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Sonna Vannam seytha Perumal
60) Kinnara dvandhva shaapaanta pradaathrE SrI VenkatEsaaya nama:
 
Salutations to VenkatEsa, who liberated the Kinnara couple from their curse !
 
We have heard of Maharshi Durvaasa, easily irascible and given to dealing out curses at the drop of a hat. A Kinnara (a class of devaas with a predilection for song and dance) couple, enjoying themselves with their usual occupation, disturbed the penance of Durvasa and were cursed to be born as a hunter and his wife on Simhaachalam.  Relenting later over the couple's remorse, the Maharshi told them that they would live for long as a hunting couple on Tirumala hills and obtain relief thereafter with the anugraham of the Sveta Varaha Murthy, who would manifest Himself on the hills.  The tale of this couple has already been narrated--they raised millets in a piece of land and partook of it after offering it to the Lord every day . The Lord, in the form of a White Boar, used to consume some of the millet every day and run away. When the hunter pursued the boar one day, he found it disappearing into an anthill, which was later dissolved in the milk of "Kaaraam pasu", to reveal the Varaha Murthy, in all His splendour. The Lord then relieved the hunter couple of their curse and rewarded their devotion with a berth in His own worlds.This episode is chronicled in the Padma Purana thus--
 
"Kiraata vapushou veekshya Vishnu: kinnara dampatee
 Muni shaapaat mochayitvaa dadou taabhyaam svakam padam"
 
Since the same Lord appears as the Varaaha Murthy and as VenkatEsa, the exploit of the former is attributed to the latter, in this nama.



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