Nārāyaṇa
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Svayambhū · the Self-existent
in the texts
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The cosmic Self-existent (Svayambhū) whose gross body constitutes the fourteen worlds and from whom Brahmā and all individual beings and subtle bodies proceed.
And precisely because the individual puruṣas are divided off from that primal {{puruṣa|Person}}, and because at the end they dissolve back into that very [one], he alone is spoken of in śruti and smṛti as "the one Self.
And this {{liṅgaśarīra|subtle body}} arises first as one alone, [serving] as the limiting adjunct of the Self-existent (svayambhū)—like his gross body, called the Cosmic Form (virāṭ), to be described [below].
And so that Nārāyaṇa, possessed of the Cosmic Form (virāṭ), having created upon Sumeru—which occupies the place of the pericarp of the lotus of his navel—the Self-existent called the Four-faced [Brahmā], by means of him created also the other individual embodied beings, down to the stationary [ones].
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A name of Viṣṇu, invoked as a simile for the fully armed Kumbhakarṇa.
His body bound with every ornament, spear in hand, that rākṣasa, his valour akin to that of the three-striding one, appeared like Nārāyaṇa himself.