Storia do Mogor 247.5

247.5

Then Vishnu, having tired of the devices and evil deeds of the giant Hiranya, menaced him with death to obtain the deliverance of his adherent, Prahlada. This menace was followed a moment afterwards by his issuing from a pillar turned into a man-lion. Then, when the sun was sinking, when it cannot be called day because that planet is no longer above the earth, and it cannot be called night because the light still peeps through the half-shut door, which cannot be said to be either inside or outside of the house — in this time, and at this place, I say, Vishnu came forth against the giant, and tearing open his chest with his claws, dragged out his entrails. Then he lacerated his throat, and as a proof of victory drank all his blood. But this draught produced such violent frenzy that the god became thereby mad for the rest of his life. In my judgment, those, too, are not less mad who worship him as God.