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Srimushna Bhuvaraha/ಶ್ರೀಮುಷ್ಣ ಭೂವರಾಹ

ವರಾಹ ವರದಂಷ್ಟ್ರ ಯಾ ಕುಟಿಲಯಾ ಕಠೋರಂ ರಿಪುಂ

ವಿದೀರ್ಯ ಸುರಧುರ್ಯ ಗಾಂ ನಿಜಪದಾರವಿಂದಾನುಗಾಮ್|

ಉಪೇತ್ಯ ಸುಖಚಿತ್ತನುಃ ಸರಸಲೀಲಯಾಲಿಂಗ್ಯ ತಾಂ

ಸಿತಾಂಗ ಜಗತಾಂಗತೇ ವಿಹರಸೀಹ ಪುಣ್ಯಸ್ಥಲೇ||41||

VarAha varadamShTra yA kuTilayA kaThOram ripum

Videerya suraDhurya gAm nijapadAravindAnugAm|

Upetya suKhachittanuhu sarasaleelayAlingya tAm

sitAnga jagatAmgatE viharaseeha puNyasThalE||41||

वराह वरदम्ष्ट्र या कुटिलया कठॊरं रिपुं विदीर्य सुरधुर्य गां निजपदारविन्दानुगाम्।

उपॆत्य सुखचित्तनुः सरसलीलयालिन्ग्य तां सितान्ग जगतान्गतॆ विहरसीह पुण्यस्थलॆ॥४१॥

SUMMARY: Oh Lord of the Universe and Supreme God Varaha with white complexion, who tore the rock-hard body of Hiranyaksha with your tusks, took your subservient servant Earth, passionately embraced her and roaming about here with her.

Sri Bhuvaraha Swamy temple at Srimushnam in Tamil Nadu is dedicated to Sri Varaha Avatar or incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Constructed in the Dravidian style, Sri Bhuvaraha Swamy Temple at Srimushnam is a very popular pilgrimage.

Sri Varaha is the third incarnation of Lord Vishnu, which was undertaken to kill Hiranyaksha, brother of Hiranyakashipu, and to save Mother Earth.

Hiranyaksha was a devotee of Lord Brahma and secured a boon from Lord Brahma that no God, human, Demon, Deity, Animal or Beast could kill him. With this boon, Hiranyaksha thought he had become immortal and began torturing the people, harassing gods, goddesses, including Indra. With a view to inflict some permanent trouble to people and gods, Hiranyaksha caught the Mother Earth and took her to the nether world or Patala Loka through sea. Mother Earth began sinking.

Manu was the ruler at that time and along with his wife Shatarupa, he rushed to Lord Brahma and appealed to Lord Brahma to save the Earth. Brahma was helpless since he alone had bestowed the boon upon Hiranyaksha.

Lord Brahma meditated in the name of Lord Vishnu and sought his interference for saving Earth.  Lord Vishnu incarnated as Bhoo Varaha, the form of a Boar. Sri Varaha Swamy ploughed through the ocean. At that moment, Hiranyaksha confronted Varaha Swamy, after he was told by Narada that Lord Vishnu was already at the bottom of the ocean to save Earth. Hiranyaksha rushed towards Sri Varaha Swamy and in the battle that ensued between Sri Varaha and Hiranyaksha, Lord Varaha killed Hiranyaksha, carried the Earth on his protruded mouth and the two tusks and refixed her on her orbit.    

Srimushnam is about 26 miles from Chidambaram through surface transport. It is said that Sri Madhwacharyaru had visited this place and had created a pond there. The pond is known as Danda Teertha. It is also believed that Sri Vishnu incarnated as Varaha at Srimushnam.  

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