![]() Vyasa: The sage who composed the Mahabharata.Each represents a different attribute of man, which as long as they live, will exist amongst humanity. There are others as well, which are not included in the one particular shloka. The extant Puranas, the Ramayana, and the Mahabharata describe seven long-lived personalities in the Hindu pantheon. In one sense immortal can mean "to live eternally until the destruction of universes", i.e., all physical bodies are foretold to become immaterial at the end of time, along with the Brahma himself, with the destruction of the universe. ![]() Incarnations of Vishnu ( Narasimha and Rama) also later fought and killed two asuras, Hiranyakasipu and Ravana, who tried to become immortal through obeisance to Brahma and Shiva, respectively. The scripture was retrieved by the first avatar ( Matsya) of Vishnu. At the end of the last Manvantara, a demon attempted to become immortal by swallowing the sacred pages of Vedas, as they escaped from the mouth of Brahma. It is similar to amaratva, which refers to true immortality. The term is a combination of chiram, or 'permanent', and jīvi, or 'lived'. Left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Vyasa, Parashurama wielding his axe, Hanuman figurine from the Chola dynasty, Shiva saving his devotee Markandeya, Kripa as an Indonesian play puppet, Vibhishana as an Indonesian play puppet, Ashwatthama employs the Narayanastra, and Mahabali grants an audience to a disguised Indra Etymology and scriptural context Scenes from Hindu mythology depicted in art. ![]()
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