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Essay name: Vaishnava Myths in the Puranas

Author: Kum. Geeta P. Kurandwad
Affiliation: Karnatak University / Department of Sanskrit

The essay studies the Vaishnava Myths in the Puranas by exploring the significance of the ten principal incarnations of Lord Vishnu as depicted in various ancient Indian texts like the Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas. The research also investigates the social, political, philosophical, and religious impact.

Chapter 4 - Significance of Vaishnava Myths

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Narasimha was extolled on the death of the demon king Hiranyakasipu
at his hands.
The manifestation of Narasimha form of Lord Visṇu is described
in an extra-ordinary manner in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Being very
much angry at Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu asks to show his Lord Viṣṇu
and nocked the pillar near by his fist at that moment itself. Here a
detail description of Narasimha's killing of Hiranyakasipu is
narrated. Throwing down, at the entrance on his thighs, The demon
who was impatient at having been caught and was wriggling all over,
and whose skin had remained unscratched as a serpent would knock
down a rat, Lord Narasimha tare him with his claws in sport even
as Garuḍa would tear a most venemous Snake. 149 licking with his
tongue the corners of his gaping mouth, the Lord, whose frightful
eyes were difficult to gaze at due to fury and whose maners and
countenance had turned reddish, stained as they were with drops of
blood, and who wore a garland of entrails, shone as a lion would by
having killed an elephant. 150 Casting off the demon, whose lotus like
heart had been split upon by His pointed claws, the Lord, endowed
as He was with a multitude of stout arms, slew with his nails,
149. विष्वक� स्फुरन्त� ग्रहणातुरं हरिव्यलो यथाऽखं कुलिशाक्षतत्वरम् �
द्वार्यु� आपात्य ददार लीलय� नखैर्यथाहि� गरुड� महाविषम् �
[viṣvak sphuranta� grahaṇātura� harivyalo yathā'kha� kuliśākṣatatvaram |
dvāryura āpātya dadāra līlayā nakhairyathāhi� garuḍo mahāviṣam ||
]
Bhagavat Mahapurāṇam, Part I, C.I. Goswami, Gita Press, Gorakhpur,
1971, VIII.29. p.762.
150. संरम्भदुष्प्रेक्ष्यकराललोचनो व्यात्ताननान्त� विलिहन� स्वजिह्वया �
असृग्लवात्कारुणकेसरानन� यथान्त्रमाली द्विपहत्यय� हरिः || [saṃrambhaduṣprekṣyakarālalocano vyāttānanānta� vilihan svajihvayā |
asṛglavātkāruṇakesarānano yathāntramālī dvipahatyayā hari� ||
]
Ibid., VIII. 30.

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