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The eighth avatar of Vishnu and the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. As the charioteer of Arjuna on Kurukshetra, he revealed the Vishwarupa — the infinite cosmic form that contains al…

Garuḍa, the great bird-king, carries Viṣṇu and flies on his banner. How the Mahābhārata explains this as a bargain struck in mid-air, why Garuḍa is the enemy of serpents, and what …

Viṣṇu temples place Garuḍa facing the shrine, often on a tall pillar, the **Garuḍa-stambha**. The famous **Heliodorus pillar** at Vidisha (2nd century BCE) is one: a Greek envoy se…

A prophecy named Kṛṣṇa as the one who would kill Kaṃsa before Kṛṣṇa was even born. Kaṃsa spent that prophecy killing six infants trying to prevent it — then summoned Kṛṣṇa himself,…

At Devakī's wedding to Vasudeva, a voice prophesies that her eighth child will kill her brother Kaṃsa. Kaṃsa, king of Mathurā, responds by impr …

Insulted by his stepmother and denied his father's lap, five-year-old Dhruva walks into the forest to find God Himself — and through six months of unshakable penance wins not only …