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18) Sankha Raajanya netraabja vishayaaya SrI Venaktesaaya Nama:

Salutations to Srinivasa, who made Himself visible to the lotus-eyed Shankha Raja
 
This Shankha Raja's tale is detailed in the Vamana Purana.
 
This prince of the Hehaya dynasty, like Sri Prahlada, was blessed with Vishnu bhakti since birth and yearned for a glorious glimpse of the Lord in person. After he became the king, Shankha performed numerous yaagaas to worship the Lord, with the specific objective of having His darshan. When he despaired of ever getting to see the Lord, a voice from the sky told him to go to Tirumala Hills and to perform penance for a thousand years on the banks of the Swami Pushkarini. Overjoyed at the prospect of seeing the Lord, even if it meant long and hard penance, Shankha complied with the instructions implicitly. At the end of these ten long centuries of penance, Shankha was rewarded with the magnificent spectacle of the Lord in person and his eyes became big, broad and lotus-like at the glorious sight. He refused to ask for a boon even when prompted by the Lord, cosnsidering the latter's darshan to have been an admirable end in itself. However, Srinivasa told Shankha that the latter would ascend to Svarga loka and spend time there joyously, till the end of this Kalpa.



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