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| cheif of gods, rain god, rides elephant, lightning |
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| Fire god, rides ram, source of energy |
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| secondary gods of singing and dancing, male and female, goes between worlds |
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| drink of immortality squeezed from creepers |
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| god of cosmic order, rta, the cosmic power. makes things happen to bad people |
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| cosmic order, explain why things happen, static principles exist to which everything works |
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| sanction existing traditions |
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| four collections of sacred prayers, books of knowledge |
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| rgveda, samaveda, yajurveda, atharvaveda |
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| collection of melodious chants |
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| collection of sacred formulae |
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| collection of magical formulae, myths and legends |
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| migrated to india from central asiain 2000 bc |
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| god of sustenance, lies on a cobra, flower comes out of naval, opens and gives life, closes, destruction, goes back in, peace |
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| Vishnu as a fish, world was being torn up by storm, vishnu appeared as a fish after being helped by man and puts people in boat on back and saves them |
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| vishnu as tortoise, ocean needed to be stirred in order to create soma for the gods and demons to stop fighting |
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| the boar incarnation of vishnu,lifted the earth with tusk, killed brahma |
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| Man lion form of vishnu, kills hiranyakasipu (demon) because hec an only be killed by man-lion |
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| Dwarf form of vishnu, pushes demon king bali into underworld with one of his three steps |
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| vishnu with the axe, kills ksatriyas because they were opressing brahmanas. kills him 21 times |
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| vishnu come in form of son and kills ravana ( demon king) |
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| Blue god of vishnu, represents the identity, survival, and victory of common people over there king |
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| distract the people who did not believe in buddhism and bring about their destruction |
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| yet to come of vishnu, man on horse who will save us all |
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| good and evil, interaction between divine and human beings, social and individual dharma, human weakness |
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| Demon in form of golden deer |
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| bird that tried to save sita |
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| Big monkey, son of the wind god, could jump real far, smell really good, set fire to city, throw mountains , narrates ramas story as well |
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| Daughter of Dasaratha, talks Dasaratha into putting Rama into forest |
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