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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.35
SYNONYMS
evam — in this way; ca — also; pārshadau — the two personal associates; vishnoh — of Lord Vishnu; putratvam — becoming the sons; prāpitau — having gotten; diteh — of Diti; hridi — within the core of the heart; sthitena — being situated; harinā — by the Supreme Lord; vaira-bhāvena — by conceiving as an enemy; tau — both of them; hatau — were killed.
TRANSLATION
Thus the two associates of Lord Vishnu who had become Hiranyāksha and Hiranyakaśipu, the sons of Diti, were both killed. By illusion they had thought that the Supreme Lord, who is situated in everyone's heart, was their enemy.
PURPORT
The discourse concerning Lord Nrisimhadeva and Prahlāda Mahārāja began when Mahārāja Yudhishthira asked Nārada how Śiśupāla had merged into the body of Krishna. Śiśupāla and Dantavakra were the same Hiranyāksha and Hiranyakaśipu. Here Nārada Muni is relating how in three different births the associates of Lord Vishnu were killed by Lord Vishnu Himself. First they were the demons Hiranyāksha and Hiranyakaśipu.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness