Vamana Purana — Prahlada vs Nara-Narayana, Shloka 60
Prahlada’s Defeat by Nara-Narayana and Victory through Bhakti
ततो नरो बाणगणैरसख्यैरवास्तरद्भूमिमथो दिशः खम् स चापि दैत्यप्रवरः पृषत्कैश्चिच्छेद वेगात् तपनीयपुङ्खैः
tato naro bāṇagaṇairasakhyairavāstaradbhūmimatho diśaḥ kham sa cāpi daityapravaraḥ pṛṣatkaiściccheda vegāt tapanīyapuṅkhaiḥ
ಆಮೇಲೆ ಆ ನರನು ಅಸಂಖ್ಯ ಬಾಣಗುಚ್ಛಗಳಿಂದ ಭೂಮಿ, ದಿಕ್ಕುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಆಕಾಶವನ್ನು ಆವರಿಸಿದನು. ದೈತ್ಯಪ್ರವರನು ಸ್ವರ್ಣಪಕ್ಷಗಳಿರುವ ವೇಗಶರಗಳಿಂದ ಅವನ್ನು ತ್ವರಿತವಾಗಿ ಛೇದಿಸಿ ಕೆಡವಿದನು.
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FAQs
The verse illustrates that aggression provokes counter-aggression; violence multiplies and fills one’s whole ‘world’ (earth, sky, directions). The implied ethic is that conflict expands to consume all space of awareness unless checked by higher discernment.
Again, carita/vamśānucarita-style narrative: a descriptive battle scene within the historical-legendary stream of the Purāṇa rather than cosmological categories.
‘Covering earth, directions, and sky’ is a stock totality-image: conflict becomes totalizing. The daitya’s cutting down of arrows with golden-feathered shafts symbolizes technical mastery and the arms-race dynamic—skill answering skill—until a transcendent resolution (often divine) becomes necessary in the broader purāṇic arc.