Rishabha (Hinduism): Difference between revisions

{{about|usagethe avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism|the founder of Jainism|Rishabhanatha|the solar month in traditional Indian lunisolar calendar|Vṛṣabha}}

| affiliation = [[Tirthankar]]

In [[Hinduism]], '''Rishabha''' is one of the twenty -four [[avatar]]s of [[Vishnu]] in the [[Bhagavata Purana]].<ref name="Matchett">{{cite book|last=Matchett|first=Freda|title=Krishna, Lord or Avatara?: the relationship between Krishna and Vishnu|publisher=9780700712816|year=2001|page=152|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oqTYiPeAxMC&pg=PA152 | isbn=978-0-7007-1281-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Wendy Doniger|title=On Hinduism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUnaAgAAQBAJ |year=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-936009-3|pages=593 note 46}}</ref><ref name=jaini1>{{cite journal|author=PS Jaini|title=Jina Rishabha as an avatar of Vishnu|year= 1977|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | volume=XL| issue=2| pages=321–327}}</ref> Some scholars state thatidentify this avatar isto be the same as the first [[Tirthankaratirthankara]] of Jainism, [[Rishabhanatha]].<ref name=jaini1/><ref>{{cite book|author=D Dennis Hudson|title=The Body of God: An Emperor's Palace for Krishna in Eighth-Century Kanchipuram|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&pg=PA19 |year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-970902-1|pages=19–21}}</ref> [[Shaivism|Shaiva]] texts like the [[Linga Purana]] appropriatedregard TirthankarRishabha Rishabhdevato asbe anamong avatarthe of28 lordavatars of [[Shiva]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalal |first=Roshen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQNgDgAAQBAJzrk0AwAAQBAJ&qdq=lingRishabha+puranLinga+rishabhPurana&pg=PT59PT1143 |title =Hinduism: LingaAn PuranaAlphabetical :Guide लिंग पुराण|isbn date=2014-04-18 9789352618804|last1 publisher=Penguin Vinay|first1UK |isbn=978-81-8475-277-9 Dr|date pages=1143 17 March 2017|language=en}}</ref> Rishabha is also found in [[Vedas|Vedic]] literature, where it means the "bull" and is an epithet for Rudra (Shiva).<ref name="Dalal2010">{{cite book|author=Roshen Dalal|title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC |year= 2010|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-341421-6|page=88}}</ref>

According to [[John E. Cort]] and other scholars, there is a considerable overlap between Jain and Hindu [[Vaishnavism|Vaishnava]] traditions in the western parts of India, with Hindus adopting Jain sacred figures in Hindu texts like [[Rishabha]] and his son [[Bharata Chakravartin|Bharata]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John E. Cort|authorlink=John E. Cort|title=Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip7mCwAAQBAJ|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-513234-2|pages=23, 108–118, 135}}</ref><ref>Padmanabh S. Jaini (1977), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/615287 Jina Ṛṣabha as an Avatāra of Viṣṇu], Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 40, No. 2 (1977), pp. 321-337</ref>

==Vedic Literatureliterature==

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* [[Bharata Chakravartin(Jainism)]]

* {{citation |last=Bloomfield |first=Maurice | author-link=Maurice Bloomfield |title=A Vedic Concordance: Being an Alphabetic Index to Every Line of Every Stanza of the Published Vedic Literature and to the Liturgical Formulas Thereof|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5dEAQAAMAAJ |year=1906|publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9788120806542 }}

[[Category:FormsAvatars of Vishnu]]

[[Category:IkshvakuSolar dynasty]]