The Garuda Purana lists ten avatars, with Kalki being the tenth.

Varying lists of avatars of Vishnu appear in Hindu scriptures, including the ten Dashavatara of the Garuda Purana and the twenty-two avatars in the Bhagavata Purana, though the latter adds that the incarnations of Vishnu are innumerable.

The Bhagavata Purana describes Vishnu's avatars as innumerable, though there are ten incarnations ( Dasavatara, Sanskrit: ten avatars ) that are widely seen as his major appearances.

The ten best known avatars of Vishnu are collectively known as the Dasavatara ( a dvigucompound meaning " ten avatars ").

The Guhyatiguyha-tantra associates the Mahavidyas with the ten Avatars of Vishnu, and states that the Mahavidyas are the source from which the avatars of Vishnu arose.

A list contained within the prose of the Mundamala equates Vishnu's ten avatars with the ten Mahavidyas.

Guhyatiguhya-Tantra equates god Vishnu's ten avatars with the ten Mahavidyas ; the man-lion incarnation Narasimha is described to have arisen from Chhinnamasta.

The Dasavatara | ten avatars of Vishnu, ( Clockwise, from top left ) Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Vamana, Krishna, Kalki, Buddha, Parshurama, Rama and Narasimha, ( in centre ) Krishna

The first book introduces the Bhāgavata, with Saunaka gathering the sages in Naimisha Forest to hear Sūta praise bhakti to Krishna and describe the ten avatars of Vishnu.

In response to Parikshit's questions, Śuka describes creation and the avatars of Vishnu, concluding with a description of the ten characteristics of a Purana.

ParaShakthi rode in the center on the chariot of Sri Chakra. Nithya Devi destroyed a large chunk of Bandasura ’ s armies, Bala Devi killed the son of Bandasura, and Manthrini and Dhandini killed his brothers called Vishanga and Vishukra. When the Asuras created blockade for the marching army, Sri Lalitha Tripura sundari created Ganesha with the help of Kameshwara to remove the blockade. Then Bandasura created the asuras called Hiranyaksha, Hiranya Kasipu and Ravana. The Devi created the ten avatars of Vishnu and destroyed them.

It stored user friend lists, which could contain the codenames of up to ten of the user's friends ; the users ' XMAIL boxes, storing up to ten incoming and ten outgoing messages for each user ; the users ' rankings, win / loss records, and accumulated scores ; a short profile section ; and the user's avatar ( chosen from 40 preset avatars ).

Various Ganjifa cards from Dashavatara set, with ten suits depicting the ten Avatar s of the god Vishnu

Here the term " reincarnation " is not strictly applicable, yet Hindu gods are said to have reincarnated ( see Avatar ): Lord Vishnu is known for his ten incarnations, the Dashavatars.

Apart from these, Vishnu is depicted in any of his ten avataras, which include Vishnu sitting on Anantha ( the celestial snake and keeper of life energy ), Vishnu with Lakshmi seated on his lap ( Lakshminarayana ), with the head of a lion disemboweling a demon on his lap ( Lakshminarasimha ), with head of a boar walking over a demon ( Varaha ), in the Krishna avatar ( as Venugopala or the cow herder playing the Venu ( flute ), dancing on the head of the snake Kaliya, lifting a hill such as Govardhana ), with his feet over head of a small figure ( Vamana ), with Lakshmi seated on Garuda, and the eagle ( stealing the parijata tree ).

A very powerful band of lightning emerged from the mouths of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and a young, beautiful female virgin with ten hands appeared.

* Having five heads with the ten eyes looking in the eight directions plus the earth and sky, and ten arms holding all the weapons of Vishnu, symbolizing all her reincarnations.

Kanakana Kindi is decorated with carvings depicting the ten incarnations of Vishnu.

Most common are Abhinayas on Oriya songs or Sanskrit Ashthapadis or Sanskrit stutis like Dasavatar Stotram ( depicting the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu ) or Ardhanari Stotram.

Jayadeva was instrumental in popularizing the Dasavatara, the ten incarnations of Vishnu in another composition, Dasakritikrite.

Haygriva is listed as one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu in Canto 10 ( skandh 10 ), chapter 40 of the Srimadbhagawatam, and Akrur's prayer contains Hayagriva's name when he had a vision while bathing in Yamuna.

This is an important temple in the heart of the town. The ' Dasaavathara Mandapam ' with excellent sculptures of the ten avtars of Maha Vishnu, especially the Narasimha avatara is worth seeing.

bright flowers from the trumpet vine that made `` gloves '' on the ends of ten waggling fingers.

We would all meet at ten o'clock at the Kehl bridge, five miles from Strasbourg, and march triumphantly across into Germany.

In the summary of the principal events of the campaign compiled from the official records there are only ten days which show no fighting.

In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological conditions.

So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.

I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.

The Dartmouth Skiway, at Holt's Ledge, ten miles north of the campus, has one of the best terrains in the East, ranging from novice to expert.

The route was choked with rugged lava-rocks, creepers and bushes, so thickly overgrown that when Kearton lost sight of Ulyate and called, Ulyate answered from ten feet away.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

As roommates, teammates, and home-run mates, Mantle, 29, who broke in with the Yankees ten years ago, and Maris, 26, who came to the Yankees from Kansas City two years ago, have strikingly similar backgrounds.

Some clue to the character of London's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive ''.

The upshot of the evening was that I got the address of Pendleton's studio -- or rather, of the studio in which he gave his classes, for he didn't work there himself -- and joined the life class, which met every Tuesday and Thursday from ten to twelve in the morning.

The two men were leaders of Alcott House, an experimental school based on Alcott's methods from the Temple School located about ten miles outside of London.

The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).

* 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.

The presidency of the boule rotated monthly amongst the ten prytanies, or delegations from the ten Cleisthenic tribes, of the Boule ( there were ten months in the Hellenic calendar ).

The boule coordinated the activities of the various boards and magistrates that carried out the administrative functions of Athens and provided from its own membership randomly selected boards of ten responsible for areas ranging from naval affairs to religious observances.