vyuha
व्यूह vyūhaIn the Pancharatra, the fourfold self-emanation of the supreme Vasudeva into Samkarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha.
Where this term appears
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
The fourfold Lord The theology at the centre of the Pāñcarātra is the vyūha doctrine, and it is one of the most distinctive ideas in all of Vaiṣṇavism.
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
… and refutes rival systems, and among them it takes up the Pāñcarātra vyūha doctrine at aphorisms forty-two to forty-five, and, in the neighbouring section, the Pāśupata Śaiva view of God as merely the efficien…
- The Classes of the Gods Treatise
…hing this treatise has argued about the gaṇas and the yoginīs and the vyūhas — that the retinue is the deity unfolded, the deity the retinue gathered — is already here, in a sage's descending breath, three thou…
- The Court of Vishnu Treatise
He unfolds — vyūha, an "arraying" or "deployment" — into four forms: Vāsudeva, Saṃkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, Aniruddha , each carrying a cluster of the divine qualities (knowledge, strength, lordship, power, virility,…