Read Next
Vishnu: Media
Hindu deity
Videos
Holi: Explaining the Festival of Colors
Holi is perhaps the most colorful day of the year.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Images
Vishnu
The god Brahma sits in a lotus rising from Vishnu's navel and the goddess Lakshmi...
© duncan1890—DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images
Vishnu's avatars
Vishnu with his 10 avatars (incarnations): fish, tortoise, boar, man-lion, dwarf,...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Vishnu
Standing figure of Vishnu, gilt bronze sculpture from Nepal, 10th century; in the...
Photograph by Katie Chao. Brooklyn Museum, New York, gift of Frederic B. Pratt, 29.18
Vishnu; Lakshmi
Vishnu with his consort Lakshmi, from the temple dedicated to Parshvanatha in the...
© Anthony Cassidy
Churning of the ocean of milk
Churning of the ocean of milk, with Vishnu (center) surrounded by his turtle avatar...
Markalexander100/Henry Flower
Vishnu on Garuda
Garudasana Vishnu, gilt bronze sculpture from Angkor Wat, Cambodia, late 12th century;...
Brooklyn Museum, New York, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Poster, 85.220.4
Vishnu
Vishnu, granite sculpture from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, Pallava dynasty, 8th–9th...
Photograph by L. Mandle. Honolulu Academy of Arts, gift of The Christensen Fund, 2001, 10670.1
Hindu art: Vishnu
The Hindu deity Vishnu reclining on the serpent Sesha; sandstone relief panel on...
P. Chandra
Vishnu, stone, from Bali; in the Royal Tropical Institute Museum, Amsterdam. Height...
Courtesy of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
Vishnu
The Ten Incarnations of Vishnu, gouache on wood, cover of a Vishnu-purana...
Photograph by Valerie McGlinchey. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IS 101-1955
VIEW MORE in these related Britannica articles: