![]() During the churning, Mount Mandara, which was being used as the churning rod, started to sink. Kurma – The Tortoise Illustration: Pratap Mulickĭepicted as a giant tortoise or a mixed form of human and tortoise, the Kurma avatar of Vishnu, took form during the Samudra Manthan incident in the Bhagavata Purana, where the devas and asuras started churning the ocean of milk in a bid to obtain the nectar of immortality or amrit. ![]() He asked Vaivasvata to bring one of every plant and animal species to the shore, and on the day of the great flood, he safely took all of them to a new world in a boat and saved them. In this avatar, Vishnu had warned the first man, Vaivasvata Manu, of a great flood which would end the three worlds. Matsya – The Fish Illustration: Pratap Mulickĭepicted as a giant fish or as a half-human torso connected to the rear half of a fish, this was the first of Vishnu’s dashavatar. ![]() Till date, he has appeared in nine of these forms. ![]() As per the Puranas, Vishnu was to appear in ten different forms known as the fabled dashavatar across the four dharmic ages of man also known as yugas. Whenever the balance between good and evil seemed to be weighing on the wrong side, Vishnu would descend on earth to restore cosmic order. Vishnu, the owner of the divine Kaumodaki, is the preserver of the universe.
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