Hiranyakashipu gained a boon from Brahma due to which he could not be killed during the day or night, inside or outside the house, any place in the world i.e. The demon is the powerful brother of the evil Hiranyaksha, who had been previously defeated by Vishnu, and thus hated the latter. Narasimha iconography shows him with a human torso and lower body, with a leonine face and claws, typically with the demon Hiranyakashipu in his lap, whom he is in the process of defeating. Narasimha is also described as the God of Yoga, in the form of Yoga-Narasimha. ![]() ![]() There exists a matha (monastery) dedicated to him by the name of Parakala Matha in the Sri Vaishnava tradition. ![]() Hence, he is known as Kala (time) or Mahakala (great-time), or Parakala (beyond time) in his epithets. Narasimha is often depicted with three eyes, and is described in Vaishnavism to be the God of Destruction, he who destroys the entire universe at the time of the great dissolution ( Mahapralaya). He incarnates in the form of a part-lion, part-man being to slay Hiranyakashipu, and end religious persecution and calamity on earth, thereby restoring dharma. Narasimha, ( Sanskrit: नरसिंह, lit.'man-lion', IAST: Narasiṃha) sometimes rendered Narasingha, is the fourth avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
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