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RY OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT
welfare to you all.
 
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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 द्रोह्योद्धनिष्येऽपि 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 ।

प्रह्लादोऽभून्महांस्तेषां गुणैर्महदुपासकः ॥