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Vishnupurana 1.17.47

Viṣṇupurāṇa 1.17.47

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1.17.47

prahlāda uvāca:
tātaiṣa vahniḥ pavanerito 'pi na māṃ dahaty atra samantato 'ham
paśyāmi padmāstaraṇāstṛtāni śītāni sarvāṇi diśāṃ mukhāni //

Parāçara said:—Thereupon commanded by their master the Dānavas piled a huge heap of wood around the son of the king of Asuras and then put fire thereto to burn him. Prahlāda said—"This fire, although blown up by the wind, doth not burn me: I behold all around me the face of the quarters, cool, and the beds of lotuses". Parāçara said:—Thereupon the twice-born ones, the sons of Bhargava, the high-minded priests skilled in speech and the reciters of Shama Veda, eulogising him, said to the sovereign of the Daityas,—"O king, subdue thy anger against this lad, thy own begotten son. Even thy ire against the celestials bore fruits. O king, we shall so bring up this boy, that he growing humble shall engage in the destruction of thy enemies. O king of daityas, since childishness is the root of all these evils, it behoveth thee to renounce thy ire against this boy. If he according to our instructions, does not abandon the cause of Hari we shall then concert infallible measures to bring about his destruction". Parāçara said Thereupon being thus solicited by the priests the king of Daityas had his son brought out from the flames by the Daityas.

Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam

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