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sarabeshvarar
purANa of the deity
hiraNya was a daemon who conquered celestials and ruled the worlds in
turbulance. His son prahaladha was on contradiction good charactered and devotee
of mahAviShNu. This irked the daemon father. He threatened the son to show viShNu from a
column of the palace. mahAviShNu promptly appeared wrathfully as a narasimha (half human,
half lion form) and cut open the daemon's stomach and drank his blood killing him. Now
narasimha who came to kill the daemon was so wrath filled that his anger was disturbing
the others. lakshmi, the consort of viShNu herself was afraid to approach him.
The divines pleaded to Lord shiva to control the anger of narasimha and make him a pleasent
one.
Lord shiva took the form of sharaba, a form that combines lion, human and
also a bird. With this Fierce form Lord shiva engaged narasimha to fight. Very soon narasimha
realized that the sharaba was nothing but Lord shiva. He saluted the shrabha and shed away
his wrath and became pleasent to be worshipped by lakshmi and prahaladha.
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