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Hiranyakashipu

According to Sources the birthplace of Hiranyakashipu is Moolsthan (present-day Multan).


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History of Multan

Hiranyakashipu, unable to control his anger, smashes the pillar with his mace, it burst in two and out sprang the god Vishnu in the form of a man-lion form called Narasimha Avatar who laid the King across his knees and ripped his stomach open with his claws.

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His sons from Diti were, Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha and a daughter Sinhika, who later became the wife of Viprachitti.


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