deity

Vishnu

Beings

The named Hindu preserver god of the Trimurti, source of many avatars. Not Krishna as one avatar alone, and not Shiva as destroyer under one id.

Also known as Viṣṇu

Vedic tradition

sources

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.