Vishvarupa is considered the supreme form of Vishnu, where the whole universe is described as contained within him.
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19 Facts About Vishvarupa
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Vishvarupa is the infinite universe, without a beginning or an end.
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Vishvarupa-Krishna appears with many arms and holds many weapons and attributes traditionally associated with Vishnu like the conch, the Sudarshana chakra, the gada, his bow, his sword Nandaka.
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Vishvarupa holds weapons as well as attributes of an ascetic like sacrificial fire, a staff, a kamandalu.
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Vishvarupa is used in the context of Vishnu's "dwarf" avatar, Vamana in the Harivamsa.
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Vishvarupa is mentioned as Vishnu's avatar in Pancaratra texts like the Satvata Samhita and the Ahirbudhnya Samhita as well as the Vishnudharmottara Purana, that mentions 14 avatars.
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Vishvarupa is interpreted as "the story of evolution", as the individual evolves in this world doing more and more with time.
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The Vishvarupa is a cosmic representation of gods and goddesses, sages and asuras, good and the bad as we perceive in our own particular perspective of existence in this world.
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Arjuna's description of Vishvarupa gave iconographers two options: Vishvarupa as a multi-headed and multi-armed god or all components of the universe displayed in the body of the deity.
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Vishvarupa becomes crystallized as an icon in the early Vishnu cult by the time of Guptas.
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Vishnudharmottara Purana prescribes that Vishvarupa have four arms and should have as many as arms that can be possibly depicted.
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Vishvarupa has twenty arms: a left and right arm outstretched in pataka-hasta and another pair in yoga-mudra pose.
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Vishvarupa's neck is maharloka, his mouth the janaloka, his forehead the tapaloka and his head the satyaloka, abode of Brahma.
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Vishvarupa has ten visible legs and three concentric rings of hands accounting to 58.
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In modern calendar art, Vishvarupa is depicted having many heads, each a different aspect of the divine.
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