Rishabha (Hinduism): Difference between revisions

[http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/0200/mw__0259.html Rishabha] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050125045058/http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/0200/mw__0259.html |date=25 January 2005 }}, Monier Monier-Williams, Sanskrit English Dictionary and Etymology, Oxford University Press, page 226, 3rd column</ref>{{refn|group=note|For example: '''ऋषभं''' मा समानानां सपत्नानां विषासहिम् । हन्तारं शत्रूणां कृधि विराजं गोपतिं गवाम् ॥१॥ – Rigveda 10.166.1<ref>[https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/ऋग्वेद:_सूक्तं_१०.१६६ ऋग्वेद: सूक्तं १०.१६६] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525022854/http://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6:_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%82_%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%A6.%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AC%E0%A5%AC |date=25 May 2011 }}, Rigveda, Wikisource</ref> Other examples of Rishabha appearing in the Vedic literature include verses 6.16.47 of Rigveda, 9.4.14–15 of Atharvaveda, 3.7.5.13 and 4.7.10.1 of Taittiriya Brahmana, etc.{{sfn|Bloomfield|1906|p=293}}}} Elsewhere it is an epithet for the Hindu god [[Shiva]] (Rudra).

 

 

{{sfn|Dalal|2010|p=88}} According to the ''[[Bhagavata Purana]]'' text, [[Rishabha (Hinduism)|Rishabha]] is an avatar of [[Vishnu]]. According to D. Dennis Hudson, this interpretation of Rishabha as an Avatar might have developed during the same period when the details and stories of Jina Rishabha were constructed.{{sfn|Hudson|2008|pp=19–22}}