Canto 8: Withdrawal of the Cosmic CreationsChapter 23: The Demigods Regain the Heavenly Planets

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.5

labdha-prasādaḿ nirmuktaḿ

pautraḿ vaḿśa-dharaḿ balim

niśāmya bhakti-pravaṇaḥ

prahrāda idam abravīt

SYNONYMS

labdha-prasādam — who had achieved the blessings of the Lord; nirmuktam — who was released from bondage; pautram — his grandson; vaḿśa-dharam — the descendant; balimBali Mahārāja; niśāmya — after overhearing; bhakti-pravaṇaḥin fully ecstatic devotion; prahrādaḥPrahlāda Mahārāja; idam — this; abravīt — spoke.

TRANSLATION

When Prahlāda Mahārāja heard how Bali Mahārāja, his grandson and descendant, had been released from bondage and had achieved the benediction of the Lord, he spoke as follows in a tone of greatly ecstatic devotion.

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