who killed hiranyaksha?

Legend has it that demon hiranyaksha had pushed the mother world down into oceans and lord vishnu appeared as varaha, the boar incarnation, to rescue it. Hiranyaksha is the brother of hiranyakashipu who was eliminated by lord vishnu as narasimha – half-man half-lion. Hiranyaksha means the golden-eyed and he was the son of sage kashyapa and diti.
Varaha

In the former birth hiranyaksha and hiranyakashipu were the brothers jaya and vijaya – they were the gate keepers of the vaikunta or heaven. They became demons due to a curse and they were saved from the curse by lord vishnu by removing their demonic attributes.

Hiranyaksha pushing the world into the ocean symbolically proposes land grabbing and greed.

The stories in the puranas state that hiranyaksha started troubling saints, individuals and devas. At long last, he decisive to drag and throw the world into the ocean. When he did it mother world gave a prominent cry and vishnu appeared in the form of varaha and fought and killed hiranyaksha and restored mother world.

Hiranyakshasymbolically, the dragging of world by demon hiranyaksha is tamas (evil) overcoming human beings. Bloated with ego, man falls deep into misery. The solitary saving grace is that of self realization. When it happens we slowly move out of deep dark pit – that is symbolically represented by varaha uplifting the world with his tusks.

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