The
special form was adopted by Lord Vishnu to kill a demoniac ruler
Hiranyakashyap, who had pleased Lord Brahma with his religious offerings. Lord
Brahma had given him the blessings that no known man or animal born in the
natural process could kill him, that he could not die in the day or in the
night, on earth or in heavens, either by fire, water or by any weapon. It was
to kill such a tyrant and to remove him from the earth that Lord Vishnu assumed
the form of Narasingh which was neither man nor animal, came out of a broken
pillar, laid hold of the demon king by its teeth, put him up on his thighs and
tore him up in the middle by his claws. It was evening time – neither day nor
night.
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