The Dasha Avatar is based on ancient Indian story of the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu who descends to the terrestrial world to establish stability and order, time and again. The avatars occur in a sequence - the first was as a fish representing life in water, followed by a turtle signifying life in water and on land, then a boar alluding to terrestrial life and so on. The sequence of the avatars could be taken to symbolise various stages in the evolution of life culminating in the advent of the perfect being.
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