Deities · Vaishnava / Dashavatara / Vaiṣṇava Avatāras
Lord Rama
राम
Ram
One of Lord Vishnu's incarnations (Dashavatara); the 7th avatar. Ram (or Rama) signifies supreme joy, peace, and divine bliss. Lord Ram's life serves as the ultimate moral compass for living a virtuous, honorable life.
Quick facts
- Era
- Treta Yuga / Sanatana
- vahana
- Chariot (ratha), Garuda (as Vishnu)
- consort
- Goddess Sita
- Abode
- Ayodhya
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Epithets
Names and titles by which Lord Rama is invoked across the śāstras.
Essays
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The Ten Descents — Daśāvatāra and the awakening of consciousness
Viṣṇu's ten avatāras read as a parallel to biological and social evolution — from Matsya the fish to Kalki the future rider — with the Vedāntic twist that the Lord *descends* (avatāra) so the soul (jīva) can *ascend* (pariṇāma).
Essay · Vaiṣṇava TheologyTwo traditions on the Eighth — Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma and the question of who the avatāra is
Two authoritative streams disagree about the eighth Daśāvatāra: one names Kṛṣṇa the avatāra with Balarāma as Ādi-Śeṣa, the other (Gauḍīya) names Kṛṣṇa Svayam Bhagavān with Balarāma as the eighth. Both are read side by side.
Essay · Astronomy & ScriptureMeasuring the Heavens — the speed of light and the distance to the Sun
Sāyaṇa's 14th-century commentary on a Ṛgvedic hymn to Sūrya states a velocity for sunlight that lands within one percent of the modern value for c — and the 18th verse of the Hanumān Cālīsā carries an orbital distance to the Sun. Two cases of hard astronomy preserved inside devotional text.
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