The 24 murthis of Vishnu you must be familiar with

The 24 murthis of Vishnu you must be familiar with

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Perhaps the most popular sahasranama is the Vishnu Sahasranama which gives out thousand different names of Vishnu. Even within these thousand names, it is the set of twenty-four names that is most widely recited and considered the most important one. Every name of this deity [and most others also] has distinct meaning and dimension. Very few temples posses the right iconography to depict that distinct rupa. Amongst such temples, the ones built by the Hoysalas stand tallest. Every panel of a Hoysala temple narrates a unique story. One of the most fascinating set of sculptures in the Indian temple architecture is the twenty-four images of Vishnu found on the walls of most of the Vaishnava Hoysala temples.
These images usually have Vishnu standing on his feet with four arms of his holding shankha, chakra, gada and padma in different orders, in accordance with the Vaishnava rupamandana. The permutation of these four ayudhas with four hands of Vishnu is depicted brilliantly in as many sculptures of Vishnu in one of the most exquisitely built Hoysala temple at Hosaholalu. A few images of the same are reported here.(We couldn’t get all the 24 murthis, only 17 are available here) On the next page is the table showing the name of the rupa for different permutation of the four ayudhas in four hands.

1. Keshava

2. Narayana

3. Madhava

4. Govinda

5. Vishnu

6. Madhusudana

7. Trivikarma

8. Vamana

9. Sridhara

10. Padmanabha, Hrshikesha

11. Samkarshana

12. Vasudeva

13. Aniruddha

14. Purushottama

15. Achyuta, Narasimha, Adhokshaja

16. Janardhana

17. Shri Krshna

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  No.	Name	Position of ayudha on different hands
  		Back right	Back left	Front left	Front right
  1	Keshava	Shankha	Chakra	Gada	Padma
  2	Narayana	Padma	Gada	Chakra	Shankha
  3	Madhava	Chakra	Shankha	Padma	Gada
  4	Govinda	Gada	Padma	Shankha	Chakra
  5	Vishnu	Padma	Shankha	Chakra	Gada
  6	Madhusudhana	Shankha	Padma	Gada	Chakra
  7	trivikrama	Gada	Chakra	Shankha	Padma
  8	Vamana	Chakra	Gada	Padma	Shankha
  9	Shridhara	Chakra	Gada	Shankha	Padma
  10	Hrshikesha	Chakra	Padma	Shankha	Gada
  11	Padmanabha	Padma	Chakra	Gada	Shankha
  12	Damodara	Shankha	Gada	Chakra	Padma
  13	Samkarshana	Shankha	Padma	Chakra	Gada
  14	Vasudeva	Shankha	Chakra	Padma	Gada
  15	Pradyumna	Shankha	Gada	Padma	Chakra
  16	Aniruddha	Gada	Shankha	Padma	Chakra
  17	Purushottama	Padma	Shankha	Gada	Chakra
  18	Adhokshaja	Gada	Shankha	Chakra	Padma
  19	Nrsimha	Padma	Gada	Shankha	Chakra
  20	Achyuta	Padma	Chakra	Shankha	Gada
  21	Janardhana	Chakra	Shankha	Gada	Padma
  22	Upendra	Gada	Chakra	Padma	Shankha
  23	Hari	Chakra	Padma	Gada	Shankha
  24	Shri Krshna	Gada	Padma	Chakra	Shankha