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Vahana / animal · Vaishnava
Gajendra
The elephant king seized by a crocodile who, exhausted, raised a lotus and called on Vishnu; in his previous life the…
Vahana / animal · Vaishnava
Garuda
Garutman · Periya Thiruvadi
Vishnu's eagle mount, on whom he flies to rescue the elephant Gajendra. Every Vishnu temple places a Garuda shrine…
Vahana / animal · Vaishnava
Huhu (the crocodile)
The gandharva Huhu, cursed by the sage Devala into a crocodile, who seized Gajendra and was freed from his form when…
Vahana / animal · Vaishnava
Shesha
Adishesha · Ananta · Adisesha
The many-hooded cosmic serpent on whom Vishnu-Narayana reclines in the ocean of milk; read as time itself, and as the…