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Vishnu is often depicted with four arms and is said to have a thousand names.
Vishnu = a Hindu divinity worshipped as the preserver of worlds
- In many Hindu denominations, Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver), and Shiva (the destroyer/transformer) represent the three primary aspects of the divine.
- There is the story of Vishnu incarnated as Vamana the dwarf.† (source)
- In Hasnapur Dida told stories of Vishnu the Preserver containing our world inside his potbellied stomach.† (source)
- A devotee of Lord Vishnu.† (source)
- You are now officially an avatar of Vishnu, whose teachings were misinterpreted by some of his more zealous followers.† (source)
- When the evening came, he made friends with barber's assistant, whom he had seen working in the shade of an arch in a building, whom he found again praying in a temple of Vishnu, whom he told about stories of Vishnu and the Lakshmi.† (source)
- Carol had difficulty enlisting Dad's interest while she lectured about the teachings of Vishnu, as he watched the White Sox games on television.† (source)
- He has more names than Vishnu.
- Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you, Richard Parker!† (source)
- Immediately Vishnu takes on his full cosmic size.† (source)
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- Vishnu preserve me, Allah protect me, Christ save me, I can't bear it!† (source)
- Before the sage could die of fright, Vishnu awoke and took him back into his mouth.† (source)
- Heaven is without one for the first time-as Vishnu rules, preserving.† (source)
- I have decided that Vishnu will have been the Buddha, for historical and theological purposes.† (source)
- Brahma stood, considered the mirrors, considered Vishnu.† (source)
- Mount of Vishnu, whose beak smashes chariots.† (source)
- After the space of three cigarettes, Vishnu cleared his throat.† (source)
- "Might it not be wise," asked Vishnu, "to ascertain the cause of this occurrence before proceeding?"† (source)
- Vishnu was heard to say that the wilderness had come into the City at last.† (source)
- Trimurti rules-that is, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.† (source)
- "We need another creator in a hurry," said Vishnu.† (source)
- "I do not feel that we have any great problems at the present time," said Vishnu.† (source)
- Vishnu, being the Preserver, had done this for a reason.† (source)
- In the company of Vishnu, they entered into the City.† (source)
- In our three and a half years together, I have given Bud a new trilogy to contemplate: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.† (source)
- I felt like the sage Markandeya, who fell out of Vishnu's mouth while Vishnu was sleeping and so beheld the entire universe, everything that there is.† (source)
- Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu!† (source)
- Thank you, Lord Vishnu, thank you!† (source)
- "Ganesha, Vishnu and the new Brahma have already approached Agni, to fill the place of the Destroyer," said Kubera.† (source)
- Vayu raised both arms, and a wind like a hurricane hammered the mount of Vishnu, whose beak smashes chariots.† (source)
- Why else in recent years would the god Vishnu be moved to incarnate among men, other than to teach them the Way of Enlightenment?† (source)
- Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma ...They sat in the Hall of Mirrors.† (source)
- Vishnu passed from the Garden of Brahma's Joys; and as he departed, the Mistress of Death entered there.† (source)
- Vishnu, in his wisdom, had seen that there must be a balance between the metropolis and the wilderness.† (source)
- Vishnu the Preserver and Yama-Dharma, Lord of Death, have covered the whole of Heaven, rather than just the City-as it was in days of old-with what is said to be an impenetrable dome.† (source)
- Perhaps Lord Vishnu goes forth....† (source)
- Vishnu was not pleased, later being quoted as having said that the City should not have been defiled with blood, and that wherever chaos finds egress, it will one day return.† (source)
- He was repelled by the combined powers of Ratri and of Vishnu, but he succeeded in escaping into incorporeality before Agni could bring his wand to bear upon him.† (source)
- She told Brahma's First Concubine, who went to see for herself, agreed that her Lord was indeed dead, addressed the statue of the blue goddess, who immediately began playing upon the veena, and then sent messages to Vishnu and Shiva to come at once to the Pavilion.† (source)
- With dawn, the great bird called Garuda, Mount of Vishnu, whose beak smashes chariots, had stirred for a moment into wakefulness and had uttered a single hoarse cry within his cage, a cry that rang through Heaven, stabbing glass into shards, echoing across the land, awakening the soundest sleeper.† (source)
- Why should Vishnu come-now?† (source)
- Vishnu, the Preserver, held the entire Celestial City within his mind, until the day he circled Milehigh Spire on the back of the Garuda Bird, stared downward and the City was captured perfect in a drop of perspiration on his brow.† (source)
- For all ages, since their fashioning by Lord Vishnu, the City and the wilderness had existed side by side, adjacent, yet not really touching, accessible, yet removed from one another by a great distance within the mind, rather than by a separation merely spatial in nature.† (source)
- Vishnu ruled in Heaven.† (source)
- as Shiva danced in a graveyard the Dance of Destruction and the Dance of Time, celebrating the legend of his annihilation of the three flying cities of the Titans, and Krishna the Dark moved through the Wrestler's Dance in commemoration of his breaking of the black demon Bana, while Lakshmi danced the Dance of the Statue, and even Lord Vishnu was coerced into celebrating again the steps of the Dance of the Amphora, as Murugan, in his new body, laughed at the world clad in all her oceans, and did his dance of triumph upon those waters as upon a stage, the dance that he had danced after the slaying of Shura, who had taken refuge in the depths of the sea.† (source)
- Vishnu smiled.† (source)
- Some say Vishnu.† (source)
- Thy fiery rays fill the whole universe with their radiance and scorch it, 0 Vishnu!† (source)
- He exclaims in horror: When I look upon Thy blazing form reaching to the skies and shining with many colors, when I see Thee with Thy mouth opened wide and Thy great eyes glowing bright, my inmost soul trembles in fear, and I find neither courage nor peace, 0 Vishnu!† (source)
- The Ganges, though flowing from the foot of Vishnu and through Siva's hair, is not an ancient stream.† (source)
- These were fervent Brahmins, the bitterest foes of Buddhism, their deities being Vishnu, the solar god, Shiva, the divine impersonation of natural forces, and Brahma, the supreme ruler of priests and legislators.† (source)
- The Vishnu Purana says, "The house-holder is to remain at eventide in his courtyard as long as it takes to milk a cow, or longer if he pleases, to await the arrival of a guest."† (source)
- The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.† (source)
- In further explanation let me say that Brahm is taught, by the same sacred books, as a Triad—Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.† (source)
- there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug.† (source)
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