sudarshana chakra
सुदर्शन sudarśanaVishnu's discus, the spinning wheel of fire; his chief weapon, read as the wheel of time and the restless mind.
Where this term appears
- What are the Shakti Peethas? Temples
To free Shiva from the corpse, and to free the world from the dance, Vishnu sends his Sudarshana chakra , his discus, and cuts the body of Sati piece by piece while Shiva moves.
- Vishnu's Emblems: Conch, Discus, Mace and Lotus Deities
When Vishnu descends into the world as an avatar , the Sudarshana chakra tends to descend with him.
- The Court of Vishnu Treatise
Chief among Vishnu's is the discus Sudarśana — the whirling, flaming wheel of his will, personified as a fierce many-armed deity, given his own hymns, his own fire-rite (the Sudarśana homa), and in many South I…
- The jewelled earring Treatise
With his discus, the Sudarshana Chakra , he dug a pool in the ground, and he filled it with the sweat of his devotion, and it was first called the Chakra-Pushkarini , the lotus-pool dug by the discus.