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80) Vrishabhasura haariNe SrI Venkatesaaya nama:
 
Salutations to Lord Venkatesa , who killed Vrushabhaasura and thereafter elevated him to a meritorous world ! 
 
The Brahmanda Purana tells us that Vrishabhasura was a Siva bhakta, who lived south of Tirumala and adhered faithfully to his avocation of harrassing and tormenting saadhus. To his surprise, he found a huge hill suddenly materialising there. Attributing this to the work of some Maayaavi, Vrishabha searched the hill for the sorceror and found the Lord, in the garb of a hunter. Sure of his own capability to dispose of the intruder easily, Vrishabha commenced battle with the hunter, but found to his dismay that the latter was no ordinary nomad, but extremely well-versed in the art of war, so much so as to destroy Vrishabha's large army just like swatting flies. At the end of a long-drawn struggle in which the asura used every trick in his vast repertoire, all in vain, he realised that his opponent was no ordinary mortal, but verily the Lord Himself. Seeing all his army wiped out in a trice by the flames of the Sudarsana Chakra and coming to terms with his own impending end, the asura sought refuge in the Lord and sought forgiving for all his sins and purification through a death through the Chakrayudha. The Lord obliged the asura by instructing Sudarsanaazhwan suitably and the asura ascended to the good worlds above.
 
Another version found in the Bhavishyottara Purana referring to another asura of the same name who recieved the anugraham of
Lord Venkatesa : On the banks of the Tumburu Teerttham in Tirumala, one Vrishabhasura was performing an extremely strange and bloody pooja to the Salagrama Shila of Sri Nrisimha Murthy, for five thousand long years--he used to offer his own severed head to the Lord, as token of his staunch bhakti and willingness to make the supreme sacrifice for the Lord's sake. Due to his devotion, he used to be blessed with a new head, everytime he cut off one for offer to the Lord.  Pleased with this strange but ardent offering, Srinivasa appeared before the asura and inquired as to his desire. The asura, as strange in the boon he sought as was his mode of worship, sought to fight with the Lord and was duly killed after a gory battle, through the Chakrayudha of the Lord, attaining meritorious worlds.



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