

Appearing as King Rama, he defeated demon-king Ravana after a fierce battle

The famous Hindu mythology, Ramayana where the good prevailed over the evil saw the seventh form of Lord Vishnu. Parashurama prayed to Lord Shiva and acquired an axe which is used to terminate the race. Lord Vishnu took the form of a Brahmin to end the tyrannical rule of unrighteous kings and unchaste women. He was granted moksha after Vamana stepped over Bali’s head. Bali agreed to give away his head after he realised that it was Lord Vishnu. When Lord Vishnu, a Brahmin asked for the land three feet of land. The demon-king had forcefully captured three different worlds. In Treta Yuga, Lord Vishnu incarnated himself as Brahmin to end the rule of the generous demon-king, Bali. Hence Lord Vishnu took the form of half Lion and half human and killed the demon at dusk, with his nails, on the threshold of his house, keeping the demon on his thighs. Hiranyakashipu, a demon had a boon that he could be killed neither by a human nor by an animal, neither inside the house nor outside, not at day nor at night, not on earth nor in the sky and not with any weapon. Lord Vishnu came in the form of Varaha, a wild boar and kept the earth back to its original place. Mandrachala was initially used to churn the ocean but as the ocean was too deep, it started to drown and hence Lord Vishnu descended on earth.Ī demon named Hiranyaksha took the whole of earth to the bottom of the sea. Appearing in the form of a giant tortoise, Lord Vishnu carried the huge mountain Mandrachala.
