The celebrated 32-syllable Anushtubh mula mantra of Narasimha - among the foremost protection mantras of the Vaishnava tradition, recited for fearlessness and removal of grave danger.
The opening verse of the Mantraraja Pada Stotram (from the Ahirbudhnya Samhita), each verse of which embeds a word of the great Narasimha mantra. Recited for protection and the dissolving of fear.
व्रजामि ते पादसरोजमत्र
हरे न केवलमिदं वचो ममार्थम्।
भवत्प्रसादादहमञ्जसैव
यास्यामि निःश्रेयसमत्र नित्यम्॥
The famous opening verse of Adi Shankaracharya's Lakshmi-Narasimha Karavalamba Stotram, a cry for the Lord's sustaining hand amid the ocean of worldly suffering.
The opening of the Prahlada-krta Narasimha Kavacham (from the Brahmanda Purana), the armour-hymn revealed by Prahlada; recited for all-round protection.
The Bhagavata verse on why the Lord took the unprecedented man-lion form: to make true the boon (that Hiranyakashipu could not be slain by man or beast, inside or outside, by day or night).
सत्यं विधातुं निजभृत्यभाषितं
व्याप्तिं च भूतेष्वखिलेषु चात्मनः।
अदृश्यतात्यद्भुतरूपमुद्वहन्
स्तम्भे सभायां न मृगं न मानुषम्॥