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SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
दिग्गजैर्दन्दशकैश्च अभिचारावपातनैः ।
मायाभिस्सन्निरोधैश्च गरदानैरभोजनैः ।
हिमवाय्वग्निसलिलैः पर्वताक्रमणैरपि ।
 
न शशाक यदा हन्तुमपापमसुरस्सुतम् ।
चिन्तां दीर्घतमां प्राप्तस्तत्कर्तुं नाभ्यपद्यत ॥
 
SL
 
With the elephants at the quarters,
with serpents, by evil incantations, by
throwing him down from heights, by
black-magic, burials, poisonings,
repeated starving, with cold, storm, fire,
water, by rolling boulders on him,-when
by all these means the demon could not
kill his sinless son, he sank into deep
thought but did not find a way of killing
him.
 
अप्रमेयानुभावोऽयमक्कुतश्चिद्भयोऽमरः ।
नूनमेतद्विरोधेन मृत्युर्मे भविता नवा ॥
 
(He said to himself :) "This Prahlada
is of inscrutable power; he has fear from
nothing; he is indeed immortal; surely
by (this) enmity (of mine) with him, there
is going to be death for me, a thing new
to me."