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sudarshana chakra

सुदर्शन sudarśana

Vishnu's discus, the spinning wheel of fire; his chief weapon, read as the wheel of time and the restless mind.

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  • 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.

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