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VITA
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●●संस्कृति मंत्रोच
 
THE STORY OF PRAHLADA
 
Prahlada who deserves to be killed;
-demons! take him away. This Vishnu
is the person who killed my brother and
this base Prahlada, leaving his own
friends, does servile worship at the feet
of him who killed his own uncle."
 
नैर्ऋतास्ते समादिष्टा भर्त्रा वै शूलपाणयः ।
तिग्मदंष्टकरालास्याः छिन्धि भिन्धीति वादिनः ।
आसीनं चाहनन्छूले: प्रह्लादं सर्वमर्मसु ।
 
Those demons ordered by their Lord,
armed with tridents, their faces terrible
with sharp fangs and shouting 'cut him,
tear him', struck with their tridents
Prahlada whs was sitting, at all the vital
parts of his body.
 
परे ब्रह्मण्यनिर्देश्ये भगवत्यखिलात्मनि ।
युक्तात्मन्यफला आसन् दैत्येन्द्रः परिशङ्कितः ।
चकार तद्वधोपायान्निवेन्वेन [युधिष्ठिर] ॥
 
(Those tortures) were futile against
Prahlada who had riveted his soul on the
supreme Brahman, the inscrutable Lord,
the soul of all. Fearing (the impossibi-
lity of killing him), the lord of the
demons sought pertinaciously (several)
means of killing him.