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63) SimhAchala nivAsaaya SrI VenkatEsaaya nama:
Salutation to Lord VenkatEsa , who lives in the
SimhAchalam hills !
The Tirumala Hills belong to a
long and huge range of mountains, shaped like a serpent, with its head at
Tirumala (called Seshaachalam), its midportion at Ahobilam (called
Garudaachalam) and tail at Srisailam. According to Puranas, this range spans a
distance of 30 Yojanaas.
Of this Ahobilam is known as
Simhaachalam, due to Sri Nrisimhamurthy manifesting Himself there in the form
of a glorious Man-Lion, for protecting Prahlada and to destroy Hiranyakasipu,
which is evident from the following Varaha Purana sloka :
"Hiranyaakhya vinaasaaya
Prahlaada anugrahaaya cha
Naarasimha aakriti: jagye
yasmaat asmaat svayam Hari:
Simhaachaala iti praahu: tasmaat
enam Munisvara:"
Legend has it that Sri Nrisimha
Murthy was present on these hills much before Srinivasa's manifestation and
that the latter, during His wedding with Sri Padmaavati, ordered that all food
should first be offered to Sri Nrisimha, before consumption. Perhaps to attest
to this, Sri Nrisimha still reigns resplendently at a sannidhi in the Tirumala
temple, with Srinivasa facing the former.
UtthamUr Swamy's SlOkam passage on SrI VenkatEsa
KalyANam refers to the two reasons why one of the hills of SrI
Sailam(Thirumala) is named SimhAdhri :
" Aavir-nrusimhamAhuryam simham
simhaadhi-sEvitham "
One of the seven hills is named SimhAdhri because
Lord NarasimhA incarnated here and He is worshipped by the lions that reside
in this hill .
In one version , the seven hills of
VenkatAchalam are counted as: Sesha , Venkata , Vrusha , NaarAyaNa , Anjana ,
Simha and GarudAdhri .
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