Narasimha

The man-lion avatāra of Viṣṇu, who bursts from a pillar at twilight to disembowel the daitya king Hiraṇyakaśipu on his own threshold — satisfying every clause of the boon that protected him (neither man nor beast, neither day nor night, neither inside nor outside, no weapon) — and so rescues the devotee Prahlāda.

Domains

• protection

Powers

• Disembowel the boon-proof tyrant on the threshold

Epithets

• नृसिंह
• उग्रनृसिंह
• लक्ष्मीनृसिंह

Relations

• avatar of: Vishnu

Sources

• Bhāgavata Purāṇa 7.8-7.10
• Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.17-20