User:Veera Vittala Laxmi Narashima

There are references to Narasimha in a variety of puranas, with seventeen different versions of the main narrative.[4] The Bhagavat Purana (Canto 7), Agni Purana (4.2-3), Brahmanda Puran (2.5.3-29), Vayu Puran (67.61-66), Harivamsa (41 & 3.41-47), Brahma Puran (213.44-79), Vishnudharmottara Puran (1.54), Kurma Puran (1.15.18-72), Matsya Puran (161-163), Padma Puran (Uttara-khanda 5.42), Shiv Puran (2.5.43 & 3.10-12), Linga Puran (1.95-96), Skanda Puran 7 (2.18.60-130) and Vishnu Puran (1.16-20) all contain depictions of the Narasimha Avatar. There is also a short reference in the Mahabharat (3.272.56-60) and a Gopal Tapani Upanishad (Narasimha tapani Upanisad), earliest of Vaishnav Upanishads named in reference to him.[citation needed]