What's the difference between vaishnavism and vishnu?

Vaishnavism


Definition:

  • (n.) The worship of Vishnu.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The BJP has performed remarkably well in state elections dating back to late 2013 by leading with governance and development while opportunistically spreading its message of cultural nationalism,” said Milan Vaishnav, associate in the south Asia programme at the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • (2) Vaishnav points to a blurring of the divide between town and country in India , and says surveys show voters everywhere share the same preoccupations of jobs, corruption and price rises.
  • (3) I think Modi surprised everyone by, with very little hesitation, embracing the United States,” said Milan Vaishnav, a South Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • (4) "A lot of the dole programmes are very popular, but just not enough any more," said Milan Vaishnav, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • (5) Milan Vaishnav, an associate on South Asia at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said from his understanding it’s a “pro forma” summons, and there’s no judge’s ruling of prima facie evidence on complicity in the Gujarat violence.
  • (6) There’s no question it’s precisely the wrong foot on which to begin Modi’s visit to the United States,” Vaishnav said, but predicted it would just get a brief flurry of attention.
  • (7) "The traditional hypothesis is that urbanisation is part of a modernisation process, which involves an inevitable moving away from traditional affiliations of community such as religion and caste," said Vaishnav.
  • (8) "There is no question that, as an India-wide phenomenon, there is a growing questioning of the vertical hierarchies of social relations that have resisted for decades," said Milan Vaishnav, a specialist on India's political economy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Vishnu


Definition:

  • (n.) A divinity of the modern Hindu trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vishnu Tatikonda, a 33-year-old electrician from Karimnagar district in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said he paid 65,000 INR (£645) to an agent in India for a visa, tickets and a placement with a subcontractor for a major construction firm in Qatar who would pay him a monthly salary of 1,200 QAR (£205).
  • (2) "The upside surprise in China's manufacturing PMI is welcome, and should help quell excessive fears of a 'hard landing' in China ," said Vishnu Varathan, an economist with Mizuho in Singapore.
  • (3) These results indicate that Vishnu promotes increased cleavage rates of embryos in vitro.
  • (4) Vishnu Sharma, the president of the Indian Workers' Association, Southall, said in a statement that "if anyone would have liked to see the police state in total operation he should have been in Southall today."
  • (5) We're working closely with local authorities to address the situation," Google's head of communications for Indonesia , Vishnu Mahmud said in a statement to the AFP.
  • (6) Cells were cultured in various concentrations of three different amphipathic peptides (SB-37, Shiva-1, and Vishnu), and enhanced proliferation was determined by uptake of 3H-thymidine with treated cells compared with control cultures.
  • (7) Statistical analysis revealed that culture in all three levels of Vishnu significantly accelerated in vitro growth of these stages of preimplantation embryos compared with controls.
  • (8) The suggestions received by the panel in the past few months have ranged from the outlandish – a London Eye-like installation called the Sudarshan Chakra, the spinning disc of death wielded by the god Vishnu – to the everyday: most people asked for parks and promenades and water transport.
  • (9) They were Michael Arnold, 59; Sylvia Frasier, 53; Kathy Gaarde, 62; John Roger Johnson, 73; Frank Kohler, 50; Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46; and Vishnu Pandit, 61.
  • (10) The primary study consisted of 263 four-cell- to eight-cell-stage mouse embryos from naturally bred mice and incubated in Whitten's medium containing 0.2, 1, or 10 microM of the amino terminus of an amphipathic cecropin B analog (Vishnu) or in Whitten's medium alone.
  • (11) Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of Trabala vishnu Lef.
  • (12) Villagers frequently stumble across finds, recently some bronze, copper and sandstone statues of Hindu gods Vishnu, Shiva and Lakshmi.
  • (13) The crown alleges that he, Zac King, 21, Vishnu Wood, 23, Jack Locke, 18, and Colin Goff, 24, took part in violent disorder which engulfed parts of central London on a day when a minority of participants in a 10,000-strong protest clashed with police.
  • (14) The curious thing is that the very people who would indulge in such gold-medal winning bouts of sneering are also the ones who would venerate the culinary culture of the Dordogne or Burgundy; who would build a shrine to the books of Elizabeth David , complete with candles and incense, as if she were Jesus, Buddha and Vishnu rolled into one.

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