From shankara digvijaya

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Although the following narration in the shankara digvijaya is abour

nR^isiMha, I am posting this here as it applies to all devata-s.

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padmapAda was asked how the devata Nrisimha was so gracious to him.

padmapAda replies:

" In my early days I performed austerities for a very long time in

order to propitiate Nrisimha. A hunter who used to pass by asks him

" Oh yogin why are you staying alone in this mountain cave. padmapAda

says that he is in quest of that wonderful being who has a human body

up to the neck and a Lion's face above and that he abides in this

forest but I have not been able to meet him. The hunter then went into

the forest and not long after he returned with Nrisimha tied with

creepers.

Padmapada asks teh divine being as to how could this hunter get to him

so quickly when it is hard even for the rishis-s. Nrisimha explains

that " Even Rishi-s are not able to concentrate so whole-heartedly on

me like this hunter " So saying he disappeared blessing Padmapada.

----- From Swami Tapasyananda's translation.

 

It is said that with Nrisimha's grace padmapada saved the Acharya from

some dangers. Acharya himself is usually thought of as a great

upAsaka of Nrisimha.

 

According to some mantra shastra manual-s -ksh- denotes both Nrisimha

and Bhairava/Kshetrapala. So we can count this as one more thing

common to Nrisimha and Shiva. The complete Nrisimha bIja when repeated

constantly does indeed sound like a Lion's roar. This is just

imagination though.

Nrisimha is AntramAlI while Bhairava is described as

AntrayaGYopavItavAn.h.

Also notice that Nrisimha and Shiva both have stories of conferring

their grace upon a tribal/hunter.

All this is in addition to the already discussed common features of

their iconography.

[Guest guest]

 

I want just add little information. Sri Sankara has visited Ahobilam the birth

place of nrisimha and installed a lingam in the cave shrine of Ugra nrisimha and

a Sudarshana chakra also goes to show his devotion ti nrisimha.

 

S.Muruganandam

 

On Sun, 11 May 2008 Satish wrote :

>Although the following narration in the shankara digvijaya is abour

>nR^isiMha, I am posting this here as it applies to all devata-s.

>---

>padmapAda was asked how the devata Nrisimha was so gracious to him.

>

 

S.MURUGANANDAM

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