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the raksha hiranyakashipu was granted a powerful boon from brahma, not allowing him to be killed by man or animal, inside or out, day or night, or in earth or the stars, with a weapon either living or inanimate. vishnu descended as an anthropomorphic incarnation, with the body of a man and head and claws
of a lion. he then disembowels the rakshasa at the courtyard threshold of his house, at dusk, with his claws, while he lay on his thighs. vamana: the dwarf, appeared in the treta yuga. the fourth descendant of hiranyakashyap, bali, with devotion and penance was able to defeat indra, the god of firmament...
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