<P> The Puranas speak of the different manifestations or incarnations of the Deity in different epochs of the world history . Lo! The Hindu Avatar rises from the lowest scale of life through the fish, the tortoise, and the hog up to the perfection of humanity . Indian Avatarism is, indeed, a crude representation of the ascending scale of Divine creation . Such precisely is the modern theory of evolution . </P> <P> Similarly Aurobindo regarded "Avataric Evolutionism" as a "parable of evolution", one which does not endorse evolutionism, but hints at "transformative phases of spiritual progress". According to Nanda, the Dashavatara concept has led to some Hindus asserting that their religion is more open to scientific theories, and has not opposed or persecuted scientists midst them like the way Christianity and Islam has . But, adds Nanda, Hinduism has many cosmological theories and even the Vaishnava one with Dashavatara concept does not explicitly teach evolution of species, rather it states an endless cycles of creationism . </P> <P> The Dashavatara concept appealed to other scholars . Monier Monier - Williams wrote "Indeed, the Hindus were...Darwinians centuries before the birth of Darwin, and evolutionists centuries before the doctrine of evolution had been accepted by the Huxleys of our time, and before any word like evolution existed in any language of the world ." J.B.S. Haldane suggested that Dashavatara gave a "rough idea" of vertebrate evolution: a fish, a tortoise, a boar, a man - lion, a dwarf and then four men (Kalki is not yet born). Nabinchandra Sen explains the Dashavatara with Darwin's evolution in his Raivatak . C.D. Deshmukh also remarked on the "striking" similarity between Darwin's theory and the Dashavatara . </P> <P> Some Vaishnava Hindus reject this "Avataric Evolutionism" concept . For example, ISKCON's Prakashanand states that this apologeticism degrades the divine status of Rama and Krishna, unduly sequences Rama as inferior to Krishna, both to the Buddha . Rama and Krishna are supremely divine, each right and perfect for the circumstances they appeared in, states Prakashanand . </P>

Which one is the first avatar of lord vishnu from his dashavatar