hiraṛyakaṣipu | हिरऋयकषिपु | hiraRyakaSipu
hiraṛya—kaṣipu/ | हिरऋय—कषिपु/ | m. a golden cushion or seat or clothing, Br.; Lāṭy.
hi/raṛya—kaṣipu | हि/रऋय—कषिपु | (hi/raṛya- | हि/रऋय- |), mfn. having a g˚ cushion or clothing, AV.
hi/raṛya—kaṣipu | हि/रऋय—कषिपु | m. N. of a Daitya king noted for impiety (he was son of Kaśyapa and Diti, and had obtained a boon from Brahmā that he should not be slain by either god or man or animal; hence he became all-powerful; when, however, his pious son Prahlāda praised Viṣṇu, that god appeared out of a pillar in the form Nara-siṃha, ‘half man, half lion’, and tore Hiraṇya-kaśipu to pieces; this was Viṣṇu's fourth Avatāra; see pra-hlāda | प्र-ह्लाद |, nara-siṃha | नर-सिंह |), MBh.; Hariv.; Pur. (cf. IW. 328; 392 n. 2)
hi/raṛya—kaṣipu | हि/रऋय—कषिपु | (hi/raṛya- | हि/रऋय- |), mfn. having a g˚ cushion or clothing, AV.
hi/raṛya—kaṣipu | हि/रऋय—कषिपु | m. N. of a Daitya king noted for impiety (he was son of Kaśyapa and Diti, and had obtained a boon from Brahmā that he should not be slain by either god or man or animal; hence he became all-powerful; when, however, his pious son Prahlāda praised Viṣṇu, that god appeared out of a pillar in the form Nara-siṃha, ‘half man, half lion’, and tore Hiraṇya-kaśipu to pieces; this was Viṣṇu's fourth Avatāra; see pra-hlāda | प्र-ह्लाद |, nara-siṃha | नर-सिंह |), MBh.; Hariv.; Pur. (cf. IW. 328; 392 n. 2)