Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /51

Lifting with His tusk the earth which
was submerged, He rose up from the
nether world and looked resplendent.
TRY OF CUhere, (in the nether world) the LTURE
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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Lifting with His tusk the earth which
was submergeord, He rose u
whose p from the
nether world and looked resplendent.
Thererowess none can withstand, (in the nether world) the Lord,
can withstand,
whose prowess none

killed the prime demon (Hiranyaksha)*

who attacked Him with his mace and

obstructed Him.
 

 
क्ष्मामुत्क्षिपन्तं गजलीलयाऽङ्ग

विरिञ्चिमुख्या उपतस्थुरीशम् ॥
 

The creator and other (sages and gods)

extolled the. Master who was lifting up

the earth, with the ease of an elephant

(lifting a little object).
 
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ANA
 
तरकृति या
 

 
* THE STORY OF HIRANYAKSHA: Once Sanaka

and other sons of Brahma went to Vishnu's abode in

Vaikuntha to worship Him and they were prevented

from entering the sanctum by Jaya and Vijaya, the

door-keepers of Vishnu. For this rudeness, Jaya and

Vijaya were cursed to be born as demons. They are

first born as the prime demon-twins, Hiranyakasipu

and Hiranyaksha, in the womb of Diti. The latter is

slain by the Lord in the Varaha avatara and the

former in the Narasimha avatara. They are again

born as Ravana and Kumbhakarna to be slain in the

Rama avatara and once again as Sisupala and

Danthavaktra to be slain in the Krishna avatara.

These successive encounters with the Lord and death

at His hands purify them and they ultimately regain

the divine state which was theirs before their fall.