Abhaya, Mudras Source A Sanskrit-English DictionaryMonier Monier-Williams
Andal, Figures Her poems are addressed to Vishnu, and the traditional account ends with her merging into the image of Ranganatha at Srirangam.
Source Encyclopedia of HinduismDenise Cush, Catherine Robinson and Michael York (eds.)
Built as a Vishnu temple and later used as a Buddhist one.
Source The Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismRobert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.
This source names Vishnu directly: "II as a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu, and for the gradual transition to Buddhist use that began after a 1178 Cham attack under King Jayavarman VII, whose wife Indradevi was a devout Mahayana..."
Source Angkor Wat (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names Vishnu directly: "1150 as a state temple dedicated to Vishnu, the largest religious monument the Khmer Empire ever produced and among the largest ever built anywhere by a Hindu kingdom."
Source The Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismRobert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Named as the presiding deity of the graha Budha.
Chaturmasya is traditionally explained as the period during which Vishnu sleeps on the serpent Shesha in the cosmic ocean, waking at its close.
Source A Survey of HinduismKlaus K. Klostermaier
This source names Vishnu directly: "activity, and its presiding deity is Vishnu (Hari)."
Source Muhurta ChintamaniRama Daivajna
This source names Vishnu directly: "Vishvadevas; above all it is sacred to Vishnu."
Source Muhurta ChintamaniRama Daivajna
Garuda is the vahana, the mount, of Vishnu.
Source Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and CivilizationHeinrich Zimmer
Garuda is the eagle who carries Vishnu, king of birds.
Source Encyclopedia of HinduismDenise Cush, Catherine Robinson and Michael York (eds.)
This source names Vishnu directly: "Ramanujan's translation of Nammalvar's Tamil hymns to Vishnu, published by Princeton University Press in 1981, is a primary devotional text in a standard scholarly translation."
Source Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by NammalvarNammalvar, translated by A. K. Ramanujan
Kalki, Figures This source names Vishnu directly: "Kalki is the tenth and final avatar of Vishnu, prophesied rather than yet manifest: Puranic literature describes him as a warrior riding a white horse and wielding a blazing sword, who will appear..."
Source Encyclopedia of HinduismDenise Cush, Catherine Robinson and Michael York (eds.)
Angkor Wat was dedicated to Vishnu, and its galleries carry a bas-relief of the churning of the ocean of milk more than forty metres long.
Source The Civilization of AngkorCharles Higham
This source names Vishnu directly: "group (a Dwadashi), presided over by Vishnu (Hari)."
Source Muhurta ChintamaniRama Daivajna
This source names Vishnu directly: "over by the Vishvadevas and sacred to Vishnu."
Source The Indian CalendarRobert Sewell and Sankara Balkrishna Dikshit
This source names Vishnu directly: "the man lion, is the fourth of Vishnu's ten principal avatars, taken to kill the demon king Hiranyakashipu without breaking a boon that made him unable to be killed by man or beast, by day or night..."
Source Encyclopedia of HinduismDenise Cush, Catherine Robinson and Michael York (eds.)
Onam recalls Vishnu's dwarf avatar Vamana pressing the demon king Mahabali down into the underworld.
Source Encyclopedia of HinduismDenise Cush, Catherine Robinson and Michael York (eds.)
Source UNESCO World Heritage ListUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
This source names Vishnu directly: "from Hindu gods including Durga, Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma as she pursues the demon lord Mahabalasura."
Source Raji: An Ancient Epic (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Named as the presiding deity of the lunar mansion Shravana.
Source History of Dharmasastra, Volume VP. V. Kane
Source Brihat Parashara Hora ShastraSage Parashara (attributed)
This source names Vishnu directly: "state temple, most likely dedicated to Vishnu."
Source Suryavarman II (reference article)Wikipedia contributors
Source Vishnu PuranaAnonymous
This source names Vishnu directly: "needs a primary Purana such as the Vishnu Purana addressed directly."
Source The Mahabharata and the Yugas: India's Great Epic Poem and the Hindu System of World AgesLuis Gonzalez-Reimann
It is Vishnu's abode, and the reason the realm is described at all.
Varada, Mudras Source A Sanskrit-English DictionaryMonier Monier-Williams
Vishnu is worshipped in Varanasi alongside Shiva, including at riverside temples along the ghats.
Source Banaras: City of LightDiana L. Eck
Vishnu, as the tortoise Kurma, bears Mount Mandara on his back during the churning that Vasuki serves as the rope for.
Source Vishnu PuranaAnonymous
This source names Vishnu directly: "the most systematically organized, the Vishnu Purana sets out Vaishnava cosmology, the cyclical structure of time in kalpas, manvantaras and yugas, the genealogies (vamsha) of solar and lunar..."
Source Vishnu PuranaAnonymous
This source names Vishnu directly: "The Vishnu Purana is a primary Sanskrit text presenting Vaishnava cosmology, including the cyclical ages, the yugas, kalpas and manvantaras, and genealogies of gods and kings, cited here in an 1864..."
Source Vishnu PuranaAnonymous