Narasimha has Hiranyakasipu on his lap and is ripping his entrails out. I think that the different hands (except the ones holding the conch and the discus) show different hand positions in a single movement. So, what we see here is stop-action-photography of Hiranyakashipu's intestine being ripped out. Atleast, that's my guess :-)
Coming to the story being described.. You would think that after a couple of tries, the rakshasas would figure out that the boons that Brahma gives them all have a catch in them. Maybe they aren't given to introspection :-)Hiranyakasipu, a case in point. He asked that he not be killed by metals or by wood, not by man or beast, and not indoors or outdoors. He thought he was safe. So, he was killed at a doorway, by a half-man, half-lion, and by having his intestines ripped out by claws. I daresay that decapitation by the chakra (which seems to be the fate of most who oppose Vishnu) would have been a whole lot less painful.
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