He told him I want you to cover My body with candana. The Lord was still in a very angry mood and that anger created a tremendous heat. But the Lord informed king Pururava that you have not rendered the same quality of service as the ants, the ants made this anthill for Me, to protect Me. Then he performed the grand Abhisheka ceremony. It is said that the Ganga when she saw that Lord Nrsimhadeva is living here, she appeared here just to render service to Him. He got 1000 kalashas or vessels of water from the river called Gangtal. The King Pururava rediscovered this deity of Varaha-Narasimha in this place. Then the Lord again appeared to him in a dream and revealed exactly where He was. So the king was searching everywhere, but he could not find Him. Later on He appeared in a dream to King Pururava, and explained to him that within His form of Varaha-Narasimha, He is on this mountain, and He wanted to find Him. Because king Puruarva was a descendent of great royalty of Vaishnavas, so He approached as a boar and interrupted Pururava’s situation. So what they explained is that the Supreme Lord was really disgusted seeing Pururava running around with Urvashi. Riding with Urvashi, in an aerial chariot over the hills of the South, Pururava was drawn by a mysterious power to Simhachalam.
But at the beginning of another yuga the Deity was rediscovered by Pururava, the king of the lunar dynasty, who is mentioned in the 9th Canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is said that after Prahlada handed over the kingdom to his son, he worshipped the deity personally. However at the end of Satya Yuga, owing to neglect perhaps, a huge anthill gathered around the Deity. Prahlada built a temple around the Deity. In fact he even built a small temple around the deity. Prahlada Maharaja began to worship this deity, which self-manifested before him here, with great, great devotion. He has the face of Lord Varahadeva, and He has a body like Lord Nrsimhadeva, body of a man, and the claws and the tail of a lion. So just to please Prahlada Maharaja, the Lord assumed the form of this deity - Varaha Nrsimha. Lord Krishna reveals Himself according to our consciousness. He prayed to Lord Nrsimhadeva, that I want to worship You, and have darshan of You in that form that You killed my uncle Hiranyaksha, and my father Hiranyakasipu. The local Sthala Purana says that the darshan of Lord’s lotus feet is available only to inhabitants of Patala Loka.Īfter Lord Krishna appeared in His avatar as Nrsimhadeva and killed demoniac Hiranyakasipu, in the later pastimes, Prahlada Maharaja came to this place, Simhachalam, because this is one of the places where the Lord performed the great miracle to protect him. He lifted the mountain and took Prahlada, personally out, with His own hands, and brought Prahlada to safety. It is also said that since the Lord jumped at once to rescue Prahlada, the Lord’s lotus feet went into Patala.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared before Prahlada, at this very place. Chanting the Holy Names of Krishna, Krishna always protects His devotees. Prahlada Maharaja was not afraid of death. Then they took a mountain and covered him to keep him down. Hiranyakasipu and his servants, they took Prahlada, little tiny boy, 5 years old, deep into the sea. Hiranyakasipu’s servants brought Prahlada to this place, which is north of Visakhapatnam, just a few kilometres from here is the sea. The servants chose to do this at Simhachalam.
After many unsuccessful attempts to kill Sri Prahlada, Hiranyakasipu ordered, as a last resort, to hurl Sri Prahlada into the sea and place a huge mountain over him. The Sthala Purana of Simhachalam recounts the history of the great devotee Prahlada Maharaja and his demonic father, Hiranyakasipu. The Deity here, Sri Varaha Laxmi Nrsimha Swamy, is popularly known in Sanskrit as Simhadrinatha or in local Telugu language as Simhadri Appanna (“the Lord of the Lion Hill”). So this is lion’s hill, the hill of Lord Nrsimhadeva.
Simha means “lion” and chalam means “hill”. Sri Varaha Nrsimha Swamy - He has the face of Lord Varahadeva, and He has a body like Lord Nrsimhadeva, body of a man, and the claws & the tail of a lion Posted by ISKCON Derire Tree on Apat 1:00pm