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VISHNU (Sanskrit, " the worker," from root vish, "to work ") , a solar deity, in later Hindu mythology a god of the first importance, one of the supreme trinity with Brahma and Siva, but in the Rig Veda only a minor deity. In the Vedic scriptures his only anthropomorphic characteristics are the frequently mentioned strides that he takes, and his being a youth vast in body
Vishnu is adored by the Vishnavite sects as the equal or even the superior of Brahma, and is styled the Preserver. He is represented with four arms, and black in colour; in one hand he holds a club and in the others a shell, a discus and a lotus respectively. He rides on the Garuda, half man and half bird, having the head, wings, beak
body
white
character as preserver of men Vishnu has from time to time become incarnate to rid the world of some great
BRAHMANISM
See A. A. Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (Strassburg, 1897) ; Sir W. Muir, Original
Brahmanism
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