Fw: ghanda berunda

[Guest guest]

Dear bhAgavathas,

 

Some of you may recall a brief discussion from a few months ago

regarding Sri Ghandaberunda, a mystical form of Sri

LakshmiNarasimhan whose sannidhi is located in the

panchanarasimha kshEtram of Yadagirigutta in Andhra Pradesh.

 

There was a question inquiring into the details of this unique

rUpam of the Lord. I sent this question to HH Sri Tridandi Jeear

Swamy, and am forwarding his response - along with the original

question - to all of you.

 

Ramanuja Dasan

Mohan Raghavan

 

-

acharya27 <acharya27

 

Monday, October 23, 2000 8:57 AM

RE: Re: ghanda berunda

 

> Priya Sriman Mohan Sagarji & other devotees!

> Jai srimannarayana!

> After a long time we are attempting to answer this question

about the Ganda

> Bherunda Na:rasimha Incornation.

> Here is some information. Infact, such a Mu:rthi is being

worshiped at Sri

> Ya:dagiri Kshe;tram, near Hyderabad. But they are not able to

say anything

> about the origin and historic evidance of that Mu:rthy. It is

one among 5

> mu:rthies being worshipped there.

> According to Srimad Bha:gavatham, Lord took Nrusimha Ru:pam and

killed

> Hiranya Kasipu, that is all. But in some pura:na:s it is

described that

> Lord took several incornations during that time and at last He

killed

> Hiranya Kasipu. In Simhachala Kshe:tra Maha:tmyam they were

described as 32.

> No names are necessary now.

> In a scripture by name "NRU KANTTI:RAVA ABHYUDAYAM" there is a

story

> mentioned about Gandha Bherunda Narasimha.

> It is like this:==

> Once Sage Vasishta was explaining this story to The King

Dili:pa, the

> ancesters of RA:machendra:

> Hiranyakasipu asked Prahla:da, his son, to show God in a pillar

and blew

> that with his left hand. Nrusimha appeared from that pillar.

It seems, Lord

> took 9 forms ( May be they are NavaNa:rasimhas) . When Lord

started cutting

> his body, there started appearing several Hiranyakasipus, from

wherever the

> blood had dropped. But Nrusimha killed all of them with a

terribly furious

> form. Lord also killed all the bettalians of Hiranyakasipu.

Even after the

> whole fighting was finished Lord could not control his anger

and even

> Goddess Lakshmi was not able to approach Him. Then all of them

have

> approached Lord siva and requested him to help them in this

context. Then

> Lord Siva appeared in the form of Sarabhasalva ( an animal,

supposedly more

> powerful than a lion)to fear the Lord. Then it seems that there

was fight

> between both. Then Lord took the form of Ganda Bhe:runda and

fought with

> that Sarabha. When Prahla:da interfered, both became cool.

Then The lord

> went up to Garuda:dri and stayed on a Ka:nuga Tree along with

Goddess

> Lakshmi. He, the Lord invited Maya the mystic engineer of

De:vas and

> instructed him to construct a town there and that became

"Aho:bilam" at a

> later period. This is from that scripture. There is no other

details

> available about this.

> Jai Srimannarayana!

> =chinnajeeyar=

>

>

>

> Mohan Sagar [msagar]

> Sunday, July 09, 2000 7:32 PM

> Bhakti List; vaishnava79;

> Cc: Venkatesh Elayavalli

> Re: ghanda berunda

>

> aum vishnave namah

> i am reading about yadagiri kshetra. where i came to read

> the avatara

> of ghandaberunda. i have never heard of any such form. can you

> please

> explain where and when the avatara appears. also kindly please

> explain how

> this great avatara looks like.

> thanking you,

[Guest guest]

Dear Bhagawathas,

I wanted to share the following points (may be baseless) with you

in the context of Sri ghanda berunda nr~simhar charithram as quoted

here from HH Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar's mail.

1. In the Thirubhuvanam (Thanjavur Dt., TamilNadu) temple of

Lord Siva, there is a sannidhi for SarabhESwarar. Lion face and

trunk, 8 legs, (each pair being a unique animal's legs), with a pair

of wings. It is said that in this form Lord Siva calmed down Lord

Nr~simhar by extracting the poisonous Hiranyan's blood from His

SarIram which He had consumed in His unprecedented fearsome anger.

2. In this connection, the nAmA "Sarabha:" in

"athula SarabhO bhIma samaya~jnO havir hari:"

 

connotes as per "Sri Chinmayananda's commentary" (this is from my

memory) that Lord Siva took the form of this 8-legged fearsome

creature to destroy aSuras and hence Lord VishNu and Lord Siva are

same (may be meaning antaryAmi). I request Sri Krishnamachari to

comment on this from his repertoire of meanings for this nAmA.

3. People familiar with Sri Rangam temple's interiors please correct

me. I visited the Great Temple of Sri Rangam about 6 months back.

Somewhere near the sannidhi of Sri Danvanthiri (may be wrong), there

is an elevated pedestal and next to it was a wall painting. This wall

painting resembled the above-said 8-legged fearsome animal with an

aSura under its powerful feet.

 

I request Bhagawathas to comment on the above points.

 

adiyEn,

chandrasekaran.

> Part of HH Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar's mail :

> Hiranyakasipu asked Prahla:da, his son, to show God in a

> pillar and blew that with his left hand. Nrusimha appeared

> from that pillar. It seems, Lord took 9 forms ( May be they

> are NavaNa:rasimhas) . When Lord started cutting his body, there

> started appearing several Hiranyakasipus, from wherever the blood

> had dropped. But Nrusimha killed all of them with a teribly

> furious form. Lord also killed all the bettalians of Hiranyakasipu.

> Even after the whole fighting was finished Lord could not control

> his anger and even Goddess Lakshmi was not able to approach Him.

> Then all of them have approached Lord siva and requested him to

> help them in this context. Then Lord Siva appeared in the form of

> Sarabhasalva ( an animal, supposedly more powerful than a lion)to

> fear the Lord. Then it seems that there was fight between both.

> Then Lord took the form of Ganda Bhe:runda and fought with that

> Sarabha. When Prahla:da interfered both became cool.