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The Varaha legend is alluded to in the following epithets: Mahibharta ("husband of the earth"), Dharanidara ("one who upholds the earth", may also refer to other Vishnu forms - Kurma, Shesha or Vishnu in general), Maha-varaha ("the great boar"), Kundara ("One who pierced the earth"), Brihadrupa ("who takes form of a boar"), Yajnanga ("whose ...
When Vishnu appears before them, and the gatekeepers request Vishnu to lift the curse of the Kumaras, Vishnu says that the curse of the Kumaras cannot be reversed. Instead, he gives Jaya and Vijaya two options. The first option is to take seven births on earth as devotees of Vishnu, while the second is to take three births as his staunch enemies.
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 ...
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]
Mulugu Papayaradhya, an 18th-century Telugu poet, is regarded as the first poet to translate the Devi Bhagavata Purana into Telugu. [100] Tirupati Venkata Kavulu also translated this purana into Telugu language in 1896 entitled Devi Bhagavatamu. They have divided the purana into 6 skandas and themselves published it in 1920. [101]
According to later post-Vedic texts such as the Brahma Purana and Vishnu Purana, he was the son of Bhudevi, [6] fathered either by the Varaha incarnation of Vishnu. [7] He is claimed as one who established Pragjyotisha. He was slain by Krishna and Satyabhama. His son Bhagadatta—of Mahabharata fame—succeeded him.
Vishnu reincarnated as Srinivasa (or presented himself after penance in the ant-hill) as the son of the elderly woman Vakula Devi, who was the rebirth of Yashoda the deity Krishna's foster-mother. Unhappy that she had been unable to attend Krishna's wedding to Rukmini , the deity promised that he would be reborn to her as a son, as Srinivasa.
After a while, Vishnu kills Hiranyaksha, donning a Varaha avatar. Learning it, his brother Hiranyakashipu, a ferocious, performs a vast penance. Exploiting it, Indra kidnaps his pregnant wife, Leelavathi, to destroy his heir. Narada safeguards her and sculpts Prahlada in her womb as an ardent devotee of Vishnu.