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48) NaarAyaNa nagEsaaya Sri
VenkatEsaaya nama:
Salutations to Lord VenkatEsa , who has taken the form of a hill revered as
NaarAyaNaadhri !
When Agastya and other Rishis were
searching for the Lord ( as narrated elsewhere),they came across a radiant
mahaa purusha seated on a rock, whose brilliance and beauty were beyond
description. When Agastya performed obeisance to this maha purusha and sought
his identity, the distinguished entity just disappeared without a word. Sri
Vamadeva tells Janaka that this purusha is none other than the Narayana
Parvatam, which had assumed the splendorous manly form.
Since Agastya
describes this wonderful form as akin to that
of the Lord's, another interpretation puts this mahapurusha as
none other than Srinivasa HImself, adopting the etymological formula, "naarayaNa
iti nagesa: tasmai nama:".
Apart from this, the story of one
brahmin described below by name Narayana and his links for one of
the Tirumala hills acquiring the sobriquet "Narayanaadri" is
elaborated by the tirunaama, "Narayana artthita asesha jana drik
vishayaaya nama:"
According to this view , the salutations are to
Lord SrI VenkatesA , who resides in NaarAyaNAdhri (One of the seven hills of
Thirumala) in response to the prayer of NaarayaNa Muni ! The name "
NaarAyaNa nagEsan " originated this way:
A brahmin by the name of NaarAyaNa performed
severe penance (tapas) to have the darsanam of Lord VenkatEsa in one of
the seven hills of Thirumala .In addition to appearing before NaarayaNa ,
Lord VenlkatEsa granted also his other wish for that
hill to be known thereafter as NaarAyaNAdhri.
UtthamUr Swamy's slOkam referring to the
tapas of NaarAyaNa Muni to result in the place of his tapas being named
NaarAyaNAdhri is:
yO hi dharamas-tapas-tEpE taTA NaarAyaNO dhvija:
AnjanEyOajanishtEthi VirushO NaarAyaNOanjana:
(Meaning): Three of the seven hills of Thirumala
are revered
as VrushAdhri , NaarAyaNAdhri and AnjanAdhri and
are
named thus because Vrusha (Dharma Devathai) and
NaarAyaNan
performed tapas here. To celebrate AnjanEyar's
avathAram,
one peak is named AnjanAdhri.
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