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  • 1. Four Kumaras  – the four Sons of god Brahma and exemplified the path of devotion.

    2. Varaha  the Lord lifted the earth out of the ocean and battled Hiranyaksa.

    3. Narada  the divine-sage who travels the worlds as a devotee of Vishnu

    4. Nara-Narayana  – the twin-sages

    5. Kapila  – a sage and one of the founders of the Samkhya school of philosophy

    6. Dattatreya  – the combined avatar of the Hindu trinity Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. He was born to the sage Atri became a great seer himself.

    7. Yajna  – the lord of fire-sacrifice, who took was the Indra – the lord of heaven

    8. Rishabha  – the father of King Bharata and Bahubali

    9. Prithu – the sovereign-king who milked the earth as a cow to get the world's grain and vegetation and also invented agriculture

    10. Matsya , he appeared to Manu and saved him from the flood.

    11. Kurma , he supported the process of amrit-manthan.

    12. Dhanvantari  – the father of Ayurveda medicine and a physician to the Devas.

    13. Mohini  – the enchantress

    14. Narasimha , he vanquished Hiranyakasipu to save Prahlada, his devotee.

    15. Vamana , he was born to Aditi and brought out the humility in Mahabali.

    16. Parashurama , he cleaned the earth of all Kshatriyas three times over.

    17. Vyasa – the compiler of the scriptures – Vedas and writer of the scriptures Puranas and the epic Mahabharata

    18. Rama , he vanquished the Rakshasa Ravana.

    19. Balarama - brother od Lord Krishna

    20. Krishna , he participated in the Mahabharata and is the protagonist of many stories and parables. Here krishna is not actually an avatar but the original supreme personality of Godhead appears in his original murlidhara form on the earth so he is purna avatara or the original god and source of all incarnations.

    21. Buddha in the beginning of Kali-yuga the Lord will appear as Lord Buddha, the son of Anjana, in the province of Gaya (Bihar) just for the purpose of infatuating those who are envious of the faithful demigods.

    22. Kalki , he will incarnate at the end of the current Kaliyuga with Parashurama as his guru.
    Besides these, another four avatars are described later on in the text as follows:

    1. Prshnigarbha – the son of Prshni
    2. Hayagriva – the horse-faced avatar
    3. Hamsa  – the swan, he expounded on the Vedas to Sage Narada.
    4. Golden incarnation of the Supreme Lord as Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who incarnated in Navadwip. Avatara in Kali-yuga for propagating hari-namasankirtan.
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