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Glossary Term

Risk: Critical
Approved rendering
देहधारणम्
Transliteration
dehadhāraṇam
Rejected alternatives
अवतारः

Incarnation

CRITICAL: NEVER अवतारः. This is the most textually explicit rejection in this whole Language Package: avatāra theology is not vague cultural background but an explicit doctrine with its own scriptural proof-text, Bhagavad Gītā 4.7-8 (‘yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati… tadātmānaṃ sṛjāmyaham,’ ‘whenever dharma declines, I manifest myself’), and a canonical list of instances (Viṣṇu’s daśāvatāra). देहधारणम् (‘taking on a body’) must be explicitly taught, every time, as the eternal Son’s unique, permanent, once-for-all assumption of human nature — categorically different from a periodic, repeatable, dharma-restoring divine descent with named prior and future instances.

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