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Banasura used to worship a rasalingam given to him by Vishvakarman, on instruction from Vishnu. As an ardent devotee of Shiva, he used his thousand arms to play the mridangam when Shiva was performing the tandavam dance. When Shiva offered Banasura a boon, the latter requested Shiva to be his city's guardian: therefore, Banasura became invincible.
Kanyakumari, who killed Banasura; Chamunda, who killed Chanda and Munda; Kaushiki, who killed Shumbha and Nishumbha; Minakshi, who defeated all the demigods and destroyed the arrogance of all demigods. Shakti is usually depicted as having the weapons of all the gods, including those of the Trimurti.
Namasu's elder brother, Banasura, [5] is known for his unwavering devotion to Shiva, serving as a divine attendant in his celestial abode of Kailash.Namasu is described to have played a role during Vishnu's incarnation of Vamana, accompanying his father to Patala (netherworld).
Banasura was a great devotee of Shiva and as a result of a boon granted to him from the deity, had gained 1000 arms. Intoxicated by his prowess, he observed to Shiva that he was the latter's equal, and that he had attempted to fight elephants, but the creatures had grown terrified of him.
Asura kingdom, or Sonitpura kingdom, is a mythological kingdom that is mentioned in a multiple of Hindu epics [1] which later came to be associated with modern-day Tezpur in central Assam and Banasura Hill in Kerala.
The history of earnest is thousands of years old. It is called the city of Banasura, because the premonition of Usha, the daughter of Banasura and Aniruddha, the great-grandson of Lord Krishna, is described in Srimad Bhagwat 10.62 and Puranas. The Bayana Usha Temple here is a proof of this. In the year 322 Gupta dynasty was ruled by ...
The town is named after the King Banasura of Lord Shri Krishna era (as the epic tells). Banasura, a demon-king who is said to have ruled over this place. Major point of attraction here is the temple dedicated to Goddess Bhagabati (odisha Hindu goddess), the presiding deity of Banapur. It is one of the famous Shaktipithas of Odisha.
Prahlada prays to Narasimha as Narasimha disembowels and kills Hiranyakashipu. Prahlada was born to Kayadhu and Hiranyakashipu, an evil asura king who had been granted a boon from Brahma that he could not be killed off by anything born from a living womb, neither by a man nor an animal, neither during the day nor at night, neither indoors nor outdoors, neither on land nor in the air nor in ...