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120 Avotar (Incarnation)

3) Baraha Avotar:

Once the earth was sinking down the sea. Then Shrihari appeared as

Baraha or pig and saved the earth. He with his huge teeth held the

earth above the water. The earth was saved.

Besides this, Shrihari in the figure of a Baraha did another great

thing. Hiranyaksha, the king of the demons was an oppressor. He

established peace on the earth by killing Hiranyaksha.

Baraha Avotar

4) Nrisingha Avotar:

Hiranyakshipu was the brother of Hiranyaksha, the king of the

demons. Hiranyakshipu became very angry to hear that Shrihari had

killed Hirohyaksha. He looked for an opportunity to take revenge.

Gradually he became very much malicious to Ishwara. But the

strange thing was that, his only son Prahlad was devoted to Vishnu.

Hirannyakshipu asked his son to leave the company of Vishnu. But