Canto 7: The Science of GodChapter 10: Prahlāda, the Best Among Exalted Devotees

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.54-55

sa nirmāya puras tisro

haimī-raupyāyasīr vibhuḥ

durlakṣyāpāya-saḿyogā

durvitarkya-paricchadāḥ

tābhis te 'sura-senānyo

lokāḿs trīn seśvarān nṛpa

smaranto nāśayāḿ cakruḥ

pūrva-vairam alakṣitāḥ

SYNONYMS

saḥ — that (great demon Maya Dānava); nirmāya — constructing; puraḥ — big residences; tisraḥ — three; haimīmade of gold; raupyāmade of silver; āyasīḥmade of iron; vibhuḥ — very great, powerful; durlakṣya — immeasurable; apāya-saḿyogāḥ — whose movements in coming and going; durvitarkya — uncommon; paricchadāḥ — possessing paraphernalia; tābhiḥ — by all of them (the three residences, which resembled airplanes); te — they; asura-senā-anyaḥ — the commanders of the asuras; lokān trīn — the three worlds; sa-īśvarān — with their chief rulers; nṛpa — my dear King Yudhiṣṭhira; smarantaḥ — remembering; nāśayām cakruḥ — began to annihilate; pūrva — former; vairam — enmity; alakṣitāḥ — unseen by anyone else.

TRANSLATION

Maya Dānava, the great leader of the demons, prepared three invisible residences and gave them to the demons. These dwellings resembled airplanes made of gold, silver and iron, and they contained uncommon paraphernalia. My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, because of these three dwellings the commanders of the demons remained invisible to the demigods. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the demons, remembering their former enmity, began to vanquish the three worlds — the upper, middle and lower planetary systems.

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