The bas-relief of the Samudra manthan | Churning of the Sea of Milk shows Vishnu in the centre, his turtle Avatar Kurma below, asura s and deva ( Hinduism ) | deva s to left and right, and apsaras and Indra above.

The person who finds a left-handed chank shell ( one that coils to the left ) is sacred to Vishnu, as well.

He concentrated on Lord Vishnu and closed his eyes and never opened them again until he left his body and started his journey towards the lord.

On seeing no reaction from Lord, Maharishi hit Lord Vishnu on his chest ( that strike by Maharishi Bhrigu left a foot print on Lord's chest and that foot print is known as " Shri Vatsa ").

Repairing next to Vishnu, he found the deity asleep, and, indignant at his seeming sloth, Bhrigu stamped upon his breast with his left foot and awoke him ; instead of being offended, Vishnu gently pressed the Brahman ’ s foot and expressed himself honoured and made happy by its contact ; and Bhrigu, highly pleased by his humility, and satisfied of his being impersonated goodness, proclaimed Vishnu as the only being to be worshipped by men or Gods, in which decision the Sages, upon Bhrighu ’ s report, concurred, " Who was he to test the trimurtis?

left for Vaikunta, the abode of Lord Vishnu.

After the departure of Mahalakshmi, a forlorn Lord Vishnu left Vaikunta, came down to Earth, and took abode in an ant-hill under a tamarind tree, beside a pushkarini on the Venkata Hill, meditating for the return of Lakshmi, without food or sleep.

Numerous figures are seen above Shiva: the god Vishnu, riding his mount Garuda, to his left ; a skeleton-figure ; and in a recess, Parvati's mount, a tiger is depicted.

The gods Brahma and Indra, with their mystic regalia and mounts, are shown to the right of Shiva ; Vishnu riding his mount Garuda, is shown to the left of Parvati.

Also seen in the panel are a male figure riding a bull with a bell fastened to its neck, a female figure and another carving to left of Shiva, a female figure with a jewel on her forehead with neatly looped head-dress, Indra riding an elephant, Vishnu with four arms, holding a discus in one of his left hands and riding on Garuda flanked by a small flying figure, and a male figure with crescent in his hair.

Even Hindus believe that God will never leave the world deserted, we believe that God, that is Vishnu, descended to earth in Ali the Tenth Avatar and has never left us.

Kapila is considered an incarnation of the supreme-being ( Narayana ) and listed as such in the list of incarnations in Bhagavata Purana. After his father left home, Kapila instructed his mother, Devahuti in the philosophy of yoga and devotional worship of Lord Vishnu, enabling her to achieve liberation ( moksha ).

Before he left for Patala, he bowed to Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva.

The sukhanasi door-way, which is also good, has ornamental screens at the sides and a figure of Siva on the lintel, flanked on the left by Vishnu and Subramanya, and on the right by Brahma and Ganapati, with makaras beyond these on both the sides.

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

Vishnu ( left half, holding disc ) and Shiva ( lighter coloured half, holding trident ) combined in a single murthi form, along with Lakshmi and Parvati

They have left behind an imperishable legacy of devotional Tamil poetry-naalaayira Divya Prabhandham ( considered to be the essence of the Vedas, in Tamil, and all in praise of Lord Vishnu ).

Interior decoration with depictions of the gods Vishnu, Brahma, and Indra from left to right

Adivaraha, the boar incarnation of Vishnu, wears a long " Vanamala " to right with his left leg raised.

The central sanctuary of an Angkorian temple was home to the temple's primary deity, the one to whom the site was dedicated: typically Shiva or Vishnu in the case of a Hindu temple, Buddha or a bodhisattva in the case of a Buddhist temple.

Contemporary Hindu eschatology is linked in the Vaishnavite tradition to the figure of Kalki, or the tenth and last avatar of Vishnu before the age draws to a close, and Shiva simultaneously dissolves and regenerates the universe.

In Hinduism, Sacred Feminine or Shaktism is one of the three major Hindu denominations of worship along with Vishnu and Shiva.

Although Buddhism did not disappear from India for several centuries after the eighth, royal proclivities for the cults of Vishnu and Shiva weakened Buddhism's position within the sociopolitical context and helped make possible its decline.

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.

Smartism is also monistic, but does not single out one specific Indic deity but a pentad of gods-the " Panchayatana ", which includes Shiva, Vishnu, Surya, Devi, and Ganesha.

The Hoysalas usually dedicated their temples to Lord Shiva or to Lord Vishnu ( two of the major Hindu gods ), but they occasionally chose a different deity.

Worshippers of Shiva are called Shaivas or Lingayats and worshippers of Vishnu are called Vaishnavas.

While King Vishnuvardhana and his descendants were Vaishnava by faith, records show that the Hoysalas maintained religious harmony by building as many temples dedicated to Shiva as they did to Vishnu.

This can be seen in the famous Chennakesava Temple at Belur dedicated to Vishnu and in the Hoysaleswara temple at Halebidu dedicated to Shiva.

The Doddagaddavalli Lakshmi Devi (" Goddess of Wealth ") Temple is an exception as it is dedicated to neither Vishnu nor Shiva.

The two main deities found in Hoysala temple sculpture are Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu in their various forms and avatars ( incarnations ).

** Vishvakarman in Vedic mythology, responsible for the creation of the universe ( while in later Puranic period, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are for creation, maintenance and destruction, respectively )

It is believed that Goddess Adi Parashakti, created the Trimurti Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.

The Trimurti function under the jurisdiction of the all powerful and highest goddess. Shiva the main initiator and creator of everything the earth universe, Shiva created Vishnu, Bharama '& it have evidence in puran '.

The accounts of the emergence of life within the universe vary in description, but classically the god Brahma, from a Trimurti of three gods also including Vishnu and Shiva, is described as performing the act of creation, or more specifically of " propagating life within the universe " with the other two deities being responsible for preservation and destruction ( of the universe ) respectively.

Brahmins associated naga with Shiva and with Vishnu, who rested on a 100 headed naga coiled around Shiva ’ s neck.

Shiva is pictured as Lingodbhava, emerging from the Lingam-the cosmic fire pillar-proving his superiority over gods Brahma and Vishnu.

Lingobhava Shiva: God Shiva appears as in an infinite Linga fire-pillar, as Vishnu as Varaha tries to find the bottom of the Linga while Brahma tries to find its top.

Many are dedicated to Shiva and Parvati, Vishnu and Lakshmi and Brahma and Saraswati

After invoking, in the Prologue of the book, the Hindu gods Shiva and Vishnu (" by whom the earth and rest were produced "), Vidyāraṇya asks, in the first chapter:

The combined material energy of all the gods, including Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, created Her.