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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in Treta, sacrifice in Dvapara and in kaliyuga it is the practise of
making gifts that counts.
In the Kali age, thus, the righteousness will be at the lowest
web and unrighteousness will predominate, disease and pestilence
will spread among the people, then the gods would go to the milk
ocean and suplicate Lord Visnu with hymns of praise propitatied
by prayer and invocations in the densly populated village of
Sambhala. The Lord would take his birth as the king Kalkin, the
son of Visnuyasas seated upon a horse, with a sword in his hand
he would exterminate the Mlecchas.
Then after having exterminated all the mlecchas, the cause of
destruction and depredation of the earth, Kalkin, the partial
manifestation of the Supreme Lord would perform the sacrifice
Bahukancana, after establishing righteousness. He would ascend
to heaven.
With regard to this incarnation of Kalkin the following passage
is noteworthy.
"The Kalki will be in a brahmana body, and his main work
will be the bringing back of the Satyayuga, and the estblishment
of one caste, the Brahmana. For by the time he comes, all caste
distinctions will have become wholly confused, and it will be his
great work to merge them all into one class, to unify the Vedas, to
purify Dharma and reestablish righteousness. This process of caste
