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1 fish

2 turtle

3 pig

4 .5 man

5 dwarf

6 7 Rama

8 Krishna

9 Gautama Buddha

10 Kalki

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1 fish

2 turtle

3 pig

4 .5 man

5 dwarf

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7 Rama8 Krishna

9 Gautama Buddha

10 Kalki

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1 Matsya

2 Kurma

3 Varaha

4 Narasingh

5 Vamana

6 Parasuram

9 Budh

7 Ram

8 Krishn

10 Kalki

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1 Matsya (fish incarnation)

Matsya Avatar takes place to save the pious and the first man,Manu and

advices him to build a giant boat

According to the Matsya Purana, the king of pre-ancient Dravida and a devotee of Vishnu, Satyavrata who later was

known asM

anu was washing his hands in a river when a little fish swam into his hands and pleaded with him to saveits life. He put it in a jar, which it soon outgrew. He then moved it to a tank, a river and then finally the ocean but to no

avail. The fish then revealed himself to be Vishnu and told him that a deluge would occur within seven days that would

destroy all life. Therefore, Satyavrata was instructed to take "all medicinal herbs, all the varieties of seeds, and

accompanied by the seven saints[4] along with the serpent Vasuki and other animals. Lord Matsya is generally

represented as a four-armed figure with the upper torso of a man and the lower of a fish.

Before the latest creation of the present universe, the four Vedas

remained drowned in the waters. It was necessary to get hold of

them to instruct Brahma about the work of creation. Vishnu was

therefore appointed to bring up the Vedas from the deep. He took

the form of a fish (matsya), descended into the waters and brought

up these sacred books

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2 Kurma (tortoise-avatar)

In Kurma avatar, Lord Vishnu assumed the form of a tortoise and took the newly created earth on his

back in order to render stability to the trembling globe. It is believed that even to this day the earth is

supported on the back of this tortoise.

Koorma (the tortoise) Avatar

Tortoise that supports the churn of the ocean to obtain treasures dissolved in the ocean of milk.

One of the ten avatars of Vishnu that appeared in the Satya Yuga.

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3 Varaha (boar(pig)-avatar)

In periodical destruction of the world, once the earth sunk into

the deep waters. Lord Vishnu, the great preserver, taking the

form

of a b

oar (Varaha), descended int

othe waters and drewup the earth with the help of his tusks.

He appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksha, a demon who had taken

the Earth (Prithvi) and carried it to the bottom of what is described as

the cosmic ocean in the story. The battle between Varaha and

Hiranyaksha is believed to have lasted for a thousand years, which the

former finally won.

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4 Narasingh(half-man/half-lion)

This special form was adopted by Lord Vishnu to kill a demoniac ruler Hiranyakashyap, who had pleased the Lord

Brahma with his religious offerings. Lord Brahma had given him the blessings that no known man or animal born in

the natural process could kill him, that he could not die in the day or in the night, on earth or in heavens, either byfire, water or by any weapon. It was to kill such a tyrant and to remove him from the earth that Lord Vishnu assumed

the form of Narasingh which was neither man nor animal, came out of a broken pillar, laid hold of the demon king by

its teeth, put him up on his thighs and tore him up in the middle by his claws. It was evening time (twilight) - neither

day nor night.

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5 Vamana (human form dwarf-avatar)

The fourth lineal descendant of Hiranyakashyap, named Bali, through his devotion and penance

defeated Indra, the god of firmament, humbled other gods and extended his authority over the three

worlds. All the gods appealed to Lord Vishnu for protection and He became manifest in His Dwarf

Avatar of Vaman for the purpose of restraining Bali. Once when this king was making a great religious

offering, Lord Vishnu in the form of Vaman appeared before him in the company of other brahmins.

Bali was extremely pleased to see a holy man with such a diminutive form and promised to give himwhatever he should ask. Lord Vishnu asked only for as much land as he could measure by three steps.

Bali laughingly agreed to grant the boon of three steps. Lord Vishnu as dwarf stepped over heaven in

first stride and earth in the second stride. Then out of respect to Bali's kindness and his grandfather

Prahlad's great virtues, Lord Vishnu stopped short and left him in pathal, the subterranean region.

Bali's capital wasMahabalipuram.

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6 Parasuram

Parsu is the name of an axe-like weapon adopted by this

incarnation.Parasuram was a brahmin who manifested himself at the

close of the satya-yug. This appearance was for the

purpose of defeating the tyranny of the power-drunk

kshatriyas.

When the kshatriya kings of the earth and their ministers

became very corrupt and tyrannical, the goddess Prithvi(Mother Earth) went to Lord Vishnu and prayed for relief.

Lord Vishnu answered the prayer and appeared on the

earth as a descendant of the great sage Brigu. Parasuram

avenged the gruesome murder of his father by a kshatriya

king and freed the earth of oppression perpetrated by the

rulers by clearing the earth of kshatriyas.

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7 Ram

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8 Krishn

Abode Vrindavan, Gokul, Dwarka

Mantra

Weapon Discus (Sudarshana Chakra)

ConsortRadha, Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati, Satya,

Lakshmana, Kalindi, Bhadra,Mitravinda and 16100 wives

Mount Garuda

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9 Budh

Siddhrtha Gautama

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The tenth and the last avatar of Vishnu, Kalki,

is yet to appear. Kalki will appear at the end of

the Kalyuga. This avatar will appear seated on

a white horse with a drawn sword blazing like a

comet.

He shall come finally to destroy the wicked, to

restart the new creation and to restore the

purity of conduct in people's lives

10 Kalki

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