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**Explanation<br> *Shuura* = brave/courageous and *Shauri* = son of Shura (Krishna's grandfather Shurasena, father of Vasudeva). Vishnu as Shauri is specifically Krishna in His human lineage — born into the heroic *Yadava* clan through Vasudeva and Devaki. The name celebrates the divine choosing to incarnate in a lineage of heroes.

**Spiritual Interpretation<br> The significance of Vishnu choosing to be born as *Shauri* (of the heroic Shura lineage) is that the divine honors and works through genuine human virtue and strength. The *Yadava* clan's reputation for valor and righteousness was the appropriate human vessel for the supreme divine hero (*Veera*) to inhabit.

**Puranic Reference<br> The Bhagavata Purana (10.1-2) narrates the divine arrangement of Krishna's birth — Vishnu choosing to incarnate through the heroic Vasudeva and divine Devaki, within the confines of Kamsa's prison. The contrast between the humble, constrained circumstances of birth and the infinite divine nature of the infant is one of the most moving moments in all of sacred literature.

**Additional depth<br> *Veerah* repeats here to emphasize the inseparable connection between Vishnu's all-pervasive nature (Vishnu, 658) and His heroic divine power (Veerah, 659) — the all-pervading reality is also the supreme hero who manifests wherever and whenever cosmic heroism is required. The repeated *Veerah* at this point in the text is a devotional affirmation of Vishnu's eternally active, heroically engaged divine nature.

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श्लोक - नाम क्रमांक: 658

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