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168 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
According to Hari Vamsha
According to Narayani Akhyan
According to Varaha Purana
According to According Vayu Purana to Bhagwat Purana
1 Varaha Hansa Kurma Narasinha Sanatkumar
2 Narasinha Kurma Matsya Vaman Boar
3 Vaman Matsya Varaha Varaha
4 Parshuram Varaha Narasinha Kurma Nara-Narayan
5 Rama Narasinha Vaman Sangram Kapila
6 Krishna Vaman Parshuram Adivaka Dattatraya
7 Parshuram Rama Tripurari Jadna
8 Rama Krishna Andhakarh Rashabha
9 Krishna Buddha Dhvaja Prithi
10 Kalkin Kalkin Varta Matsya
11 Halahal Kurma
12 Kolhahal Dhanwantri
13 Mohini
14 Narasinha
15 Vaman
16 Parshuram
17 Ved Vyas
18 Naradeo
19 Rama
20 Krishna
21 Buddha
22 Kalkin
These Avatars are all said by these Puranas to be the Avatars of Vishnu. But to begin, with when the Avatars had begun to be coined the story of the two Avatars—of the Boar [1] and the Fish [2] —which in later times given to Vishnu was given by the Brahmins to Brahma. Again even when the Brahmins admitted Shiva and Vishnu as co-equal with Brahma they maintained the supremacy of Brahma over Shiva and Vishnu. The Brahmins made him the progenitor of Shiva [3] and propagated the view that if Vishnu [4] became the preserver of the world it was because of the command of the Brahma. With the plurality of Gods, conflicts between them were always present and some God to act as Arbitrator and settler of disputes was necessary.
1 Ramayana—Quoted in Muir’s Sanskrit Texts Vol. IV p. 33.
2 Mahabharata—Vana Parva & Linga Purana—Muir Ibid., pp. 38-39.
3 Vishnu Purana—Muir Ibid p. 392.
4 Ramayana—Muir Ibid p. 477.