Lord Vishnu's preserving, protecting powers have been manifested to the world in a variety of forms, called Avtars, in which one or more of his divine attributes were embodied in the shape of a human being or an animal or a human-animal combined form, possessing great and sometimes supernatural powers. All these Avtars of Vishnu appeared in the world either to correct some great evil or to effect some great good on earth. These avtars are ten in number, however, the Bhagwad Purana increases them to twenty two and adds further that are innumerable.

Of the ten universally recognized avtars, nine have already manifested whereas the tenth is yet to appear.

It is important to note that the all the Avtars are earthly form of Lord Vishnu, who himself is eternal, unchangeable and immutable.

Parashurama shows the man of power, Rama the Divine warrior and protector, Krishna the Divine lover, Buddha the Divine sage, and Kalki the completer and saviour . In this scheme we see the idea of the evolution of the soul from the animal re alms to perfect spiritual knowledge.

The idea of the messiah came to the western religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam from the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia. Zoroastrianism has similar incarnations of Vrithragna (Indra). Hence it is related to the avatar idea of the Hindus.

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