Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2398

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The daityas and dānavas brought mountains and dropped them over Prahlāda lying inside the ocean. The mountains lay spread over thousands of miles. Lying thus in the ocean the pious boy prayed to Mahāviṣṇu and the latter appeared before him and granted him boons. Escaping from the ocean Prahlāda went to his father and prostrated before him. Hiraṇyakaśipu was astounded to see him alive and taking him in his arms embraced him and with tears rolling down his cheeks for having tortured him so far asked him “My son, you are still alive, you are not?” After that he started treating him as his son. (Chapter 20, Aṃśa 1, Viṣṇu Purāṇa).