Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2069

c9.2069

Śivaśarman blessed his son, and by the power of his yoga ascended to Vaikuṇṭha in the company of his wife. After this Somaśarman began practising the most intense form of tapas. When the time for his death was near asuras approached him. Fear about asuras gripped him, who was in deep meditation, and as he breathed his last thinking about asuras he was born in his next life as Prahlāda, son of Hiraṇyakaipu and got killed by Viṣṇu in the war between Devas and Asuras. (Padma Purāṇa, Bhūmi Khaṇḍa).