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The Development of Hindu Iconography c7.63

The Development of Hindu Iconography c7.63

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c7.63

Viṣṇu Caturmūrti (Caturvyūha), a concept peculiar to the Pāñcarātrins illustrated by some four-faced Viṣṇu images of parts of Northern India, mostly Kashmir,—the ideology behind them explained in the Viṣṇudharmottara, 408-10. Caturviṃśatimūrtis of Viṣṇu, the mode of distinguishing one from the other, 410-12.