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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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