Hindu Pantheonweapon
Sudarshana Chakra
- Perfect Tracking
- Evil Destruction
- Solar Fire
- Infinite Range
Vishnu's divine spinning discus with 108 serrated edges, blazing with the fire of the sun. It destroys evil, protects devotees, and can pursue enemies across any distance.
About Sudarshana Chakra
Vishnu's spinning disk
The Mahabharata and the Puranas give Vishnu — and Krishna as his form — the Sudarshana chakra: a fiery, returning disk. Krishna beheads Śiśupāla with it; it can be sent after a foe. Vishvakarma as maker is a Puranic workshop note, not a Vedic hymn. Later tantric personification of Sudarshana as a separate deity is a further development; it is not the epic weapon's first shape. No archaeological chakra in a treasury is the original. The disk is Vaishnava epic and temple image.
Origin
Created by Vishwakarma, the divine architect, from the dust of the sun and scraps from Shiva's trident.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Mahabharata, Sabha Parva (Śiśupāla-vadha)
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