Avatar-4-Narasimha

//Narasimha//



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=== Narasimha is a fierce man-lion he holds a [|mace], [|lotus flower], [|chakram]and a [|conch shell]. He is also very very strong that no one can kill or hurt him. Also, in most of the pictures he is eating the demon Hiranyakashipu. === = =

Narasimhas symbols are.....

 * **Lotus flower-royalty**
 * **Chakram- (disc blade** ) **destruction**
 * **Mace- destruction**
 * **[|Discus throw]-(disk) creation and destruction**

media type="youtube" key="ydIe0xMngAw" height="291" width="411" align="left" === === === **The Demon [|Hiranyakshas] brother [|Hiranyakashipu] was mad and gained power from Brahma by undergoing many years of penance so that he could take revenge on Vishnu. [|Lord Brahma] gave him a boon that** ===
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[[image:svdphindumythology2012/tapiaj-_hiran.jpeg width="146" height="164" align="right" caption="Hiranyakashipu"]]
=== ** Hiranyakashipu could not be killed by anything. After getting a Boon Hiranyakashyap returned to his kingdom and began to trouble the Gods. He also declared himself as God and ordered all to worship him. When his son [|Prahlada] told him that Vishnu is the only God and cannot accept his father as God and he tried to kill Prahlada. The servants threw Prahlada from top of mountains but nothing could hurt him. Prahlada that is Vishnu present in this pillar and took his mace to hit the pillar. Lord Vishnu emer-** ===

**ged from the pillar in his incarnation as Lord Narasimha. The Demon King hit Narasimha with his**
=== **mace but Narasimha brushed it away. Narasimha caught hold of the demon Hiranyakashipu and sat in the court room, placed the demon on his thighs, and dug his nails into the body and broke open his stomach killing him.** ===

**//__Prayers to lord Narasimha (English Version)__//** ** "Lord Narasimha is here and also there. Wherever I go Lord Narasimha is there. He is in the heart and is outside as well. surrender to Lord Narasimha, the origin of all things and the supreme refuge." ** media type="youtube" key="6QuyuW_j2UM" height="302" width="355" align="right" ** "O Kesava! O Lord of the universe. O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of half-man, half-lion! All glories to You! Just as one can easily crush a wasp between one's fingernails, so in the same way the body of the wasp like demon, Hiranyakasipu has been ripped apart by the wonderful pointed nails on your **** beautiful lotus hands." (from the Dasavatara-stotra composed by [|Jayadeva] **

** "O Kamasikha Narasimha! You are //sarva sakthan// . When you are resolved to protect some ** ** need to seek the protection of anyone else? When you are resolved not to protect some one, which other person is capable of protecting us?. There is no one. Knowing this fundamental truth, I have resolved to offer my [|saranagati]at your lotus feet alone that rest at the banks of Vegavathi river." **

//__Sources__//

=== "Narasimha."//Webonautics, Hindu Mythology And The Indian Way Of Life.//15 February 2012. Web.13 March 2012 [|.]. ===

Narasimha.//Antaryami, A Mirror To Sri Vaishnava World//.5 December 2011. Web. 8 March 2012
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