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VISHNU (Sanskrit, " the worker," from root vish, "to work ")

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 130 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
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
 . His essential feature is the three strides (vi-kram) with which he traverses the universe. Two of these steps are visible to men, but the third or highest is beyond mortal sight. These steps are symbolic of the rising, culminating and setting of the sun, or alternatively the course of the solar deity through the three divisions of the universe. To-day
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
  and talons of an eagle, and human
body
  and limbs, its face being
white
 , its wings red and its body golden. In his
character
  as preserver of men
Vishnu
  has from time to time become incarnate to rid the world of some
great
  evil (see also
BRAHMANISM
  and HINDUISM),
See A. A. Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (Strassburg, 1897) ; Sir W. Muir,
Original
  Sanskrit Texts, iv. 63-298; Sir M. Monier-Williams,
Brahmanism
  and Hinduism, iii. v. vi.


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