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[3] [7] [8] [9] Some lists mention Krishna as the eighth avatar and the Buddha as the ninth avatar, [9] while others, such as the Paripāṭal [citation needed] (c. 3rd-4th CE), which is the fifth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature, and the Yatindramatadipika, a 17th-century summary of Sri Vaishnava doctrine, [8 ...
The god Varaha is also called referred by the epithet sukara (Sanskrit सूकर, sūkara), meaning 'wild boar', which also used in the Rigveda (e.g. 7.55.4) and Atharvaveda (e.g. 2.27.2). [8] The word literally means "the animal that makes a peculiar nasal sound in respiration"; in the Bhagavata Purana , Varaha is referred to Sukara, when ...
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
Jayadeva was an 11th-century Sanskrit poet and lyricist from present-day India. The works of Jayadeva have had a profound influence on Indian culture. They form the basis of the east Indian classical dance form, Odissi as well as traditional classical music of the state, Odissi music and have strongly influenced the Bharatanatyam classical dance as well as Carnatic music.
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 ...
Mahima Parkash, Sarup Das Bhalla: This book was completed by Sarup Das, who belonged to lineage of Guru Amar Das, in 1776. He had access to the complete Dasam Granth and He mentions that many texts including 4 Vedas, 6 Purans, Chaubis Avtar and 404 chartiras were among various texts translated by scholars to Gurmukhi script.
Krishnavatara VIII: Book of kurukshetra starts with the news that Krishna's father vasudava has been taken by Salwa of Saubha, so he sent his son Pradhyumna to deal with Salwa. Salwa's minister Vajranabhi imprisoned Pradhyumna by order of Salwa and Vajranabhi married his daughter Prabhavati to Pradhyumna .
Then, the Nabapatrika ritual during Durga Puja involves tying the branches of eight plants with their leaves with a banana plant (naba meaning 'nine', and patrika meaning 'leaves'). [ 7 ] The nine forms