ananta
अनन्त ananta'The endless'; the cosmic serpent, also called Shesha, on whose coils Vishnu reclines on the cosmic ocean between the dissolution and remaking of the worlds.
Where this term appears
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
Between the ages Viṣṇu lies in yoga-nidrā , cosmic sleep, on the coils of the serpent Ananta-Śeṣa, floating on the shoreless water, and from his navel the lotus rises again carrying the next Brahmā.
- Who is Vishnu? Deities
…vividly: Narayana reclining on the coiled serpent Shesha, also called Ananta, the endless one, asleep on the ocean of milk between the dissolution of one universe and the birth of the next, with the goddess Lak…
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
Achyuta , the unfallen, the one who never slips from his own nature, the never-failing: it is among the most beloved names in all of Hinduism, the name a devotee reaches for in fear. Ananta , the endless.
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
By tradition the seven hills are the body and heads of Ananta , also called Shesha , the great serpent on whom Vishnu rests.
- Earth and Water Treatise
Śeṣa , also called Ananta , "the endless," is the vast thousand-hooded serpent who floats on the cosmic ocean between the destruction of one world and the making of the next, forming the couch on which Vishnu s…
- The Court of Vishnu Treatise
First is Ananta , also called Śeṣa — but where in the last movement we will meet him from below, as the serpent who holds up the earth, here we meet him from above, as the willing couch of God, the vast coiled …
- The Government of the Cosmos Treatise
…ion often sets Brahmā , and below, at the nadir, Viṣṇu or the serpent Ananta — so that the full set of ten guardians seals space in every direction, up and down and all around.
- The reversal Treatise
The same instinct names the cosmic serpent on whom Vishnu sleeps Ananta-Shesha, the endless remainder.