Dashavatara
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dashavatara-213-519532
title:
Dashavatara
text:
,holding the sankha and chakra, the half-brother avatars of Vishnu, are the earliest representations of avatars on the non-Hindu coinage of Agathocles, an Indo-Greek ruler, circa 185-170 BCE The Dashavatara are the ten primary avatars of Vishnu, a principal Hindu god. Vishnu is said to descend in the form of an avatar to restore cosmic order. The word Dashavatara derives from daśa, meaning "ten", and avatāra, roughly equivalent to "incarnation". The list of included avatars varies across sects a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ten major avatars of the Hindu god Vishnu
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashavatara
date created:
2008-04-19T14:14:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T12:22:11Z
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