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Puri, Odisha · 19.8175°, 85.8400°
A west-facing Narasimha temple about sixty feet high standing between the Gundicha temple and the Indradyumna tank at Puri, laid out on Vaishnava Agama principles and housing both the calm and the wrathful images of the deity.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The Skanda Purana tells that king Indradyumna had a Narasimha image carved in black stone and worshipped it here while preparing his Ashwamedha sacrifice, whence the deity is called Yajna Narasimha.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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