Origin and Development in Visnu Cult - Hardcover

Muralidhar Mahanty

9788177020632: Origin and Development in Visnu Cult

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8177020633 ISBN 13: 9788177020632

Publisher: Pratibha Prakashan, 2003

Language: English
Pages: 343 (48 B/W Illustrations)
About the Book

The treatise deals with the concept which men entertain the divine or supernatural powers on the one hand and on the other, that sense of dependence of human being on those powers which find expression in various forms of worship.

Visnu is a great God of the Hindu Pantheon. In the Hindu religion, Visnu, though a deity of highest importance in the Braha-manas, epics and Puranas, occupies but a subordinate position in the Rgveda.

In the Rgveda, He is celebrated in several hymns. His anthropomorphic traits are frequently mentioned.

Visnu appeared on earth in several forms. He took incarnations such as Matsya (fish), Karma, (tortoise), Varaha (boar), Narasimha (man-lion), Vamana (dwarf), Paragurama (Rama with axe), Rama (Raghava Rama), Krsna-Balararna, Buddha and Kalki as a saviour of the mankind or as a destroyer of demons or evil forces.

Sri or Laksmi either in her individual capacity or dependant as consort of Visnu has gained unprecedented popularity with other goddesses. She as Visnu Sakti established herself among the vaisnavas.

The role played by Visnu in the religious life of the people of India ever the ages has been alienated in this volume in a lucid manner.

About the Author

Shri Muralidhar Mohanty was born in a small village of Bhandaripokhari, Orissa in the year 1931. An avid reader of ancient literature and vedic culture during his school days he joined Department of Culture of Government of Orissa at an early age. The author had spent most of his life in the temple city of Bhubaneswar which is an intriguing amalgam of the old and the new, a place of fusion of traditional Indian art in its many temples and monuments. How-ever the vedic culture that domi

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