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The Brahma-purana (A.58) describes at length the worship of lord Nrsimha in the Utkala Pradesh. It states that it is very difficult to describe all the qualities of lord Nrsimha. One who wants to worship lord Nrsimha should take either milk or vegetables, barley, fruits, roots, pinyaka and saktuka. He should wear Kaupina and should worship lord Nrsimha either in forest, or in desolate places or on mountain or near the confluence of rivers or in a Siddhaksetra or in a desert or in the temple of lord Nrsimha or he himself might establish the image of lord Nrsimha and worship him. First one should circumambulate lord Nrsimha and should offer him fragrant objects, like camphor, candana, dhupa and flowers (58.13). By doing so one gets success and his lustre becomes unbearable. Then one should utter the Nrsimha-kavaca, which if recited once, protects one from all the troubles, if recited twice, protects from gods, demons, gandharvas, kinnaras, yaksas, vidyadharas, uragas, 16 Sarvavyapi Jagannathah Sankhacakragadadharah, anadinidhano devah Priyatam Purusottamah 11 67.48.

676 Bhutas, Pisacas and Raksasas; if recited thrice, it protects from gods as well as demons. Lord Nrsimha should be worshipped by enlightening fire with Palasa wood. After enjoying in the Patala by the grace of lord Nrsimha, one may come back with the deer-skin, Gutika, Kamandalu, aksasubha, a stick and Siddhavidya (58.24-47). By worshipping lord Nrsimha one gets freedom from diseases like leucoderma, epilepsy, ganda and pinda. If the Nrsimha kavaca is tied to the neck of the child, he is always protected on being afflicted with diseases, if one offers samidh, ghee and milk in honour of lord Nrsimha thrice a day for one month, he gets freedom from all the diseases (58.48,49). One should prepare an idol of lord Nrsimha from the clay collected from seven Valmikas, cemetery and the place where the four roads meet. That clay should be mixed with red candana and milk of the cow and from it the idol of lord Nrsimha should be prepared. It should be six inches high. Then one should matter the 108 names and thereby one gets all the powers (58.50-55). One who injures the idol of Lord Nrsimha perishes together with his family (58.57). One who matters the name of lord Nrsimha for twenty lakh times on the twelfth day of the bright half be lf becomes free from all the grave sins

677 and lesser sins and gets liberation (58.22,23). One who remembers lord Nrsimha at the time of battle, or when one is afflicted by the troubles of thieves, animals, poison, fire, water, fear from the king, ocean, diseases or constellations, gets freedom from all these troubles (58. 65,67). The Brahmins, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras, women and antyajas get freedom from sins and troubles by worshipping lord Nrsimha (58.59,60). One gets all the desired objects, gets the merit of performing ten asvamedhas, saves 21 ancestors, and goes to Visnuloka. After enjoying there with gandharvas and apsarasas, he comes back to the world on completion of his merits, gets a birth as a brahmin wellversed in the four vedas, learns the Vaisnava Yoga and gets liberation (58.69-77).