Hiranyakashipu
Basic account
Asura king who could not be killed by man or beast: until Narasimha.
Account
Hiranyakashipu wins a boon that makes his death nearly impossible, and the god he has forbidden finds the one gap in it. The story exists to demonstrate that a clever condition can always be met.
Motifs
- The gift that undoes
- War against the gods
- The devout enemy
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What is disputed
Whether the boon story is a deliberate literary construction or accumulated from simpler material cannot be determined; the perfection of its symmetry has struck some scholars as too neat to be early.
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Sources
- Bhagavata Purana, Canto 7 (Prahlada and Narasimha)
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