श्रुतश्रवसमपि चेदिराजो दमघोषनामोपयेमे ॥ ४,१४.
Shrutashrava was also married by the Chedi king named Damaghosha.
तस्यां च शिशुपालमुत्पादयामास ॥ ४,१४.
In her, Shishupala was born.
स वा पूर्वमप्युदारविक्रमो दैत्यानामादिपुरुषो हिरण्यकशिपुरभवत् ॥ ४,१४.
He, in a previous birth, was the noble and mighty Hiranyakashipu, the primeval being among the Daityas.
यश्च भगवता सकललोकगुरुणा नारसिंहेन घातितः ॥ ४,१४.
He was slain by the Lord, the teacher of all worlds, in the form of Narasimha.
पुनरपि अक्षयवीर्यशौर्यसंपत्पराक्रमगुणःसमाक्रान्तसकलत्रैलोकेश्वरप्रभावो दशाननो नामाभूत् ॥ ४,१४.
Again, endowed with inexhaustible strength, heroism, prosperity, and valor, possessing the power of all the lords of the three worlds, he became known as Dashanana.
बहुकालोपभुक्तभगवत्सकाशावाप्तशरीरपातोद्भवपुण्यफलो भगवता राघवरूपिणा सोऽपि निधनमुपपादितः ॥ ४,१४.
Having enjoyed many ages, and after falling in battle at the hands of the Lord in the form of Raghava, he attained the fruit of his accumulated merit.
पुनश्चेदिराजस्य दमघोषस्यात्मजः शिशु पालनामाभवत् ॥ ४,१४.
Again, he was born as Shishupala, the son of Damaghosha, king of Chedi.
शिशुपालत्वेपि भगवतो भूभारावतारणायावतीर्णांशस्य पुण्डरीकनयनाख्यस्योपरि द्वेषानुबन्धमतितराञ्चकार ॥ ४,१४.
Even as Shishupala, he developed intense enmity toward the Lord, who had descended as Pundarikanayana for the removal of the earth's burden.
भगवता च स निधनमुपानीतस्तत्रैव परमात्मभूते मनस एकाग्रतया सायुज्यमवाप ॥ ४,१४.
And by the Blessed Lord, he was brought to his end there itself, and through single-pointed concentration of mind upon the Supreme Self, he attained union with Him.
भगवान् यदि प्रसन्नो यथाभिलषितं ददाति तथा अग्रसन्नोपि निघ्नन् दिव्यमनुपमं स्थानं प्रयच्छति ॥ ४,१४.
If the Blessed Lord is pleased, He grants whatever is desired; likewise, even when confronting as an enemy and slaying, He bestows a divine and incomparable state.
मैत्रेय उवाच हिरण्यकशिपुत्वे च रावणत्वे च विष्णुना । अवाप निहतो भोगानप्राप्यानमरैरपि ॥ ४,१५.
Maitreya said: In the forms of Hiraṇyakaśipu and Rāvaṇa, though slain by Viṣṇu, he obtained enjoyments not attained even by the immortals.
न लयं तत्र तेनैव निहतः स कथं पुनः । संप्राप्तः शिशुपालत्वे सायुज्यं शाश्वते हरौ ॥ ४,१५.
Yet, being slain by Him, he did not attain dissolution then; how did he again, in the form of Śiśupāla, obtain eternal union with Hari?
एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं सर्वधर्मभृत्तां वर । कौतूहलपरेणैतत्पृष्टो मे वक्तुमर्हसि ॥ ४,१५.
This I wish to hear from you, O best of those upholding all dharma; prompted by curiosity, I have asked this—please tell me.
श्रीपराशर उवाच दैत्येश्वरस्य वधायाशिललोकोत्पत्तिस्थितिविनाशकारिणा पूर्वं तनुग्रहणं कुर्वता नृसिंह रूपमाविष्कृतम् ॥ ४,१५.
Śrī Parāśara said: For the destruction of the lord of the Daityas, assuming a form that creates, sustains, and dissolves the worlds, the Lord first manifested as Narasiṃha.
तत्र च हिरण्यकशिपोर्विष्णुरयमित्येतन्न मनस्यभूत् ॥ ४,१५.
And there, the thought did not arise in Hiraṇyakaśipu's mind that this was Viṣṇu.
निरतिशयपुण्यसमुद्भूतमेतत्सत्त्वाजातमिति ॥ ४,१५.
He thought, 'This being has arisen from an unsurpassed accumulation of merit.'
रजोद्रेकप्रेरितैकाग्रमतिस्तद्भावनायोगात्ततोवाप्तवधहैतुकीं निरतिशयामेवाखिलत्रैलोक्यकारीणीं दशाननत्वे भोगसंपदमवाप ॥ ४,१५.
With a mind made one-pointed by the surge of passion, and through the practice of that contemplation, he attained, in the form of Daśānana, a state of supreme enjoyment and prosperity, which affects all the three worlds, as a result of the cause of his death.
न तु स तस्मिन्ननादिनिधने परब्रह्मभूते भगवत्यनालंबिनि कृते मनसस्तल्लयमवाप ॥ ४,१५.
But in that Lord, who is the beginningless and endless Supreme Brahman, who is unattached, his mind did not attain dissolution.
एवं दशाननत्वेप्यनङ्गपराधीनतया जानकीसमासक्तचेतसा भगवता दाशरथि रूपधारिणा हतस्य तद्रूपदर्शनमेवासीत्नायमच्युत इत्यासक्तिर्विपद्यतोन्तःकरणे मानुषबुद्धिरेव केवलमस्याभूत् ॥ ४,१५.
Thus, even in the form of Daśānana, being subject to the sway of desire and with his mind attached to Jānakī, when slain by the Lord in the form of the son of Daśaratha, his perception was only of that form; there was no attachment to the imperishable one—his inner mind was overcome by merely human understanding.
पुनरप्यच्युतविनिपातमात्रफलमखिलभूमण्डलश्लाघ्यचेदिराजकुले जन्म अव्याहतैश्वर्यं शिशुपालत्वेप्यवाप ॥ ४,१५.
Again, as the fruit of falling by the hand of the Imperishable, he was born in the illustrious royal line of Cedi, praised throughout the world, and even as Śiśupāla, he enjoyed unobstructed sovereignty.
तत्र त्वखिलानामेव स भगवन्नाम्नां त्वङ्कारकारणमभवत् ॥ ४,१५.
There, indeed, he became the cause of the utterance of all the Lord's names.
ततश्च तत्कालकृतानां तेषामशेषणामेवाच्युतनाम्नामनवरतमनेकजन्मसु वर्धितविद्वेषानुबन्धिचित्तो विनिन्दनसंतर्जनादिषूच्चारणमकरोत् ॥ ४,१५.
Then, due to the enmity accumulated over many births, ever increasing, his mind was bound to reviling and threatening the Lord's names, and he uttered them constantly in censure and anger, as was his habit from previous times.
तच्च रूपमुत्फुल्लपद्मदलामलाक्षिमत्युज्ज्वलपीतवस्त्रधार्यमलकिरिटकेयूरहारकटकादिशोभितमुदारचतुर्बाहुशङ्खचक्रगदाधरमतिप्ररूढवैरानुभावादटनभोजनस्नानासनशयनादिष्वशेषावस्थान्तरेषु नान्यत्रोपययावस्य चेतसः ॥ ४,१५.
And that form—resplendent, with eyes like fully blossomed lotus petals, adorned with brilliant yellow garments, a spotless crown, armlets, necklaces, bracelets, and so on, noble, four-armed, bearing conch, discus, and mace—because of his deeply rooted enmity, in all circumstances such as walking, eating, bathing, sitting, lying down, and others, his mind did not turn elsewhere.
ततस्तमेवाक्रोशेषूच्चारयंस्तमेव हृदयेन धारयन्नात्मवधाय यावद्भगवद्धस्तचक्रांशुमालोज्ज्वालमक्षयतेजःस्वरूपं ब्रह्मभूतमपगतद्वेषादिदोषं भगवन्तमद्राक्षीत् ॥ ४,१५.
Thus, constantly uttering His name in abuse, yet holding Him in his heart, as long as he lived, he beheld the Lord—brilliant, with rays from the discus in His hand, of inexhaustible splendor, the embodiment of Brahman, free from faults such as enmity—when the Lord appeared before him for his own destruction.
तावच्च भगवच्चक्रेणाशु व्यापादितस्तत्स्मरणदग्धाखिलाघसंचयो भगवतान्तमुपनीतस्ततस्मिन्नेव लयमुपययौ ॥ ४,१५.
Then, swiftly slain by the Lord's discus, all his accumulated sins burned away by remembrance of the Lord, he was brought to the Lord and there attained dissolution.
एतत्तवाखिलंमयाभिहितम् ॥ ४,१५.
All this I have declared to you.
अयं हि भगवान् कीर्तितश्च संस्मृतश्च द्वेषानुबन्धेनापि अखिलमुरासुरादिर्दुल्लभं फलं प्रयच्छति किमुत सम्यग्भक्तिमत्मिति ॥ ४,१५.
Indeed, when this Blessed Lord is praised or even remembered, even if with feelings of enmity, he grants all the exceedingly rare rewards that are difficult for gods and demons to obtain—how much more so for one who possesses true devotion!
वसुदेवस्य त्वानकदुन्दुभेः पौरवीरोहिणीमदिराभद्रादेवकीप्रमुखा बह्व्यः पत्न्योऽभवन् ॥ ४,१५.
Vasudeva, son of Anakadundubhi, had many wives, chief among whom were Devakī, Rohiṇī, Madirā, Bhadrā, and others.
बलभद्रशठसारणदुर्मदादीन्पुत्रार्त्नोहिण्यानकदुन्दुभिरुत्पादयामास ॥ ४,१५.
From Rohiṇī, Anakadundubhi (Vasudeva) begot sons such as Balabhadra, Śaṭha, Sāraṇa, Durmada, and others.
बलदेवोपि रेवत्यां विशठोल्मुकौ पुत्रावजनयत् ॥ ४,१५.
Baladeva also begot two sons, Viśaṭha and Ulmuka, through Revati.