Indian Culture

Do you know, what links one of the most powerful gods in Hindu pantheon, Ahobilam in Andhra, Multan in Pakistan, State emblem of Karnataka and The Holi festival celebrated in India - Lord Narasimha!! Narasimha is one of the most powerful avatars of Lord Vishnu, is known to be fierce to fight and remove all that is evil and as a result protect all his devotees from every negative aspect of life. He is regarded as the embodiment of victory of good over evil. Lord Narasimha is said to have half human and half lion appearance where the torso and the lower body is that of human while the face and claws are that of a ferocious lion. He took this form to protect is devotee Prahalad from death by his own father, the evil king Hiranyakasipu. Before Krishna, before Rama, before Vamana, the Narasimha Avatar of Vishnu came to earth to rescue a single devotee who chanted his name. Hiranyakasipu was very powerful due to a boon from Brahma. He asked for immortality wich Brahma refused. So he asked f