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85) Priyangu priya bhakshyaaya nama:
 
Salutations to Srinivasa, who is partial to millet and grains offered by His devotees
 
There was once a hunter in the Tirumala hills, who cultivated some millet (Thinai in tamizh) too. Every day, a white boar would appear on the field to consume some of the millet. Since this left enough for himself and his family, the hunter didn't mind the boar's daily raid and used to harvest the rest, mix it with honey, offer it to Srinivasa and partake of it thereafter. One day, when he had gone to the forest to obtain honey, he found his son eating some of the millet. Angered at his son's conduct of consuming food which had not yet been offered to the Lord, the hunter raised his knife with harmful intent. Before the knife could meet its mark, there was a voice from the sky telling the hunter that since some of the millet had already been consumed by the white boar (which was none other than the Lord), the child was only eating Bhagavat prasaadam and hence should not be harmed.When the hunter reported the strange event to the Emperor, the latter followed the former to his field and, finding the giant boar engaged in its favourite occupation of eating the hunter's millets, followed the unique animal, which disappeared into an ant hill. When the Emperor dissolved the anthill by pouring pots of milk on the same, he uncovered a glorious vimaanam and in it, the magnificent, four-armed form of Srinivasa, as He reigns resplendently even today.



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