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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Bhagavan Hari, namely, Krsna belonging to Yadu dynasty and
Krsna (Arjuna) belonging to the Kuru dynasty have come here to
remove the affliction of the earth.
Jiva Goswami interprets the verse in the following peculiar
manner:
Two parts of Hari, the source of all avataras, which are known
as Narayana, have entered Krsna and Arjuna.
(7) Brahma extols Krsna as Naryana in the Bhagavata. Krsna,
are you not actually Narayana, since you are the soul of all
embodied beings, the witness of all creatures?
Jiva remarks here that Krsna is equated with Narayana not
for the reason that Narayana had descended as Krsna, but for
another reason, and that is to show that Narayana and Krsna are
equal in prowess.
(8) According to the Bhagavata, Garga said to Nanda. Your
son is a compeer of Narayana.
Jiva Gosvami interprets it differently. According to him, Garga
means to say that Narayana is a compeer of your son.
(9) Having crossed even the Lokaloka mountain, Sri Krsna
once escorted Arjuna to Bhuma Purusa (Visnu) to bring back the
children of a brahmana of Dvaraka. Both Krsna and Arjuna bowed
to Bhuma. Desirous of seeing you both, I had the sons of the
