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.
Chapter 4 - Significance of Vaishnava Myths
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become a woman. People will call you the wife of Ravana, a Vaisya,
in Vrindavana you will remain separated fom Krsna for a century
of years. this was the circumstance narrated in the Brahma
Vaivarta Purana which made it obligatory on both Radha and
Krsna to descend upon this earth. Radha come down in response
to Sudhama's curse and Krsna did so under Radha's words.
These curses already been pronounced before the duties
approached Lord Krsna to request him to descend upon the earth
to redeem it from the atrocities perpetracted by the demons. The
Lord acceded to the duties request and planned a rogramme for
his sajourn on the earth. the Lord asked the cowheards and
cowherdesses to proceed to Vraja of nandal, and thereafter he
wished Radha also to go to the residence of Vrasabhanu to be born
as a daughter of his wife Kalavati.
It is read in the ninth book of the Devibhagavata also, that
Lord Krsna is the prime cause of all that exists. 278 Krsna is lovely
to look at in his eternal youth. 279 He divided his form into two parts.
The right side male, and the left a female. The couple got engaged
in a Rasa dance. After prolonged sport, the goddess gave birth to a
golden child. The mother cast the child in the cosmic water which
was unfathomable. from the tip of the tongue of that goddess
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स्वेच्छामय� सर्वरूपं सर्वकारणकारणम् �
[svecchāmaya� sarvarūpa� sarvakāraṇakāraṇam |
] Devibhagavata Purana IX.2.16
किशोरवयस� शन्त� सर्वकान्तं परात्परम� �
[kiśoravayasa� śanta� sarvakānta� parātparam |
] Ibid IX. 2.17
