Shloka 12

Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention

Devanagari script

पुत्रेण लङ्घितामाज्ञां हिरण्यः प्राह दानवान् एतं नानाविधैर्वध्यं दुष्पुत्रं हन्तुमर्हथ

Transliteration

putreṇa laṅghitāmājñāṃ hiraṇyaḥ prāha dānavān etaṃ nānāvidhairvadhyaṃ duṣputraṃ hantumarhatha

Translation

পুত্ৰে আজ্ঞা লংঘন কৰাত হিৰণ্যই দানৱসকলক ক’লে—“এই দুষ্ট পুত্ৰ নানাভাৱে বধযোগ্য; তোমালোকে একে হত্যা কৰা।”

Word by Word

• पुत्रेण: by (his) son

• लङ्घिता: violated/transgressed

• आज्ञाम्: the command/order

• हिरण्यः: Hiraṇya (Hiraṇyakaśipu)

• प्राह: said/spoke

• दानवान्: to the Dānavas (demons)

• एतम्: this (one)

• नानाविधैः: by many kinds/various means

• वध्यम्: fit to be killed/deserving death

• दुष्पुत्रम्: evil/wicked son

• हन्तुम्: to kill

• अर्हथ: you ought/are fit (to do so).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the episode; internal speech by Hiraṇyakaśipu)