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The word Dashavatara derives from daśa, meaning "ten", and avatāra, roughly equivalent to "incarnation". The list of included avatars varies across sects and regions, particularly with respect to the inclusion of Balarama (brother of Krishna) or Gautama Buddha. In traditions that omit Krishna, he often replaces Vishnu as the source of all ...
The temple site is in Deogarh, also spelled Devgarh (Sanskrit: "fort of gods" [13]), in the Betwa River valley at the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.It is an ancient Hindu temple below the Deogarh hill, towards the river, about 500 metres (1,600 ft) from a group of three dozen Jain temples with dharmashala built a few centuries later, and the Deogarh Karnali fort built in early ...
Dashavatar or Dashavtar generally refers to Dashavatara, the ten incarnations of the god Vishnu in Hindu mythology. Dashavatar may also refer to: Dasavathaaram , released in Hindi as Dashavtar , a 2008 Indian Tamil film starring Kamal Hassan
Though its Hindi version was an average success, the film was a massive success at the box-office, grossing US$ 46 million worldwide against a budget of US$ 14 million, becoming the highest grossing movie in Tamil cinema at the time, also known as the Industry Hit. Dasavathaaram is the first Tamil movie to surpass ₹ 200 crore worldwide box ...
Pandurang Shastri Athavale (19 October 1920 – 25 October 2003), also known as Dada /Dadaji ("elder brother"), was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, [2] and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar (Swadhyaya family) in 1954. [3]
Matsya (Sanskrit: मत्स्य, lit. 'fish') is the fish avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. [2] Often described as the first of Vishnu's ten primary avatars, Matsya is described to have rescued the first man, Manu, from a great deluge. [3]
Dashavatar cards feature ten suits and twelve ranks, with one of the ten avatars of Lord Vishnu on each suit. Similar to most other Ganjifa cards, the twelve ranks are made up of ten pip cards and two court cards, the King (called Raja) and Vizier (called Pradhan). Both court cards depict the same avatar for its suit, but one is differentiated ...
In the Kiswahili language "tamasha" means show or festival. In Malayalam language, tamasha means joke. In the Bengali language, tamasha (or in some dialects tamsha) means joke or messing around. In the Chuvash language "tamasha" means distress or curiosity, brings amazement effect into dialogue, and also means fun of silly situation in theatre ...