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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.

Chapter 4 - Significance of Vaishnava Myths

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dhūmrabha, air. In this connection balāhaka, or Valāhaka, cloud may
also be considered. The almost exclusive use of the suffix-bha, to
denote animal names might have suggested the secondary meaning
of a boar. 128
The fight of Varāha-Viṣṇu and demon Hiraṇyākṣa resolved
itself into a conflict between the cloud god and demon drought. The
association of the cloud with erotic sentiments may give rise to the
conception of the boar.
5. THE CONCEPT OF NṚSIMHA AVATĀRA
The Nṛsimha is the fifth among the ten incarnations of Lord Viṣṇu.
However the Story of Nrsimha incarnation appears to have its root
in the Namuci legend read in the Satapatha Brāhmaṇa It runs thus:
By means of Sura (liquor) Namuci the asura carried off Indra's
strength the soma drink. He hastened up to Aśvins and Sarasvati
crying, 'I have sworn to Namuci, “I will slay the neither by night, or
nor by day, neither with staff, nor with bow, neither with the palm
of my
hand nor with the fist, neither with the dry, nor with the moist
and yet he has taken these things from me; Seek ye to bring these
things back from me; Asrins and Saraswati after securing a promise
for a share in those things poured out foam of water as thunder bolt,
Saying; It is neither dry nor moist, and when and when the night
128. Wackernagel; Altindische Gramatic, Part I.
Q: Banikant Kakati, Viṣṇuite myths and legends; Sri Tarini Das Ltd., Gauhati
1952, p. 128-129.

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