MANGALAGIRI

Going round and round he returned to this calm forest and started performing penance. He continued it for there years, and gods being pleased with it advised continuance of the same for a further period to win the favour of the Highest. But his doting father descended to the spot and persuaded him to refrain from the rigorous tapas; he wanted him to return to the capital for happy life. He plead to be left alone, but to no effect. When father's persistence and adamancy touched the pinnacle, he changed himself into an elephant first and finally became the mountain so that his body would enjoy the grace of God's padasparsa - touch of the feet when Lord Narasimha takes his seat on this hill and that makes him freed from all anxieties. What a devotion! How much intensity!! When would similars spring from this land!!! The Holy hill was recorded in the puranas as the Hastisringi Parvatha. A meaningful and fitting honour to a devotee of that rare type.

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