Avatar
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Avatar is the incarnation or incarnated manifestation of a Hindu deity, a theory both characteristic of Vishnuism and marking a new epoch in the religious development of India.[1]
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- â Nuttall Encyclopedia of General Knowledge, article on Avatar originally published in 1907 written by Reverend James Wood