South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c8.s3.9

Language: English

c8.s3.9

Narasimha or Nrisimha, the Man-lion is more popular than Varāha. A large number of families in the south, Brahman and non-Brahman, own him as their tutelary deity. In Tamil, the name is corrupted into Singa (Sanskrit Simha) or Singa-Perumāl, and in the other vernaculars into Narasa (a contraction of Narasimha). The story of this incarnation of Vishnu is briefly as follows:—

Previous: c8.s3.8
Next: c8.s3.10
Up: c8.s3