Narasimha is a fierce avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, one who incarnates in the form of part lion and part man to destroy evil and end religious persecution and calamity on Earth, thereby restoring Dharma. Narasimha iconography shows him with a human torso and lower body, with a lion face and claws with a demon Hiranyakashipu in his lap whom he is in the process of killing; the demon is powerful brother of evil Hiranyaksha, killed by Vishnu, who hated Vishnu for killing his brother. Hiranyakashipu gains special powers by which he could not be killed during the day or night, inside or outside, by any weapon, by man or animal. Endowed with new powers, Hiranyakashipu creates chaos, persecutes all devotees of Vishnu including his own son. Vishnu understands the demon's power creatively adapts into a mixed avatar, neither man nor animal and kills the demon at the junction of day and night and outside. Narasimha is known as the'Great Protector' who defends and protects his devotees from evil; the most popular Narasimha mythology is the legend that protects his devotee Prahlada, creatively destroys Prahlada's demonic father and tyrant Hiranyakashipu.

Narasimha legends are revered in Vaikhanasas, Sri Vaishnavism, Madhwa Brahmins but he is a popular deity beyond these Vaishnava traditions such as in Shaivism. He is celebrated in many regional Hindu temples, performance arts and festivals such as Holika prior to the Hindu spring festival of colors called Holi; the oldest known artwork of Narasimha has been found at several sites across Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, such as at the Mathura archaeological site. These have been variously dated between 2nd and 4th-century CE; the word Narasimha consists of two words "nara" which means man, "simha" which means lion. Together the term means "man-lion", he is known as Narasingh, Narasingha,Nrusingha and Narasinghar in derivative languages. His other names are Agnilochana - the one who has fiery eyes, Bhairavadambara - the one who causes terror by roaring, Karala - the one who has a wide mouth and projecting teeth, Hiranyakashipudvamsa - the one who killed Hiranyakashipu, Nakhastra - the one for whom nails are his weapons, Sinhavadana - the whose face is of lion and Mrigendra - king of animals or lion.

The Vishnu hymn 1.154 of the Rigveda contains a verse with allusions to a "wild beast, prowling, mountain-roaming", interpreted by some to be the Narasiṃha legend. Another hymn 8.14 alludes to the Namuci legend with "waters' foam you tore off, the head of Namuci, subduing all contending hosts", but the hymns does not present details. A more complete version of the Namuci legend is found in Shatapatha Brahmana of the Yajurveda in chapter 12.7.3. Other references to Narasimha are found in the Vedic texts Vajaseneyi Samhita 10.34, Pancavimsa Brahmana 12.6.8 and Taittiriya Brahmana 1.7.1.6. Narasimha has roots in the metaphors filled Indra-Namuci legend in the Vedas. Indra is the dharmic leader of the Devas who commands lightning, thunder and rivers, while Namuci is a deceptive demigod Asura in competition for power. Namuci suggests peace to Indra, he demands Indra to promise that he will neither try to slay him with his "palm of the hand nor with the fist", neither in day nor in night, neither "anything that the dry" nor "anything, moist".

Indra agrees. After the deal is done, Namuci carries away all that nourishes the Devas: the Soma drink, the essence of food and the strength of Indra; the leader of the gods finds himself feels bound by his promise. Indra meets Saraswati and Ashvins, they reply they will deal with Namuci, get it all back, if Indra agrees to share his powers, the essence of food and the Soma drink with them. Indra agrees; the gods and the goddess come up with a creative plan. They pour out "foam of water" as a thunderbolt, neither dry nor moist, the evil Asura Namuci is attacked and killed when it is neither day nor night. After Namuci is killed, the gods get all the powers back, but discover that Namuci had drunk the Soma already; the good was thus now mixed with his badness of his blood. So, they extract the good out from the bad. Thus, good returns to the Devas, the bad is discarded. According to Deborah Soifer, the Vedic legend has many parallels with the Narasimha legend, it has the same plot, the same "neither-nor" constraints, the same creative spirit that allows the good to vanquish the evil.

Further, the Sanskrit words and phrasing such as "neither palm nor fist" and "neither day nor night" in the Hindu texts is the same as in the Vedic texts. This suggests a link and continuity between the Vedic Namuci legend and the Narasimha legend in the Puranas. According to Walter Ruben, both versions along with several other legends in ancient and medieval texts reflect the Indian tradition against despots and tyrants who abuse power. There are references to Narasiṃha in a variety of Purāṇas, with 17 different versions of the main narrative; the Valmiki Ramayana, Harivaṃśa, Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Bhagavata Purāṇa, Agni Purāṇa, Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Vayu Purāṇa, Brahma-Purāṇa, Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa, Kūrma Purāṇa, Matsya Purāṇa, Padma Purāṇa, Śiva Purāṇa, Linga Purana and Skanda Purāṇa 7 all contain depictions of the Narasiṃha Avatāra. Narasimha is found in the Mahābhārata and is the focus

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Today’s European languages do not use many parts of the tongue and mouth while speaking or many finger movements while writing, whereas Sanskrit helps immensely to develop cerebral dexterity through its phonetics." Students of St. James chanted Vedic hymns in presence of Queen Elizabeth at the Buckingham Palace in 2010 to celebrate beginning of the Commonwealth Games; the School of Economic Science, through associated overseas schools, supports independent children's schools in a number of countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and the United States. The St James' Schools are independent from the School of Economic Science, they seek to preserve the ethos of their founding philosophical principles which are derived from the Advaita Vedanta philosophical tradition, which the schools describe as encompassing the concept of unity, of a multicultural approach which embraces all faiths – and no faith. Philosophy is taught and transcendental meditation is an optional practice in the schools.

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