Varaha

Hindu · deity · satya yuga · deity

The boar avatāra of Viṣṇu, who dives into the cosmic ocean to lift the drowned earth-goddess Bhūmi on his tusks and slays the daitya Hiraṇyākṣa — the cosmogonic rescue that re-founds the world at the start of the present kalpa.

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