Jagadisha

(“Lord of the Universe”) Epithet of the
regional deity Jagannath, and by extension the god Vishnu, to whom
Jagannath has been connected as a form
of Krishna, the eighth avatar or incarnation of Vishnu. Jagadisha is the name
given to Jagannath in the Dashavatara
Stotra, the opening hymn in the
Gitagovinda, a lyric devotional poem
composed by the poet Jayadeva. In
modern northern India, the name
Jagadisha is used in one of the most
popular and best-known devotional
hymns, the Jagadisha Arati, a hymn
directed more particularly to Vishnu.