The Vishnu Smriti and Manu Smriti regard the teacher and the mother and father as the most venerable influences on an individual.

Although chapter 85 of the Vishnu Smriti lists as many as fifty-two places of pilgrimage, including towns, lakes, rivers, mountains, etc., it does not include Ayodhya in this list.

* 1994: Arvind Gaur directed this play in India with Jaimini Kumar as Brutus and Deepak Ochani as Caesar ( 24 shows ); later on he revived it with Manu Rishi as Caesar and Vishnu Prasad as Brutus for the Shakespeare Drama Festival, Assam in 1998.

Manu was informed of the impending flood and was protected by the Matsya Avatar of Lord Vishnu, who had manifested himself in this form to rid the world of morally depraved human beings and protect the pious, as also all animals and plants.

Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva and Maharaj Manu are considered Prajapaties.

According to the Matsya Purana, the king of pre-ancient Aryavarta ( North India ) and a devotee of Vishnu, Satyavrata who later was known as Manu was washing his hands in a river when a little fish swam into his hands and pleaded with him to save its life.

There are several Brahmin law givers, such as Angiras, Apasthambha, Atri, Bhrigu, Brihaspati, Boudhayana, Daksha, Gautama, Harita, Katyayana, Likhita, Manu, Parasara, Samvarta, Shankha, Shatatapa, Ushanasa, Vashista, Vishnu, Vyasa, Yajnavalkya, and Yama.

In Hindu mythology, texts such as the Satapatha Brahmana mention the puranic story of a great flood, wherein the Matsya Avatar of Vishnu warns the first man, Manu, of the impending flood, and also advises him to build a giant boat.

Also, by the boon of Vishnu, Bali will be the next, that is the eighth Indra ( King of Devas ) ( Purandara is the current Indra ) during the time of the eighth Manu, Savarni Manu.

The description of the six past Manvantaras ( ages or time periods of Manu ) and the seven future ages of Manu includes several stories, many involving the avatars of Vishnu.

In various Hindu traditions, Manu, is a title accorded to the progenitor of mankind, and also the very first king to rule this earth, who saved mankind from the great flood, after being warned of it, by the Matsya avatar of Vishnu, who also advised him to build a giant boat.

According to the Matsya Purana, The Matsya Avatar of Vishnu is believed to have appeared initially as a Shaphari ( a small carp ), to King Manu ( whose original name was Satyavrata ), the then King of Kumari Kandam, while he washed his hands in a river.

At the time of deluge, Vishnu appeared as a horned fish and Shesha appeared as a rope, with which Vaivasvata Manu fastened the boat to horn of the fish.

Friedrich Wilhelm ( Prüfung und Initiation im Buche Pausya und in der Biographie des Náropa, Wiesbaden 1965, p. 11 ) maintains that similar phraseology already occurs in the " Book of Manu " ( II, 111 ) and in the " Institutes of Vishnu ".

In some versions, he is the son of Vaivasvata Manu ( formerly the Emperor Satyavrata of Dravida ), one of the two central characters along with the Lord Matsya incarnation of Lord Vishnu in the Matsya Purana.

Of the four major sects, Shaivism, Vaishnavism, and Shaktism each regard only one specific Indic deity ( Shiva, Vishnu, or Shakti ) as the supreme being and principal object of worship, whereas all other divinities are considered merely " sub-gods " or manifestations of it.

Hindus regard the Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu and thousands of Hindu pilgrims come here on the full moon of the Nepali month of Baisakh ( April-May ) to worship Maya Devi as Rupa Devi, the mother goddess of Lumbini.

A number of Vaishnava traditions regard him as an Avatar of Vishnu.

* Krishna () is associated with Vishnu and certain Vaishnava traditions also regard Him as Para Brahman and Svayam Bhagavan ( svayambhagavān ) or the Lord Himself.

Not such a sectarian claim as it appears ; Hindus regard Shiva and Vishnu as the same or as manifestations of the Absolute taking form.

Some argue that both Shiva and Vishnu are the Supreme God-both being different aspects of the one person ; and there are others still who regard the Supreme God as being ultimately formless ( advaita, no material form ) and thus see both Vishnu and Shiva as different facets of the one formless Brahman, with no material form.

As they regard Muthukutty as incarnation of Vishnu, they affirm that the worship of Muthukutty is really a worship of the supreme being ........

Many Saivites and Vaishnavites, for example, differ from Smartas, in that they regard Surya as an aspect of Shiva and Vishnu, respectively.

However, A. Vishnu of The Hindu had contrasting opinions with regard to Rihanna's vocal performance, writing the song further " exposes her versatility and vocal range ".

Some of the upcoming Odissi performers in alphabetic order are Aadya Kaktikar, Anindita Nanda, Arushi Mudgal, Ayona Bhaduri, Bani Ray, Bijay Sahoo, Devraj Patnaik, Ellora Patnaik, Kaustavi Sarkar, Kavita Dwivedi, Lingaraj Pradhan, Madhusmita Mohanty, Masako Ono, Niharika Mohanty, Pabitra Kumar Pradhan, Priyadarshini Roy, Puspita Mishra, Rahul Acharya, Rajashree Chintak Behera, Rajashri Praharaj, Rajika Puri, Ramesh Chandra Jena, Rekha Tandon, Sandhyadipa Kar, Saswat Joshi, Saswati Garai-Ghosh, Shibani Patnaik, Shipra Avantica Mehrotra, Shreelina Ghosh, Sonali Mishra, Sreyashi Dey, Swapnokalpa Dasgupta, Vishnu Tattva Das, Yudhistir Nayak, and several others around the world.

* The Advaya Taraka Upanishad states that the true teacher is well-versed in the Vedas, is a devotee of Vishnu, is free from envy, knows yoga and is intent upon it, and always has the nature of yoga.

Dumézil theorizes that these myths of Fenrir / Víðarr and Bali / Vishnu may have a common origin in an Indo-European God of spatiality, similar but distinct from the hypothetical framing or entry / exit God that spawned Janus and Heimdall.

This name is a Vaishnava name ( a name relating to Lord Krishna / Vishnu or a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint ), and is followed by " Dasa " for men and " Dasi " for women ( both terms mean " servant ").

At the top of the Hindu philosophy is the formless, undefined Brahman, from whom / which come the different forms and deities, the foremost of which is the Trimurti: Brahma ( the creator ), Vishnu ( the sustainer ) and Shiva ( the destroyer ), and their individual ' Shakti ' ( commonly defined as their wives, but also goddesses in their own right ): Saraswati the goddess of learning, Lakshmi the goddess of all forms of wealth, and Parvati ( also known as Durga, Shakti, Ambika ) the goddess of courage and power.

भवन े Bhavanê ( At the home of ) + व ि ष ् ण ु Vishnu + यशस ः Yáśas ( Worthy ) + कल ् क Kalk ( Mud or Sediment ) + इ i ( to arise from, come from ) + प ् र ा द ु र ् Prādúr ( Arise / Born ) भव ि ष ् यत ि Bhavishyati ( In the future )

In the future at the home of Vishnu worthy, one from the mud / sediment will arise / be born.

The day begins with an early morning oil bath, wearing new clothes, bursting of crackers, visiting Lord Ganesha, Lord Vishnu / Siva temples.

The multiple heads or limbs of Lord Vishnu or Goddess Durga often seen in Hindu art, for example, would be intended to represent divine omniscience and omnipotence, whereas the use of an animal icons for vehicle would seek to allegorically represent particular abstract qualities associated with that animal / bird such as astuteness, agility or power.

When taken letter by letter, A-U-M represents the divine energy ( Shakti ) united in its three elementary aspects: Bhrahma Shakti ( creation ), Vishnu Shakti ( preservation ) and Shiva Shakti ( liberation, and / or destruction ).

; thus speaking about Vishnu as God and not as some " demon " etc., like other non-vedic philosophers and religions / dharmas may do.

Some gṛhya sūtrās like Vaikhanasa prescribe 2 more samskaras, the Vishnu bali and the Pravasagamana / Pindavardhana.

In the Megaten franchise, Majin / Demon God is usually a clan title used to categorize the chief deity from various pantheon like Vishnu, Horus, and Baal who are not demonic in nature.

One may also call brahmaloka, abode of Brahman or Vishnu a ' jnana-loka ', at least that may be true if one follows advaita system of Shankaracarya: he is supreme jnani, best of all impersonalists, and ultimately Shiva / Shankaracarya says: worship Govinda ( Krishna )-He is Supreme Brahman.

* Phra Narai / Witsanu ( Narayana / Vishnu )

Many of the bhakti teachings in the Bhāgavata are presented as yogic activities — meditating on the lila of Krishna ; hearing and singing about Vishnu / Krishna ; remembering, serving, and worshiping him ; dedicating all of one's actions to him — all are among nine activities of Bhakti Yoga taught in the Bhāgavata.

Madhva's Dualism also acknowledges two principles, however, it holds one of them ( the sentient ) as being rigorously and eternally dependent on the other ( Vishnu / Brahman ).

Whereas Advaita preaches that Atman and Brahman are one and the same, which is not evident to the atman till it comes out of a so-called illusion, Madhvacharya puts forth that Brahman ( Vishnu / God ) and Atman ( soul ) are eternally different, with God always the Superior one.

" Gaudiya " refers to the Gauḍa region ( present day Bengal / Bangladesh ) with Vaishnavism meaning " the worship of Vishnu ".

Janardana ( Sanskrit: जन ा र ् दन IAST / janārdana /) is another name of Vishnu or God and appears as the 126th name in the Vishnu sahasranama.

There was a Hindu / Vishnu temple in the 8th century AD.