Lord Narasimhadevas pastimes from Narasimha Purana

[Paramananda das]

As part of my work on the book about Lord Narasimha I am working on ,I am presenting this chapter summary of the Narasimha Purana that deals with the pastimes of Lord Narasimha and Prahlada Maharaja

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Hirnayakasipu takes over the heavenly planets and kicks out the demigods.After wandering the earth for long time(disguised as ordinary human beings) the demigods talk with Brhaspati that confirms that he and other sages are predicting that soon Hiranyakasipu will be finished, and tells them to go to the ocean of milk , and headed by Lord Siva they go there and and chant many names of Visnu to Lord Visnu and being pleased He asks what they desire.And they answer that He being all knowing also knows this answer, so why is He asking them /Lord Visnu smiling answers that He is pleased they chanted 100 of His Holy names , and tells them not to worry , and tells Lord Siva that he can go back to Kailash and that soon Sri Prahlada Maharaja will appear, and when Hiranyaksipu later tries to kill him, He, Lord Visnu will appear and kill Hiranyakasipu.

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Lord Brahma tells Narada Muni that Hiranyakasipu is doing Tapasya at Kailash and ask him what he suggest to do, Narada Muni tells him not to worrry as Lord Visnu has shown him a "few tricks", he goes there then
Narada Muni assumes the form of a bird starts to chant the name of Lord Visnu and it aggrevates Hiranyakasipu so much that he tried to kill that bird and simply gives up his penance there.
(It reminds us of the classical Indian movie made about Prahlada and Narasimha where you see the same, Hiranyakasipu chanting Om Rudray namah and the bird Om Visnave namah, however in the Narasimha Purana it is "Om Narayanaya Namah" ,the movie version has Brhaspati taking the form of a bird)
Coming back to his wife she is very happy and she asks him why he has finished his tapasya so early: She
did not expect him for the next 1000 celestial years, Hiranyakasipu explains the birds was chanting:Om namo Narayanaya namah " and disturbing his meditation and as he states this he impregnates his wife [thus Kayadhu becomes pregnant with Prahlada.)and then an interesting statement is there: Just as devotion to Lord Hari increases more and more even in the harsh Kali yuga the devotion of Prahlada as he grew up increased daily.
Then it is explained that Prahlada one days meets his demoniac father and Prahlada starts glorifying the name of Krsna, and Hiranyakasipu temporarily controls his angers and tells him that chanting Krsna's name is not allowed all over the universe under his rule. And Prahlada tells him this is a great sin and he should immediately start chanting, this infuriates Hiranyakasipu and he tells Prahlada to leave his palace at once and calls for the teacher being brought to him in chains. He chastises the teacher who is a Vishnu bhakta and instructs the teacher to worship him instead.Hiranyakasipu chastises Prahlada for not being obedient to he who is both his father and ruler of the univers and gloryfying "the enemy of the asuras Visnu".The teacher leaves and it stated from then on he starts worship of Hiranyakasipu simply to fill his belly

chapter 42
In this chapter Prahlada Maharaja goes to his teacher, after he comes back Hiranyakasipu questions him, and Prahlada glorified Lord Visnu and states no other subject is worthy of discussion, this infuriated Hiranyakasipu once more that then orders to have Prahlada killed and the soldiers rush at him with weapons that simply turn around and harm them, then Hiranyakasipu calls for snake charmers that bring the most powerful snakes in the universe to attack Prahlada,who again is fully absorbed in Lord Visnu and the fangs of the snakes are broken and they are all bleeding, and not even the skin of Prahlada is harmed.
The snake charmers explain to Hiranayakasipu these snakes normally could even melt stones with their fire of poison (such snakes are thousand times more poisonous that snakes we know, as their poison causes the victim to be burned to ashes) . Sanda and Amarka asks Hiranyakasipu to allow them to bring Prahlada to their ashram to teach him in the demoniac principals, and Hiranyakasipu agrees

[Paramananda das]

I mentioned this:(It reminds us of the classical Indian movie made about Prahlada and Narasimha where you see the same, Hiranyakasipu chanting Om Rudray namah and the bird Om Visnave namah, however in the Narasimha Purana it is "Om Narayanaya Namah" ,the movie version has Brhaspati taking the form of a bird) so that no one take these movies as good as sastra