and i always heard 10
Actually i gave you answer according to
Dashhaavtaar
and he gave you answer according to
Bhagwat purana.
According to Dashaavtaar these are the ones
1. Matsya, the fish-avatar who saved Manu - the progeniter of mankind from the great deluge and rescued the Vedic scriptures by killing a demon
2. Kurma, the tortoise-avatar, who helped in the Samudra manthan - the churning of the ocean
3. Varaha, the boar-avatar, who rescued the earth from the ocean, by killing her kidnapper-demon Hiranyaksha
4. Narasimha, the half man-half lion avatar, who killed the tyrant demon-king Hiranyakashipu, to rescue the demon's son Prahlada, who was a Vishnu-devotee
5. Vamana, the dwarf-avatar, who defeated the demon-king Bali
6. Parashurama, sage with the axe who killed the thousand-armed king Kartavirya Arjuna
7. Rama, the king of Ayodhya and the hero of the Hindu epic Ramayana
8. Krishna, the king of Dwarka, a central character in the Bhagavata Purana and the Mahabharata and reciter of Bhagavad Gita
9. Gautama Buddha[18][19][20][21] [22][23][24][25] [26][27][28][29][30]
10. Kalki ("Eternity", or "time", or "The Destroyer of foulness"), who is expected to appear at the end of Kali Yuga.
In the Bhagavata Purana
Mohini, the only female avatar of Vishnu
As many as forty specific avatars of Vishnu are mentioned in the Bhagavata Purana, though the book adds that the number is innumerable.[33] Twenty-two avatars of Vishnu are listed numerically in the first book:[34]
1. Four Kumaras [BP 1.3.6] - the four Sons of god Brahma
2. Varaha [BP 1.3.7]
3. Narada [BP 1.3.8] the divine-sage who travels the worlds as a devotee of Vishnu
4. Nara-Narayana [BP 1.3.9] - the twin-sages
5. Kapila [BP 1.3.10] - a sage and one of the founders of the Samkhya school of philosophy
6. Dattatreya [BP 1.3.11] - the combined avatar of the Hindu trinity Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
7. Yajna [BP 1.3.12] - the lord of fire-sacrifice, who took was the Indra - the lord of heaven
8. Rishabha [BP 1.3.13] - the father of King Bharata and Bahubali
9. Prithu [BP 1.3.14] - the sovereign-king who milked the earth as a cow to get the world's grain and vegetation and also invented agriculture
10. Matsya [BP 1.3.15]
11. Kurma [BP 1.3.16]
12. Dhanvantari [BP 1.3.17] - the father of Ayurveda medicine
13. Mohini [BP 1.3.17] - the enchantress
14. Narasimha[BP 1.3.18]
15. Vamana [BP 1.3.19]
16. Parasurama [BP 1.3.20]
17. Vyasa [BP] 1.3.21] - the compiler of the scriptures - Vedas and writer of the scriptures Puranas and the epic Mahabharata
18. Rama [BP 1.3.22]
19. Balarama [BP 1.3.23]
20. Krishna [BP 1.3.23]
21. Buddha [BP 1.3.24]
22. Kalki [BP 1.3.25]
Besides these, another four avatars are described later on in the text as follows:
1. Prshnigarbha [BP 10.3.41] - the son of Prshni
2. Hayagriva [BP 2.7.11] - the horse-faced avatar
3. Hamsa [BP 11.13.19] - the swan
4. Golden avatra [BP 11.5.32] - the avatara in Kali-yuga for propagating hari-namasankirtan
