Dasavatar
Explore the ten divine avatars of Lord Vishnu
Matsya: The Cosmic Fish
A tiny fish in a king's cupped hands grows to fill the ocean, warns of the deluge, and pulls the boat of creation across the waters of dissolution.
Kurma: The Cosmic Tortoise
When Mount Mandara sinks during the churning of the cosmic ocean, a colossal tortoise descends to bear the mountain on his shell.
Varaha: The Cosmic Boar
A boar no larger than a thumb erupts from Brahma's nostril, grows beyond measurement, dives to the ocean floor, and lifts the drowned Earth on his tusks.
Narasimha: The Man-Lion
A stone pillar explodes and from within emerges a being neither man nor beast, fulfilling every impossible condition of a demon's boon.
Vamana: The Dwarf Brahmin
A tiny Brahmin boy asks a generous king for three paces of land — then grows to stride across the earth, the heavens, and the king's own head.
Parashurama: The Warrior Sage
Armed with an axe from Shiva, a sage's son wages twenty-one campaigns to cleanse the earth of corrupt warrior-kings who murdered his father.
Rama: The Perfect King
An exiled prince builds a bridge across the ocean, slays a demon-king who stole his wife, and returns to establish the golden age of just rule.
Krishna: The Supreme Being
Born in a prison cell at midnight, a cowherd boy who steals butter, dances on a serpent's hood, lifts a mountain, and speaks the song of God on the battlefield.
Buddha: The Compassionate Teacher
A prince who had never seen suffering encounters old age, sickness, and death — renounces everything, and under a tree attains the knowledge that ends all sorrow.
Kalki: The Future Destroyer
At the end of the darkest age, a rider on a white horse with a blazing sword will cleanse the earth and restart the golden cycle of time.