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Lakshmi Naarayanan
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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