Word: vishnu
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...Compared with Indian sculpture, from which it ultimately derives, Cambodian art is quite restricted in its range of subject: there isn't the same bewildering pullulation of different gods. In Cambodia the same cast recurs again and again: the Buddha in his various forms; the main Hindu deities: Shiva, Vishnu, the elephant god Ganesha and so forth. And there is very little of the eroticism of Indian sculpture: bare breasts and torsos, but no full nudes, and no copulation...
...many ways it is. Angkor Wat, a Hindu shrine dedicated to the god Vishnu, is one of hundreds of stone structures built a thousand years ago over a 200- sq.-mi. area. Although largely abandoned for five centuries, more than 270 of the temples have survived intact. But little is known about the society that created one of the architectural wonders of the world...
...ancient block, which once adorned the temple entrance, has sat, almost unnoticed, at the institute since 1967. It bears an exquisite carving depicting the Hindu god Vishnu, who is said to have created the world from an ocean of milk. Thailand wants the lintel returned in time for the official unveiling of the restored temple in April...
...discussion of black holes and white holes sounds much the same as a passage in the Hindu Matsya Purana, paraphrased by Francis Huxley in The Way of the Sacred, which describes Vishnu, in a cosmic context, as "the lord [of the] whirlpool that sucks back all that it has once produced and is the Death of the Universe...
...with clarified butter, milk, curd and honey by representatives of the four traditional Hindu castes: a Brahman, a warrior, a merchant and an Untouchable. Only then was Birendra-also known as the King of Kings, the Five Times Godly, the Valorous Warrior, the Divine Emperor and the reincarnation of Vishnu, god of preservation-ready to be crowned...