The asura king was the powerful brother of the evil Hiranyaksha, who had been previously killed by Vishnu as Varaha, and thus hated the latter. Narasimha iconography shows him with a human torso and lower body, with a leonine face and claws, typically with the asura Hiranyakashipu being disemboweled and killed by him in his lap. Narasimha is also described as the God of Yoga, in the form of Yoga-Narasimha. There exists a matha (monastery) dedicated to him by the name of Parakala Matha at Mysuru in the Sri Vaishnava tradition. Hence, he is known as Kala (time) or Mahakala (great-time), or Parakala (beyond time) in his epithets. Narasimha is often depicted with three eyes, and is described in Vaishnavism to be the God of Destruction he who destroys the entire universe at the time of the great dissolution ( Mahapralaya). He is believed to have incarnated in the form of a part-lion, part-man being to kill Hiranyakashipu, to end religious persecution and calamity on earth, thereby restoring dharma. Narasimha ( Sanskrit: नरसिंह, lit.'man-lion', IAST: Narasiṃha), sometimes rendered Narasingha, is the fourth avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
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