sentences:  He orders his son to embrace a red hot pillar of iron.Brahma begs Lord Shri Vishnu to do something to overcome the boon.Lord Shri Vishnu appears as Narasimha with the torso of a man and head of a lion, who is both god and man and animal, and kills Hiranyakashipu at twilight, on the threshold of the palace, suspended in air on His thighs, with His bare hands and sharp claws.