatar. He rescues Bhumi, the ...

  8. Varaha Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    Varaha means boar, specifically referring to the incarnation of Vishnu as a boar in Indian mythology. [1] The term Upanishad means it is knowledge or "hidden doctrine" text that belongs to the corpus of Vedanta literature presenting the philosophical concepts of Hinduism and considered the highest purpose of its scripture, the Vedas. [2]

  9. Hiranyaksha - Wikipedia

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    The boar avatar Varaha, the third incarnation of Vishnu, stands in front of the decapitated body of the asura Hiranyaksha. Some of the Puranas present Hiranyaksha as the son of Diti and Kashyapa. [5] Having performed austerities to propitiate Brahma, Hiranyaksha received the boon of invulnerability of meeting his death by neither any god, man ...