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वराहावतार (varAhAvatAra)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
वराहावतार - varAhAvatAra -
m.
 - boar-incarnation
यज्ञवराह - yajJavarAha -
m.
 - viSNu in the boar-incarnation
वराहावतार - varAhAvatAra -
m.
 - boar-incarnation
वराहावतार - varAhAvatAra -
m.
 - Vishnu, third incarnation of
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वराहावतार
m.
 the boar-incarnation (in which Viṣṇu, in boar-form, raised up on one of his tusks the earth which lay buried beneath the waters when the whole world had become one ocean),
IW.
 327
RTL.
 102.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
वराहावतारः
पुं*
 वराहः-अवतारः -
"विष्णु का तीसरा अवतार, वराहावतार"
L R Vaidya
English
varAha-avatAra {% m. %} the third incarnation of Vishṇu.
Mahabharata
English
Varāhāvatāra(ḥ) (“Vishṇu's incarnation as a boar”). § 422 bis (Gandhamādanapr.). Asked by Yudhishṭhira Lomaśa related: In the Kṛta yuga, when the primeval deity (Ādidevaḥ purātanaḥ) assumed the function of Yama, the creatures did not die, and multiplied to such a degree that the Earth sank 100 yojanas. She applied to Nārāyaṇa (= Vishṇu), who, in the shape of a boar with a single tusk (ekaśṛṅga), lifted her up by means of that. The gods, with the ṛshis, became afraid of the agitation produced, but learnt the matter from Brahmán, and with him they went to Nandana, there Vishṇu was sitting in the shape of a boar with Śrīvatsa on his breast, together with Suparṇa, and having seen him they returned home (III, 142).