Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.949

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3) *Diti's sons.* Asuras were Diti's sons. Chief among them were Hiraṇyakaśipu and Hiraṇyākṣa. They had a sister named Simhikā. Hiraṇyakaśipu had four sons—Anuhlāda, Hlāda, Prahlāda and Saṃhlāda who were famous for their glory and might. Śūrapadma, Simhavaktra, Tārakāsura, Gomukha and Ajāmukha were also Diti's sons. Of them, Śūrapadma had four sons by his wife Mayasutā, who were Bhānukopa, Agnimukha, Vajrabāhu and Hiraṇya. An asura named Mahāsūra was born to Simhavaktra by his wife, Vibhūti. The Asuras, Śambara, Śakuni, Dvimūrdhā, Śaṅku, Aśva, were the sons of Hiraṇyākṣa. Anuhlāda married Vipracitti; Rāhu and Ketu were born to them. Saṃhlāda, the son of Hiraṇyakaśipu had three sons, Āyuṣmān, Śibi and Bāṣkala. Virocana was the son of Prahlāda; Mahābali was the son of Virocana; Bāṇa was born to Mahābali and to Bāṇa were born four crores of Nivātakavacas. All these were the prominent children of Diti. Besides them, Diti had crores of other Asuras born to her. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Part 1, Chapter 3; Harivaṃśa, Chapter 3).