A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine ...

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The idol, identified as depicting Lord Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar ... comes shortly after the department shifted another ancient sculpture—a Surya idol made of khondalite stone—from ...

A lecturer at Raichur University, Dr Padmaja Desai, shared that the idol of Lord Vishnu must have been a part of the sanctum sanctorum of a temple. An ancient statue of Lord Vishnu featuring all ...