Viñëu-dharmottara {cited in Jiva Goswami’s Bhakti Sandarbha, anuccheda 106}
A great devotee brähmaëa named Viçvaksena wandered about the earth. One day he entered the edge of a forest. The son of the village leader came and said to him, “Who are you?” When the brähmaëa identified himself, the son said, “Today my head hurts. I cannot worship Çiva, my worshipable deity. You do the worship in my place.”
etaduktaàpratyuväcavayamekäntinaùçrutäù |
caturätmähariùpüjyaùprädurbhäva-gato’thavä |
püjayämaç ca naivänyaàtasmättvaàgacchamäciram |.
The brähmaëa answered “I am a brähmaëa dedicated to Viñëu. I should worship only Viñëu. I worship no one else. Therefore, go away quickly.” Viñëu-dharma 3.354.12-13
When he said this, the son raised his sword to cut off his head. The brähmaëa, considered it not desirable to die by his hand said, “I will go there.” Going there, he thought in his mind, “Because he increases ignorance, for this reason, Çiva is in tamo–guëa. Nåsiàha should appear here to stop the worship of Çiva, since ignorance can be broken with eradication of Çiva’s associates, just as the sun rises and with its rays destroys ignorance. I will worship Nåsiàha in the Çiva deity, since Çiva’s worshippers have worshipped him in this form.” Taking a handful of flowers, he said “I offer respects to Nåsiàha.”
The son of the village leader raised his sword in anger. Suddenly the liìga split and Nåsiàha appeared and killed the son with his followers.
There is a Nåsiàha deity in the south named Liìga-sphoöa.
