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RY OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT.
 
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THE STORY OF PRAHLADA 139
 
welfare to you all.
 
I have known the
 
wickedness of this Hiranyakasipu, the
worst of demons. I will put an end to
him, but wait for a time.
 
'यदा देवेषु वेदेषु गोषु विप्रेषु साधुषु ।
 
धर्मे मयि च विद्वेषः स वा आशु विनश्यति ॥
 
"When one hates gods, Vedas, cows,
Brahmins, good men, Dharma and Myself,
he perishes soon.
 
'निर्वैराय प्रशान्ताय स्वसुताय महात्मने ।
प्रह्लादाय यदा द्रोद्धनिष्येऽपि वरोर्जितम् ॥'
 
"When however he turns inimical
towards his own son Prahlada, a great
soul, devoid of any feeling of enmity and
completely tranquil, I will kill him,
though he is strong with boons."
 
दिवौकसो गतोद्वेगा मेनिरे चासुरं हतम् ॥
 
The gods became rid of their mental
distress and took the demon as killed.
 
तस्य दैत्यपतेः पुत्राश्चत्वारः परमाद्भुताः ।
प्रहलादोऽभून्महांस्तेषां गुणैर्महदुपासकः ॥