Vishnu: Gods and Goddesses of India- 3

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Lord Vishnu, the most revered deity of the Hindu Pantheon, is described to be having his permanent abode in water: Why? Why has he become the all-powerful, all-knowing God having the exclusive potency to incarnate his various forms to redeem the earth of its distress? Why he alone is the slayer of maximum number of demons? Why did he never give any boon to a demon unlike his other two companions of the Supreme Trinity-viz; Brahm! and Shiv- who were quite reckless in granting boons even to the most ferocious demons? Why Lakshmi, the Goddess of all riches, is his consort? Find answer to all these queries in this Book encompassing not only a logical interpretation of this deity's omnipotence but also the Sanskrit/Hindi texts and their Hindi/English of all the orisons. artis etc: praising him.

Dr. B.K. Chaturvedi born in a village, Holipura (Agra, U.P.) on 3rd August 1945, in a reputed family, he had his education in Allahabad (M.Sc.) and Bangalore. Having served for a couple of years in HMT, he is now a free- lance author, journalist and poet based in New Delhi for about two decades.

He has many articles/poems/books published in both Hindi and English to his credit. among them is a mattered verse-translation in English the famous epic of modern Hindi: KAMAYANI. He has also rendered "Srimadbhagawat Gita' and 'Sriramcharitamanas' into English. A prolific writer, he often writes for TV and Radio.

Lord Vishnu is perhaps the God of gods of the Sanatan Dharma. He is the Preserver or the Sustainer of the world and hence considered to be the Supreme Deity. Owing to His almost omnipresent adorability in the forms of his various Incarnations as also His prestine image, He has perhaps the maximum number of hymns, orisons, prayers etc., devoted to Him which, too, spread countless scriptural and literary works. While selecting the material for this Book we have tried to cull numerous legends, hymns etc., from the original source. Our attempt has been to give a picture of Lord Vishnu in this small volume with authenticity and relevance to the overall context of this presentation' without neglecting His folklore popularity either. In selecting the Ten Incarnations of Lord Vishnu we have stuck to the list devised by the leading scholars of the country. We are proud to draw our readers' attention to the fact that the famous prayer 'Gajendra Moksha' is being presented for the first time in also the Roman script with its in English. The translation of the hymns have been done seperately in Hindi and English, keeping in view the general awareness of the readers about the scriptural terminology used therein with relevant foot-notes to ease their better comprehension. The idea is to make the message reach home notwithstanding the minor variations from the text to elucidate the point.

The due stress has been laid on the logical interpretation of the divine events to reveal their inherent importance which often gets lost in the blind adulations without any scope of an inde- pendent assessment. It is for this reason that instead of chronologically accounting the life events of the Incarnations, we have given emphasis on the over-all impact of their doings and teachings on mankind.