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020 _a978-81-307-0908-6
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_a294.5512
_bKAP
100 _aKapoor Subodh
245 _aA Short introduction to Vaisnavism /
_cSubodh Kapoor.
250 _a1st ed.
_b2008.
260 _aNew Delhi.
_bCosmo Publications;
_c2008.
300 _a157 p . ;
_bhardbound
_c14x22cm
505 _acontents.
520 _aVaishnavas worship Vishnu in his various forms and are one of the three major groups of hinduism, the others being Shaivas and Shaktas. In the trinity of Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, Vishnu is the Sattva quality of a centripetal tendency towards light and truth, which holds the universe together by pervading all existence.
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_cBK