Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2395

c8.2395

Hiraṇyakaśipu then sent the aṣṭadiggajas (the eight elephants who bear the burden of this earth) to kill Prahlāda. The huge animals bigger than the biggest of mountains threw the boy to the ground and struck him with their long and pointed tusks. Prahlāda lay meditating on Mahāviṣṇu and the tusks that hit the body of Prahlāda were broken to bits. Prahlāda was then thrown into a pit of fire. But the wind-blown ferocious fire was not able to burn him and as he lay in the fire-pit meditating on Mahāviṣṇu he felt he was lying on a bed of lotuses.