Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /182

OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
Tormenting his son repeatedly with
such bad words, that HE STORY OF PRAHLADA
 
GL
 
भारत
 
Tormentiranyakasipu of
exceeding his son restrength struck a peatedlyillar with
such bad words, that Hiranyakasipu ot
exceeding strength struck a pillar with

his fist.
 

 
तदैव तस्मिन्निनदोऽतिभीषणो

बभूव येनाण्डकटाहमस्फुटत् ॥
 

Instantaneously there arose from that

pillar a very terrific noise, by which the

pot of the universe cracked.
 

 
सत्यं विधातुं निजभृत्यभाषित
तं
व्याप्तिं च भूतेष्वखिलेषु चात्मनः ।

अदृश्यतात्यद्भुतरूपमुद्रवहन्
 

स्तंभे सभायां न मृगं न मानुषम् ॥
 

To make true the words of his servant

(Prahlada) and his own immanence in all

things, the Lord manifested Himself in

the pillar in the court-hall, taking a very

wonderful form, neither animal nor

human.
 

 
स सत्त्वमेनं परितोऽपि पश्यन्

स्तंभस्य मध्यादनुनिर्जिहानम् ।

'नायं मृगो नापि नरो विचित्र-

महो किमेतन्नृमृगेन्द्ररूपम् ।