Theiupreme Permnality or Codchcad,exhilting the vndetl fananme fotoof load Nṛsiṁhadeva, emerged from the pillar. The Lord's form was half man and halflion. His angry
eyes resembled molten gold, His teeth were deadly, His nostrils and gaping mouth appeared like caves of a mountain, His jaws were parted fearfully, and His body touched the sky. His neck was very short and thick, His chest broad, and His waist thin, and the hairs on His body were as white as moonrays. His arms, spread in all directions, carried His conchshell, disc, club, lotus, and other weapons.
The demon Hiraṇyakaśipu attacked Nṛsiṁhadeva with great force, but the Lord captured him, as asnake might capture a mouse or Garuḍa a snake. Then, as Hiraṇyakaśipu flailed his limbs in all directions, very much afflicted at being captured, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva placed him on his lap, supporting him with His thighs, and in the doorway of the assembly hall the Lord very easily tore the demon to pieces with the nails of His hands.
Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva's mouth and mane were sprinkled with drops of blood, and His fierce eyes, full of anger, were impossible to look at. Licking the edge of His mouth with His tongue, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, decorated with a garland of intestines ripped from Hiraṇyakaśipu's abdomen, resembled a lion that has just killed an elephant.
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