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82) Vrishabhaachala vaasine SrI
Venkatesaaya nama:nama:
Salutations to Sri Venkatesa, who
resides in the Vrishabha hills
Vrishabhaasura lived in the
Tumburu teertham near the Tirumala hills and was an ardent devotee of Sri
Mahavishnu, worshipping Him with the ultimate offer of his own head as flower
to adorn the tiruvadi of the Lord, whom the asura worshipped in a Salagrama
form. Due to the Lord's will, every day the asura used to grow a new head, in
the place of the one offered as tribute.
Though such an unflinching devotee
prepared to offer his own life at the Lord's altar, his natural trait made the
asura torture and otherwise inflict suffering on the sages and Maharshis
inhabiting the area. In response to the prayer of these oppressed rishis, the
Lord appeared before Vrishabaasura., whose only prayer was to wage war with
the Lord. The asura spurned exalted positions, but sought only to fight with
Sri Mahavishnu. Used to granting the wishes of all His devotees, the Lord
agreed to this strange request too and fought with the asura. When he was
about to be killed by the Lord's Sudarsana Chakra, the asura sought the Lord's
indulgence with his lost wish--that the hills where Sri Venkatesa made His
abode should be known as "Vrishabhaadri". It is the result of
the Lord's granting the asura's wish that till date the Vrishabhaadri remains
one of the Lord's most preferred abodes on earth.
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