When the primordial twin sages, Nara and Narayana (Nara was born as the Pandava prince Arjuna and Narayana as Lord Krishna, later), were doing penance and meditating in the Badrinath region, Lord Indra became alarmed. He did not want them to acquire divine powers and become more powerful ...
4. Nara Narayana The two twin sage avatars of Lord Vishnu 5. Kapila The founder the Samkhya School of Philosophy 6. Dattatraya The Master of Yoga Dattatreya is also known as Trimurti. He is depicted as a saint with three heads, each representing Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, and six hands....
Jp. = Tenbu天部,Sanskrit = Deva Group. Like most deities in Japan’s Buddhist pantheon, the Tenbu originated fromHindumythology.But once these Hindu gods were incorporated into Buddhism, they became protectors of Buddhist Law (Dharmain Sanskrit) and givenbothandattributes. In most Japanese traditio...
Identified with Laksmi, name of the goddess of fortune and beauty frequently in the later mythology identified with Śrī and regarded as the wife of Visnu or Narayana, she sprang from the ocean with a lotus in her hand, whence she is also called Padmā, and is connected in other ways ...