The Hindu Temple v2.c12.59

v2.c12.59

But for the trident no other weapons are seen now in the hands of the image. The Viṣṇu hands might have held the disc and the club. The weapons held in the hands of the images of the gods represent portions of the unbearable power of the Sun which Viśvakarman had sliced away from it. Viśvakarman made the disc of Viṣṇu, the trident for Śiva and other weapons for these and the other gods out of the particles of Power that he took away from the Sun (cf. ‘Matsya Purāṇa’, XI. 27-30).