śrī ghaṭikācala hanumat stotram

From the Brahmanda Purana, and it exists to explain a name. Narada asks Brahma which is the best of all places, and Brahma answers with a quarrel — a dispute long ago between Narayana and the lord of the monkeys, settled by each offering a faster grace than the last: in one month the giver of boons, in two the lord of Ranga, in half a month Venkateshvara. The hill wins by granting in a ghatika what the others take months over, and it has been the hill of the ghatika ever since. The meditation verse at the front is the Sholinghur image exactly: a face of the palest red, the body carrying the golden mountain, conch and discus in the hands, seated on the yoga-seat with the feet crossed, holding the sign of fearlessness and a rosary and a tablet, living at the root of the coral tree, a boy facing west and fixed in meditation upon Narasimha.