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Definition of Avatars
1. avatar [n] - See also: avatar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avatars
Literary usage of Avatars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Meditation of Jesus Christ: A Contribution to the Study of Biblical by Milton Spenser Terry (1903)
"... is particularly noted for its innumerable stories of incarnation, which are
called avatars, or descents of the various Hindu avatars. . deities. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1832)
"... the two Peninsulas of India and the neighbouring Islands; and an Appendix
comprising the minor avatars, and the Mythological and Religious terms, ifc. ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... and a large shapeless building containing twenty-four figures of Vishnu and
his various avatars, carved in good style in a close-grained green stone. ..."
4. Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1919)
"711 If we now examine the ten mythical avatars of Vishnu, we find them recorded
in the following progression: 1. ..."
5. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman, John Newton (1884)
"In the first of the avatars of Vishnu, he is represented as emerging from the
mouth of a fish, and being a fish himself; the Figure 97. legend being that he ..."
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