In the Rigveda, Indra murders the boar Emusha so that this god can steal odaná, a rice porridge. The Purusha myth resembles a passage from the Shatapatha (“shuh-TUH-puh-tuh”) Brāhmaṇa in which the defeated devas sacrifice this god’s body to get a portion of the world from the victorious asuras. This god’s Rigvedic epithet urugāyá, meaning “wide-ranging,” refers to how he reached the heavens with a sequence of three deeds called the trivikrama (“tree-VICK-ruh-muh”). In a much later myth, this god avenges a defeat of Indra’s by approaching a yajña, receiving holy water despite the protests of Shukrācārya (“shoo-krah-CHAR-yuh”), and receiving a boon. Thereafter, this god metes out the world with his three strides and banishes the daitya (“DAIT-yuh”) king Mahābalī to the shadow realm pātāla. For 10 points, name this Hindu god who manifests as the dwarf Vāmana, the fifth of his ten avatars. ■END■
ANSWER: Vishnu [or Viṣṇu; accept Vāmana until read]
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