Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 7: The Science of God Chapter One: The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone Chapter Two: Hiranyakasipu, King of the DemonsChapter Three: Hiranyakasipu's Plan to Become ImmortalChapter Four: Hiranyakasipu Terrorizes the UniverseChapter Five: Prahlada Maharaja, the Saintly Son of HiranyakasipuChapter Six: Prahlada Instructs His Demoniac SchoolmatesChapter Seven: What Prahlada Learned in the WombChapter Eight: Lord Nrsimhadeva Slays the King of the DemonsChapter Nine: Prahlada Pacifies Lord Nrsimhadeva with PrayersChapter Ten: Prahlada, the Best Among Exalted DevoteesChapter Eleven: The Perfect Society: Four Social ClassesChapter Twelve: The Perfect Society: Four Spiritual ClassesChapter Thirteen: The Behavior of a Perfect PersonChapter Fourteen: Ideal Family LifeChapter Fifteen: Instructions for Civilized Human Beings The fourth among the Dasavatara is Sri Nrisimha-avatara. Among the innumerable avataras, twenty-five are pre-eminent as has been stated before in connection with Matsya-avatara. Of these twenty-five, Sri Nrisimhadeva is the fourteenth. He is the vaibhava-vilasa (expansion in magnificence) of the tadekatma form of Sri Krishna. The second catur-vyuha (quadruple expansion) of Sri Krishna is comprised of Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, and each of these has two further vilasa expansions. Pradyumnas expansions are Sri Nrisimhadeva and Sri Janardana. Besides that, it is also described that in the second catur-vyuha, Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are the prabhava-vilasa (predominating transcendental pastime expansions) of Sri Krishna. There are a total of twenty further expansions of these four prabhava-vilasa forms. They can be recognised according to the placement of four different symbols in Their hands: conch (sankha), mace (gada), lotus (padma) and disc (cakra). Regarding Sri Nrisimhadeva, these symbols appear in the order of cakra, padma, gada and sankha (disc in the lower right hand, lotus in the upper right hand, mace in the upper left hand and conch in the lower left hand). In the Seventh Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, the pastime of Sri Nrisimhadevas appearance is briefly narrated as follows: Due to the curse of the four Kumaras (Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanat), Jaya and Vijaya, the doorkeepers of Vaikuntha, took birth as Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu, as the two sons of Diti and Kasyapa Ashi. Of the two sons, Hiranyakasipu was senior and affectionate to his brother. Lord Sri Hari, in the form of Lord Varaha, took the side of the demigods and killed Hiranyaksha. Desiring to take revenge, Hiranyakasipu began to consider Lord Vishnu as his enemy and developed malicious feelings toward Him. He encouraged the demons to disturb ritualistic ceremonies and kill the brahmanas. He also decided to perform severe austerities for one hundred years to get the benediction of achieving unrivalled supremacy of the three worlds. When Lord Brahma became pleased by his austerities and appeared before him, Hiranyakasipu asked for the benediction of becoming immortal. Lord Brahma explained his inability to give him the boon of immortality, so Hiranyakasipu asked for the boon of immortality in a different manner by requesting the following conditions: that he not be killed during the day or night, either inside or outside, in the sky or on the ground. He also asked that he not be killed by any weapon or by any