BY
PRAGYANSHARAMA POLAVARAPU(VRS.SOMANCHI)
A great demon king
Hiranyakashipu who denied existence of God almighty tried also to prevent his
little son from praying to God almighty. But the devout little boy –who loved
God as embodiment of kindness, goodness and love —refused to follow
his father. The wicked king ordered that the little boy, his own son, be killed
but Lord Vishnu, the god almighty, remaining invisible protected the boy at
every step. The king angrily challenged his son to show the god almighty
in a nearby huge pillar and struck it with his huge golden mace.
Now Lord Vishnu became extremely
angry and could not control his anger any longer. He ,in a very angry
half lion-half human form ,famous as Lord Narasimha ( god with a fierce half-human
half-lion form)wearing a golden crown and decked in dazzling jewels, burst out
of the pillar amidst blinding lightning and deafening thunder. Even the gods
gathered there were frightened. The lion god ,using sharp claws of his
lion body, cut open the stomach of the king and started drinking the
blood in a fit of wild anger and killed the demon king. Lord Vishnu
cooled down only after the little devout son of the wicked king bravely prayed
and appealed to the angry god .The god immediately changed to the
sweet form of a handsome warrior-prince (Lord Vishnu), crowned the
little boy as king and disappeared into the skies.
There are a large number of temples
for the lion god Lord Narasimha in India, particularly in the southern states.
There are large number of temples for Lord Narasimha in both Telangana and
Andhra states. A grand temple for Lord Narasimha is built recently at
Yadagirigutta in Nalgonda district of Telangana by remodeling the old existing
temple where the god was worshipped for hundreds or even thousands of years.
The old temple on the hill was remodeled after checking the great sculptural
marvels at many famed south Indian temple like Madurai, Tanjavur, Srirangam and
Tirupathi. Yadagirigutta now renamed as Yadadri is hardly 70 kilometers from
the fast modernizing megacity of Hyderabad (modernizing to global standards) .
Hyderabad city is becoming famous world over as a center for IT, drug and
vaccine manufacturing technology and also as a great educational hub and also
famous as a place where several defense-oriented industries are located. People
of Hyderabad would feel fortunate to have such a famed temple as Yadadri so
near to the city.
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