Main Indiex - Incarnations

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Hierarchy of Incarnations

Purusa-avataras

Guna-avataras - Visnu, Brahma and Siva

Dasavatara - Ten Primary Visnu Incarnations
Invertebrate - Matsya
Testaceous, shelly - Kurma
Vertebrate - Varaha
Crectly vertebrate, half man, half beast - Narasimha
Manikin - Vamana
Barbaric - Parasurama
Civilized - Ramacandra
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Wise - Krsna
Ultra-wise - Buddha
Destructive - Kalki

Lila-avataras

Virat-purusa - The Universal Form

Manvantara-avataras

Yuga-avataras

Shaktyavesa-avataras