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Dictionary Of Hindu Religion | Avataar
| Avataar | |
| 15-Narasinh-2 |
15-Narasinh Avataar-2 This story comes in Bhaagvat Puraan, 7/2. http://www.globalhinduism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lakshmi\nrisimha.jpg 5th Avataar in 10 Main Avataar and 15th Avataar in 24 Avataar
32000 year old Idol of Narasinh (Lord Vishnu's Avataar) found in Germany
[Lord Narasinh] This discovery brought a lot of attention in the archaeological circles in Europe. In Excavations around 1930-35 at the Lonetal area near Ulm, a German scientist already found an immense cave system with lots of prehistoric artifacts in it. First, only representations of birds, horses, turtles and even single lions where found but not a morphological combination of men and animal. Naturally the "lion man" was quite outstanding and unique. It became also clear during the later examinations that the lion-men was used for ritual purposes, unlike the other items which seemed to have accompanied the dead and so on. The Idol was found exactly at the place in the cave where day and night meet, about 20 meters away from the entrance and buried 1.20 meter deep under the ground. Many parts of the figure were broken and where found a little away in this area. Therefore it took some time to finish the work of completing and reconstructing the figure and to see it as a whole. [See Idol of Lord Narasinh http://www.globalhinduism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lion_man_small.jpg Idol of Lord Narasinh
Many ancient, highly developed cultures had some kind of idols or pictures
of lions with a human face or torso. A purely ritualistic Relic, like for
example the Sphinx of Gizeh or the Egyptian goddess of war Sekhmetm, with
a lion head, or Mitra, the Sun god of Persia, with a lion face, the Assyrian
Gate Guardians of Babylon or the Etruscan lion with wings at the entrance of
the Temple mountain at Troy are well known examples for this. And now this
amazing discovery in Lonetal in a deep cave which is directed to North-east
towards the little river Lone. Extraordinary thing is the exact position of
the found of the lion-man idol. It immediately reminded me of the ancient story
from the Puraan, known to all devotees of Vishnu, where Hiranyakashyap, the
great demon, achieved nearly immortality by the blessings of Brahmaa. This
demon asked for the boon that he could not be killed by a beast or a man, nor
in the sky or on the earth, not inside or outside a house, not in the day or
in the night, not with weapons or by hand and so on.
Vishnu then appeared out of a column to kill this demon. But to fulfill the
boon Brahmaa gave to him, he appeared with alion head on a human body, and
killed him at dusk, on the doorsteps of his palace, with his sharp nails,
keeping him on his knees. It is of course difficult or maybe impossible to
finally judge if this idol was a part of a global Vaidik civilization but
nonetheless our visit of the exhibition, where one can see the figure in a
cave like hall, and our later trip to the original place of discovery where
very breathtaking and mystical and made us meditate deeply about our predecessors
and ancient times long ago where god was present directly on Earth, or later
in his idol form in many temples all around the world. |
Created by Sushma Gupta on 6/15/11
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Updated on
02/13/12
