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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN<br />

We skip the first two avatars which pictures a war in the sea and the sea-shore and start only with the Boar<br />

avatar.. The story starts with the two sons of Kasyapa and Aditi. The eldest son Hiranyakshu was killed by<br />

the Boar Avatar.<br />

PRAHALADA<br />

VIROCHANA<br />

MAHABALI<br />

RAVANA<br />

Asura Genealogy targeted by Vishnu to be killed in a sequence of incarnations.<br />

In the sequence of 10 avatars, the middle four incarnations are historically and geographically traces how<br />

the Asura Kings were defeated by trickery from the Northern most Kingdom of Taxila to the end of the<br />

<strong>Indian</strong> Peninsula upto Sri Lanka. as shown below.<br />

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