Rishabha (Hinduism)
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Rishabha (Hinduism)
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In Hinduism, Rishabha is one of the twenty-four avatars of Vishnu in the Bhagavata Purana. Some scholars identify this avatar to be the same as the first tirthankara of Jainism, Rishabhanatha. Shaiva texts like the Linga Purana regard Rishabha to be among the 28 avatars of Shiva. Rishabha is also found in Vedic literature, where it means the "bull" and is an epithet for Rudra (Shiva). According to John E. Cort and other scholars, there is a considerable overlap between Jain and Hindu Vaishnava t
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One of the avatars of Vishnu in the Bhagavata Purana
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