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Essay name: Vaishnava Myths in the Puranas

Author: Kum. Geeta P. Kurandwad
Affiliation: Karnatak University / Department of Sanskrit

The essay studies the Vaishnava Myths in the Puranas by exploring the significance of the ten principal incarnations of Lord Vishnu as depicted in various ancient Indian texts like the Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas. The research also investigates the social, political, philosophical, and religious impact.

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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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Preface The present research work in the field of Vaisnava purāṇic literature, brings out multi-dimensional significance of ten major incarnations of Lord Visṇu. However, different Vaiṣṇava incarnations have been dealth with in various original sources like Vedas, Upanisads and the Purāṇas. At the same time, it should taken note of that such descriptions of Vaiṣṇava incarnations are alike, in some respects in different sources. Yet they embrace a single central theme i.e., over-all supremacy of Lord Viṣṇu. With this objective, the thesis brings to light variant descriptions. It serves another purpose of discovering the impact of various incarnations on social conditions then. Verily it is a comprehensive note that each and every incarnation of Lord Visṇu has a unique emphasis on reviving social, political, philosophical and religious set up among the people then at large. Such purāṇic descriptions of forms of Lord Viṣṇu have been made alive by means of archeological econographic relics with untiring efforts by ancient kings of various dynasties beginning from Gupta period. These historical evidences reveal the truth of popularity of Vaiṣṇava religion during the reign of those kings. All these informations with original fervor are brought here into a homogenious whole in a systematic way. Such work of difficult task was successfully accomplished due to kind and generous encouragement of my research guide, 2 V. D. &,

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