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Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Vishnu as Dvarapala or Guardian of tlie Door. Ancient Indiansculpture in the Rock-tennple at Badami. History of All Nations, Vol.11., pageStS. TUE KVTUn-MTNAR AT DELHI. .320 comes forth the eUxir Amrita, the draught that brings innnortality.As a boar, he kills the Daitya Hiranyaksha ( golden eye). Asa man-lion, he slays another demon, Hiranyakagipu ( sitting upongolden carpet ); in this guise he appears on the relief at Badami,opposite the Dvarapala, or gate-keeper. Moreover, as a dwarf heoutwits the king of the Daitya Bali, from whom he obtains the giftof as much land as he can compass in three steps. Hereupon hechanges himself into a giant, and strides through heaven, earth, andair, which he bestows upon the gods. Then Vishnu became the heroParashurama, and successively Rama, and the demi-god Krishna, whoin the Mahabharata takes part in the contests of the Kurus andPandus; finally he is born as Buddha. This last avatar viewsBuddhism as merely a phase of Brahmanism, in order to break

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