Form of Visnu as guru

[Deshpande, Madhav]

Hello Jenni,

     The prime-time form of Visnu as a Guru is that of Krishna as the teacher of Arjuna.  This form, normally called pArthasArathi, is widely worshipped especially in South India.  I typed 'Parthasarathi' on Google image search, and several temple photos showed up.

Madhav M. Deshpande
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-----Original Message-----
From: Indology on behalf of Jenni Cover
Sent: Sun 5/21/2006 7:34 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Form of Visnu as guru
 
Greetings,

Daksinamurti is the form of Siva as guru. Can anyone please enlighten me
about a form (murti) of Visnu as guru? Is there a particular sampradaya that
worships Visnu in this form? Are there any good books/papers/web-sites etc.
on this subject?

Thankyou,
Jenni Cover
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Australia