Kurma
Hindu · deity · satya yuga · Recorded classification
Lane 16 BLOCKED this figure explicitly: the Dashavatara searches returned Kurma only as an item in a list, and the lane refused to build a record out of a list entry. This pass retrieved a treatment that gives him an act, so he is ingested. That is what a BLOCKED row is for, and it is the first time in this programme that a blocked row from one lane has been cleared by the next.
Domains
- cosmic support
Relations
- avatar of: VishnuNon-symmetric, and following the treatment the corpus already gives Matsya, Varaha, Narasimha, Rama, Krishna, Balarama and — from lane 16 — Vamana.Reference treatment of Kurma as the form Vishnu takes at the churning, and among the ten avatars from Matsya to Kalki. (secondary)
- bore: VasukiIn-batch. Not a kinship and not an alliance: the tortoise is under the mountain the serpent is wound around, which is the mechanical arrangement the whole episode consists of.Reference treatment of the churning: Kurma supports the mountain, the asuras hold Vasuki's head and the devas his tail. (secondary)
Sources
- Kurma is the tortoise avatar of Vishnu, who supports Mount Mandara on his back during the churning of the ocean.: Reference treatments of Kurma, of the Samudra Manthan and of the Dashavatara. (secondary)