A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore ... the figure would have once held a conch, a symbol of the god’s divine authority which, when blown, was thought to produce ...

Hindu mythology answers this through two powerful forces—Vishnu, the preserver ... This cosmic dance is a symbol of ...

This transformation laid the foundation for Advaita Vedanta and other schools of Hindu philosophy that saw gods as symbols of ...