AHOBALAM

The four faces of Lord Vishnu mentioned in the Vishnu Dharmottara passages are taken to stand for the above four Vyuhas. Thus the Narasimha type of manifestation is an important vyuha of the Lord.

It is stated in the Nrisimha Purvathapani Upanishad that God appeared before Brahma as Narasimha first, and gave him the mantra viz., the Narasimha Anushtrup, with which he was able to develop the four Vedas later..

The Anushtrup is as follows:

In the above Anushtrup, there are nine forms of Narasimhaswamy, which corres- pond to   the Nava Narasimhas.

Those are the Ugra or the angry, the Veera or the fighting, the  Mahavishnu or the Lakshmi Narasimha,the Jwalantha of the figure emitting flames, the  Sarvathomukha or the Narasimha with a  number of faces, the Narasimha or the  ordinary Narasimha, the Bhishana or the  frightful, the Bhadra of the terrible and the  Mrithyormrithyu or the killer of death.

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