According to Hindu mythology, Chaturmurti refers to a deity form with four heads. It is often used for the name of Brahma, who is described as having four faces in Puranic literatures. But most of the times Chaturmurti is referred to a particular form of Lord Vishnu.

This composite aspect of Vishnu has four faces with a body of human being and heads of a man, a lion, a boar and a rakshasa(demon). This form of Vishnu signifies four manifestations in the forms of Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Sankarshana (Balarama) and Aniruddha. The human face Vasudeva is at the centre, flanked on right and left respectively by a lion and a boar (Aniruddha and Sankarshana), while on the back the face is of a griming Rakshasa (Pradyumna). Chaturmurti is often depicted with four arms also.