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N OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT O
 
VITA
HOM
 
●●संस्कृति मंत्रोच
 
THE STORY OF
PRAHLADA
 
P
rahlada 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 ।

तिग्मदंष्ट्रकरालास्याः छिन्धि भिन्धीति वादिनः ।

आसीनं चाहनन्ञ्छूलेलै: 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 तद्वधोपायान्निवेर्बन्वेधेन [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.