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58) Jaanu-dhagna samudhbhUtha pOthriNE SrI VenkatEsAya Nama:

Salutations to Srinivasa, who, as a Giant Boar, manifested from the anthill, upto His knees !
 
We saw earlier the episode of the Great White Boar, the Sveta Varaaha, which used to consume the millets from the fields of the hunter Vasu. Perplexed at the phenomenon, the hunter pursued the Boar one night, but saw it disappear into an anthill. When he dug into the anthill, the Lord manifested Himself in the form of a beautiful white Boar, radiant and glorious beyond description. The Varaham told the hunter to advise Emperor Tondamaan to build a temple for Himself (Varaha). The hunter complied and accompanied the Emperor to the site  of the anthill, which they proceeded to dissove with gallons of milk from black cows. The magnificent form of the Varaha murthy began to emerge slowly from the anthill, as the muddy enclosure was washed away by milk. When the Lord's form was visible upto the knees, the flow of milk ran out, due to the inattention of the Emperor's men. And the Lord's emerging form stopped with the knees and would not develop further onto the feet, irrespective of any amount of milk being poured.
 
The Lord appeared and told the Emperor not to worry and that the image was complete as it was (upto the knees). Tondaman, moved by the sight of the glorious Lord, built a sannidhi for Him on the northern banks of the Swami Pushkarini, with Gopuram, Vimanam, etc., where He is worshipped till date by us.
 
This is the tale of the Lord who was visible only upto His knees,as recounted in the Padma Purana, which is also to be found with minor variations in the Varaha Purana too.
 
Legend has it that the same Lord resides, as Varaha Murthy on the western side and as Srinivasa on the southern banks of the Swami Pushkarini, making HImself visible even to our mundane eyes and fulfilling all our desires, as the Kali Yuga Varada.
 
This Naama Salutes Lord VenkatEsa , who took the avathAram of a gigantic boar to lift BhUmi Piratti from the boundless
waters of deluge with His hundred arms extending down to His  knees.
 
During the VarAha avathAram , Lord VenkatEsa incarnated as Aadhi VarAhan , killed the asuran named HiraNyAkshan , who
had stolen BhUmi devi and hid Her inside the oceans . VarAha BhagavAn entered the immense pralaya waters , found and
destroyed the asuran and rescued His divine consort with His hundred arms stretching all the way down to His knees.
Taittiriya AraNyaka ( 10.1.8) states in this context that Earth was raised by a black boar with hundred arms .  



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