Vamana

Not to be confused with Vimana.
"Trivikrama" redirects here. For the 2022 film, see Trivikrama (film).
This article is about an avatar of Hindu god Vishnu. For the medieval grammarian, see Kāśikāvṛttī. For Ayurveda procedure, see Vamana (Panchakarma).
Vamana
Member of Dashavatara
Vamana, an avatar of Vishnu pushes Mahabali down to Sutala with his feet, painting by Raja Ravi Varma.
AffiliationVaishnavism
AbodeVaikuntha, Satala
MantraOm Trivikramaya vidmahe
Vishvarupaya cha dhimahi
Tanno Vamana prachodayat
SymbolKamandalu and umbrella
FestivalsOnam, Balipratipada, Vamana Dvadashi
Genealogy
Parents
SiblingsIndra and the Adityas
ConsortKamala
ChildrenBrhatsloka ('Great Praise')
Dashavatara Sequence
PredecessorNarasimha
SuccessorParashurama

Vamana (Sanskrit: वामन, lit. 'Dwarf', IAST: Vāmana)[1] also known as Trivikrama (lit. 'three steps'),[2] Urukrama (lit. 'far-stepping'),[3] Upendra (lit. 'Indra’s younger brother'),[4][5] Dadhivamana (Sanskrit: दधिवामन, lit. 'milk-dwarf', IAST: Dadhivāmana),[6] and Balibandhana (lit. 'binder or killer of Bali'),[7] is an avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu.[8] He is the fifth avatar of Vishnu and the first Dashavatara in the Treta Yuga, after Narasimha.[9]

First mentioned in the Vedas, Vamana is most commonly associated in the Hindu epics and Puranas with the story of taking back the three worlds (collectively referred to as the Trailokya)[10] from the daitya-king Mahabali by taking three steps to restore the cosmic order and push Mahabali into netherworld.[11] He is the youngest among the adityas, the sons of Aditi and the sage Kashyapa.

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  2. ^ "Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit: 'Trivikrama'". spokensanskrit.org. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit: 'Urukrama'". spokensanskrit.org. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: 'Upendra'". faculty.washington.edu. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit: 'Upendra'". spokensanskrit.org. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  6. ^ www.wisdomlib.org (13 June 2018). "Dadhivamana, Dadhivāmana, Dadhi-vamana: 4 definitions". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  7. ^ "Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: 'balibandhana'". faculty.washington.edu. Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  8. ^ Vaswani, J. P. (22 December 2017). Dasavatara. Jaico Publishing House. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-93-86867-18-6.
  9. ^ Ph.D, James G. Lochtefeld (15 December 2001). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Volume 1. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. pp. 175. ISBN 978-0-8239-3179-8.
  10. ^ "Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: 'Triloka'". faculty.washington.edu. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  11. ^ Kalidasan, Vinod Kottayil (1 April 2015). "A king lost and found: Revisiting the popular and the tribal myths of Mahabali from Kerala". Studies in South Asian Film & Media. 7 (1–2): 103–118. doi:10.1386/safm.7.1-2.103_1. ISSN 1756-4921.