Vamana Purana — Prahlada's Victory through Bhakti, Shloka 39
Prahlada’s Defeat in Battle and Victory through Bhakti (Nara-Narayana Episode)
प्रह्लाद उवाच मया जितं देवदेव त्रैलोक्यमपि सुव्रत जितो ऽयं त्वत्प्रसादेन शक्रः किमुत धर्मजः
prahlāda uvāca mayā jitaṃ devadeva trailokyamapi suvrata jito 'yaṃ tvatprasādena śakraḥ kimuta dharmajaḥ
Prahlāda thưa: “Ôi Thần của các thần, ôi Đấng giữ hạnh nguyện cao quý—chính con đã từng chinh phục cả ba cõi. Thế mà Indra này lại chiến thắng nhờ ân sủng của Ngài; huống chi là con trai của Dharma!”
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FAQs
Prahlada acknowledges that worldly dominance (even ‘three-world conquest’) is secondary to divine sanction. The verse teaches that success—whether of devas or asuras—ultimately depends on īśvara-prasāda, not egoic strength.
Vamśānucarita/Carita: exempla through the speech of a paradigmatic devotee (Prahlada). It functions as didactic theology within narrative history rather than creation/renewal cycles.
Prahlada, the archetypal asura-bhakta, becomes the voice that relativizes asuric conquest and deva victory alike. ‘Indra victorious by your grace’ symbolizes that cosmic order (dharma) is restored through the divine, not through factional might.