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Encyclopedia > Keshava

Keshava and Keshav (Sanskrit: केशव) are alternate names for Lord Krishna from within Hindu tradition. Keshava is the Sanskrit form of the name, Keshav the Hindi pronunciation. Keshava appears as the 23rd and 648th names in the Vishnu sahasranama. Kesava (Sanskrit) is the first of the 24 epithets of Lord Krishna. Sanskrit ( , for short ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ... This article is about the Hindu deity. ... Bhavna says there are 300 million gods in Hinduism. ... The Vishnu sahasranāma (literally: the thousand names of Vishnu) is a list of 1,000 names for Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism and the Supreme Person for Vaishnavas (followers of Vishnu). ...


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Vishnu Sahasranama

According to Adi Sankara' s commentary on the Vishnu sahasranama, Keshava has three meanings: The Vishnu sahasranāma (literally: the thousand names of Vishnu) is a list of 1,000 names for Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism and the Supreme Person for Vaishnavas (followers of Vishnu). ...

  • one whose Kesa or locks are beautiful
  • The Lord of creation, preservation, and dissolution.
  • one who destroyed the asura or demon Kesi in the Krishna avatar.

It also means // In Hinduism In Hindu mythology, the Asura (Sanskrit: असुर) are a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes misleadingly referred to as demons. ...

  • one who is endowed with the rays of light spreading within the orbit of the sun
  • one who is endowed with divine powers of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
  • child who is blessed with amazing ability

Padma Purana

  • The one with beautiful long hair

According to the Padma Purana the name refers to Krishna's long, beautiful looking hair. Padma Purana (Devanagari: पद्म पुराण), one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, is divided into five parts. ...


Bhagavad Gita

  • Killer of the Keśī demon

In the Bhagavad Gita Arjuna uses the name for Krishna a number of times, referring to Him as the 'Killer of the Kesi demon' : I am now unable to stand here any longer. I am forgetting myself, and my mind is reeling. I see only causes of misfortune, O Kesava, killer of the Keśī demon. (Bhagavad Gita 1.30). The demon Kesi, in the form of a horse, was sent by Kamsa to kill Krishna but was overpowered and slain (Vishnu Purana 5.15-16). Bhagavad Gīta भगवद्गीता, composed ca the fifth - second centuries BC, is part of the epic poem Mahabharata, located in the Bhisma-Parva chapters 23–40. ...


References

  • Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (ISBN 0-500-51088-1) by Anna Dhallapiccola

See also

This article is about the Hindu deity. ... Krsnas name is Govinda. ... Madhava is another name for Vishnu and appears as the 72nd, 167th and 735th names in the Vishnu sahasranama. ... Gopala was an Indian mathematician, who studied the Fibonacci numbers in 1135, more than half a century before Fibonacci popularized these numbers in Europe. ... Deities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu (right) and Sri Nityananda (left) at Radha-Krishna temple in Radhadesh, Belgium Caitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Chaitanya) (1486 - 1534), was an ascetic Hindu monk and social reformer in 16th century Bengal, India (present-day West Bengal and Bangladesh). ...

External links

  • Krishna.com
  • The Killing of the Kesi Demon

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Kaginele Adi Keshava (2087 words)
H was essentially, a Madhva mystic seeing the manifestation of Keshava in the meanest creation as well as in the highest, coloured by all the attributes of God and partaking of divine powers.
There is a popular story that Kanaka being rejected entrace at the temple at Udipi, went round the Prakaram and burst in tears of song, appealing to the Lord to give darshan when the idol turned round, made a slit in the wall where Kanaka sat and give darshan to him.
Most of the compositions of Kanaka have the Mudrika Kagineleyadi Keshava There is a class of compositions called Kanaka Mundige full of abstract imagery, subtlety of metaphysics and inscrtable implications, challenging the finest in the Bhakta.
Guruvayur (2450 words)
Whenever Keshava was to carry the deity, he would demonstrate his eagerness to perform his service by pulling at the chains that bound his feet.
Keshava had come to pay his last respects to a master that he clearly loved very deeply.
Keshava is not remembered simply as an unusual elephant, but as a person---a spiritual being who had awakened his divine love for God.
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