Hare Krishna!
Sri Lakshmi Narasimha is the 4th incarnation of Maha Vishnu in Dasavathars. Srimannarayan took Sri Narasimha swamy incarnation to save his devotee Prahlad.
There are many temples for Sri Narasimha swamy. Today let’s know one of the temple of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha.
Tarigonda Lakshmi Narasimha swamy Temple:
Tarigonda is a village in Chithoor District of Andhra Pradesh. It is the birth place of Yogini and Sadhvi, Matrusree Tarigonda Vengamamba.
History of the Temple:
Before, there lived a village head of Tarigonda named Ramanayinam and his wife is Narasamamba.
Once Narasamamba was churning curd. She saw a stone (salagram) in the vessel in which she was churning. She shown it to her husband. He took it to the Priests and they said that it is the salagram of Sri Nrusimha swamy. They felt very happy for that.
That day night, Lord appeared in the dream of Ramanayinam and said “Build a temple of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha swamy here. And keep the salagram in the Garbhalay with Lakshmi Narasimha mulamurthi”. Narasimha swamy also said a place and ordered to dig there by which they’ll get 2 pots with money, gold,etc., Lord said to build temple with that money. And disappeared.
He felt very happy and said this to priests and went to the place said by Nrusimha swamy. After doing Lakshmi pooja, they started dig. As said by Lord, they found 2 pots and with that money, temple of Lakshmi Narasimha was constructed.
Sri Prasanna Veeranjaneya, Chenchu Lakshmi Adi Lakshmi upalayas are also there. Matrusree Tarigonda Vengamamba statue is also installed there.
Sri Prasanna Anjaneya swamy, Matrusree Tarigonda Vengamamba, Sri Chenchu Lakshmi Devi:
All the sevas and utsavams are done according to Pancharathra agamam.
Suprabhatha seva is done to Narasimha swamy at 6:00 AM.
Every month, on Swathi Nakshatram, kalyanam of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha is done.
On every Friday and Saturday abhishekam is done to the Mulamurthy.
Interesting story about this temple:
As the part of Nrusimha Jayanthi, in many temples, Sri Nrusimha avathar play will be presented. But, here it is not. Because, once in the play, suddenly by the influence of Narasimha swamy, the person who played Lord’s role chased the one who played Hiranyakship’s role to kill. So, from that time, playing Prahlad Charithra in Nrisimha jayanthi was stopped.
Now this temple runs under TTD (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams).
Before, Sage Durvasa worshiped Narasimha swamy in Tarigonda.
And also Kasi Visweswara swamy temple is there in Tarigonda.
Sri Tarigonda Lakshmi Narasimha deva pahimam!!
Om Namo Venkatesaya!!!
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