Jagannath-Nrsimah or Nrsimah-Jagganath?

Hare Krishna!
Please accept my Humble obeiscences.

I Find that since ive Joined Iskcon ive found a very strong attraction to Lord Nrsimahdeva, possibly because my first festival was Nrsimah apperance, and his many diffrent forms fascinate me and i often surf sites that have pictures of the Lord in this form.

I was on the New Zealand ISKCON site when i came across a Nrsimah Jagganath in their photo gallery and have become fasicanted.

Ive asked me fellow devotees at the ISKCON London temple but no one seems to have to much of an idea. A good friend of mine has told me she has come accross this form too, and suggests that as they can both be seen as naryan forms the naryan forms tend to mix themselves up at thier pleasure such as Varaha-Nrsima the boar/lion incarnation. I found this odd because being so new i havent come across Jagannath as a Naryan form, but that asside some one has also suggested its Nrsimah enacting the mood of Jagannath, which i think is less plausable in the case of the photo on the NZ website as he is disembowling Heranyakasipu.

Has anyone come accross this before? Or perhaps knows a Lila where this happened maby like Jagannaths lila on Snan-yatra in his elephant form?

I cant get to the Gallery with the deity in it but when i can ill post the link.

Thank you
YOur Servant
BB

NityānandaChandra's picture

I don't remember the pastime

I don't remember the pastime but I know different acharyas have envisioned Jagannatha Baladeva and Subhadra differently, It is called vesh or vesha, envisioning Them in different forms.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayapur/sets/72157605771663483/

http://www.fullorissa.com/puri/temple_besha.htm this is what it says onthe puri website

Different Besha of Lords in Jagannath Temple

We know that in the Srimandir tradition of Puri there are altogether 24 beshas of which 22 are held every year during the different months while two beshas take place but rarely. The two held on rare occasions are the Nagarjuna Besha and Raghunath Besha. But almost in all the beshas one salient feature is obvious that Lord Jagannath is the focal point in all of them while his companion deities, Lord Balabhadara and Devi Subhadra are not so central. With most of the beshas there is some legend associated and the legend inevitably centres round the black-faced, Round eyed god, Lord Jagannath. But it is not so with the Pralambasurabadha Besha, This is the only beshas when Lord Jagannath's elder brother Lord Balabhadra occupid the central place. On the 20th day of the bright fortnight of Bhadrv, this beshas takes place. These are the beshas...