12/16/2023 0 Comments Om namo narayanaya meaning![]() I am king Vaisravana, and I am Yama, the lord of the deceased spirits. I am Vishnu, I am Brahma and I am Shankara, the chief of the gods. ![]() I am the Creator of all things, and the Destroyer also of all. I am Narayana, the Source of all things, the Eternal, the Unchangeable. The waters are called narah, (for) the waters are, indeed, the offspring of Nara as they were his first residence (ayana), he thence is named Narayana. Narayan Aiyangar states the meaning of the Sanskrit word 'Narayana' can be traced back to the Laws of Manu (also known as the Manusmriti, a Dharmaśāstra text), which states: He quotes, "This Nārāyana of the Āryan pantheon seems to be the supreme being of the Mohenjo-Darians, a god who was probably styled Ān, a name still kept in Tamil literature as Āndivanam, the prototype of the historic Siva". He asserts that this is also the reason why Narayana is represented as lying on a serpent in the sea. To this end, he states that the etymology of the deity is associated with the Dravidian nara, meaning ‘water’, ay, which in Tamil means "to lie in a place", and an, which is the masculine termination in Dravidian languages. Keny proposes that Narayana was associated with the Dravidian, and ultimately, the Indus Valley Civilisation, prior to his syncretism with Vishnu. ![]() He is also known as Purushottama, and is considered the Supreme Being in Vaishnavism. In this form, the deity is depicted in yogic slumber under the celestial waters, symbolising the masculine principle and associated with his role of creation. Narayana ( Sanskrit: नारायण, romanized: Nārāyaṇa) is one of the forms and epithets of Vishnu.
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