[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 7.18.89\_66 # Skandapurana 7.18.89\_66 Skandapurāṇa 7.18.89\_66 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.18.89\_66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_66) sanatkumāra uvāca śakreṇa girayaḥ pūrvaṃ chinnapakṣā yathā kṛtāḥ . tat pravakṣyāmi te vyāsa śṛṇu sarvamaśeṣataḥ . .1 . . purā siṃhavapuḥ kṛtvā viṣṇunā paramaujasā . daityadānavanāthe tu hiraṇyakaśipau hate . .2 .. prahrādastatsuto daityo viṣṇuṃ prati cukopa ha . hate pitari sa śrīmān mahādaityapatīśvaraḥ ..3 .. bahūnyabdasahasrāṇi cakārograṃ mahātapaḥ . atha devaścaturvaktrastuṣṭastamasurādhipam . .4. . provāca svayamāgatya varadosmīti sādaram . praṇamyovāca varadamidaṃ brahmāṇamāgatam1 . .5 . . prahlādo manyutaptāṅgaḥ piturvadhamanusmaran . bhagavan yadi tuṣṭosi varadaśca samāgataḥ . .6.. rājānaṃ hatavān viṣṇuḥ pitaraṃ mama māyayā . saṃgrāme tamahaṃ viṣṇuṃ yathā hanyāṃ tathā kuru . .7.. tamuvāca tato brahmā prahlādamasurottamam . ajayyaḥ samare viṣṇuravadhyaśca surāsuraiḥ ..8.. prasādāddevadevasya jagatsraṣṭurumāpateḥ . naiṣa śakyo mayā dātuṃ varastubhyaṃ mahāsura . .9 .. - - - - - - - - -- - - 68 jagatīśvarāṇāṃ ka . 1 praṇamya tamuvācedaṃ varadaṃ brahmamāgamatam - ka. . - - - - - - - - -- - - > Sanatkumāra said: / How the mountains previously had their wings severed by Śakra, / that I shall tell you, O Vyāsa; listen to it all in full. > Formerly, when Hiraṇyakaśipu, the lord of the Daityas and Dānavas, / had been slain by Viṣṇu of supreme splendor, who had assumed the body of a lion, > his son, the Daitya Prahrāda, became enraged against Viṣṇu. / His father being killed, that glorious sovereign lord of the great Daityas > performed fierce, great austerity for many thousands of years. / Then the four-faced god \[Brahmā\], pleased, approached that sovereign of the asuras himself > and said with respect, "I am the granter of boons." / Having bowed, Prahlāda, his limbs burning with rage, remembering the murder of his father, > spoke this to Brahmā who had arrived to grant a boon: / "Lord, if you are pleased and have come granting a boon: > Viṣṇu killed my father, the king, through delusion. / Act so that I may kill that Viṣṇu in battle." > Then Brahmā said to him, Prahlāda, the foremost of asuras: / "Viṣṇu is unconquerable in battle, and immune to being killed by gods and asuras, > by the grace of the god of gods, the creator of the world, Umā's lord \[Śiva\]. / This boon cannot be granted by me to you, O great asura. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.18.89\_65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_65) - [Next: 7.18.89\_67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_67) - [Up: 7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.18.89_66) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_66) · Pramāṇa