Shloka 9

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

Devanagari script

प्रह्राद जीविते वाञ्छा तवैषा शृणु चास्ति चेत् श्रुत्वापि तस्य वचनं हिरण्यकशिपोः सुधीः

Transliteration

prahrāda jīvite vāñchā tavaiṣā śṛṇu cāsti cet śrutvāpi tasya vacanaṃ hiraṇyakaśipoḥ sudhīḥ

Translation

প্ৰহ্লাদ, যদি তোৰ এতিয়াও জীয়াই থাকিবলৈ ইচ্ছা থাকে, তেন্তে এই কথা শুন। তোৰ বাক্য শুনিও ‘সুধী’ হিৰণ্যকশিপুৱে তাক গ্ৰহণ নকৰিলে।

Word by Word

• प्रह्राद (Prahlāda): O Prahlāda

• जीविते (jīvite): in life / for survival

• वाञ्छा (vāñchā): desire, wish

• तव (tava): your

• एषा (eṣā): this

• शृणु (śṛṇu): listen

• च (ca): and

• अस्ति (asti): there is

• चेत् (cet): if

• श्रुत्वा अपि (śrutvā api): even after hearing

• तस्य (tasya): his

• वचनम् (vacanam): speech, statement

• हिरण्यकशिपोः (hiraṇyakaśipoḥ): of Hiraṇyakaśipu

• सुधीः (sudhīḥ): the intelligent one (ironically used).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the episode; internal speech attributed to Hiranyakashipu or his side as admonition to Prahlada)