Vishnu Purana — Amsha 4 — Chapter 15

ViP 4 15.1

हिरण्यकशिपुत्वे च रावणत्वे च विष्णुना अवाप निहतो भोगान् अप्राप्यान् अमरैर् अपि ॥

hiraṇyakaśiputve ca rāvaṇatve ca viṣṇunā avāpa nihato bhogān aprāpyān amarair api //

Both in his existence as Hiraṇyakaśipu and in his existence as Rāvaṇa, though slain by Viṣṇu, he obtained enjoyments unattainable even by the immortals.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

ViP 4 15.2

न लयं तत्र तेनैव निहतः स कथं पुनः संप्राप्तः शिशुपालत्वे सायुज्यं शाश्वते हरौ ॥

na layaṃ tatra tenaiva nihataḥ sa kathaṃ punaḥ saṃprāptaḥ śiśupālatve sāyujyaṃ śāśvate harau //

There (he attained) no dissolution; slain by that very (Viṣṇu), how did he again, in his existence as Śiśupāla, attain union with the eternal Hari?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

ViP 4 15.3

एतद् इच्छाम्य् अहं श्रोतुं सर्वधर्मभृतां वर कौतूहलपरेणैतत् पृष्टो मे वक्तुम् अर्हसि ॥

etad icchāmy ahaṃ śrotuṃ sarvadharmabhṛtāṃ vara kautūhalapareṇaitat pṛṣṭo me vaktum arhasi //

This I wish to hear, O best of all upholders of dharma; asked by me, who am full of curiosity, you ought to tell it.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

ViP 4 15.21

तिस्रः कोट्यः सहस्राणाम् अष्टाशीतिशतानि च कुमाराणां गृहाचार्याश् चापयोग्यासु ये रताः ॥

tisraḥ koṭyaḥ sahasrāṇām aṣṭāśītiśatāni ca kumārāṇāṃ gṛhācāryāś cāpayogyāsu ye ratāḥ //

Three crores of thousands and eighty-eight hundreds — (that was the number) of the youths, and of the household teachers who were devoted to unsuitable women.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

ViP 4 15.22

संख्यानं यादवानां कः करिष्यति महात्मनाम् यत्रायुतानाम् अयुतं लक्षेणास्ते सदाहुकः ॥

saṃkhyānaṃ yādavānāṃ kaḥ kariṣyati mahātmanām yatrāyutānām ayutaṃ lakṣeṇāste sadāhukaḥ //

Who will make a count of the great-souled Yādavas, among whom Āhuka always abides with a lakh of ten thousand times ten thousand (retainers)?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

ViP 4 15.23

देवासुरहता ये तु दैतेयाः सुमहाबलाः ते चोत्पन्ना मनुष्येषु जनोपद्रवकारिणः ॥

devāsurahatā ye tu daiteyāḥ sumahābalāḥ te cotpannā manuṣyeṣu janopadravakāriṇaḥ //

But those Daiteyas of very great strength who had been slain in the war of gods and demons — they too were born among men, working affliction upon the people.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

ViP 4 15.24

तेषाम् उत्सादनार्थाय भुवि देवा यदोः कुले अवतीर्णाः कुलशतं यत्रैकाभ्यधिकं द्विज ॥

teṣām utsādanārthāya bhuvi devā yadoḥ kule avatīrṇāḥ kulaśataṃ yatraikābhyadhikaṃ dvija //

For the destruction of them the gods descended on earth into the family of Yadu, wherein there were a hundred and one families, O twice-born one.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

ViP 4 15.25

विष्णुस् तेषां प्रमाणे च प्रभुत्वे च व्यवस्थितः निदेशस्थायिनस् तस्य बभूवुः सर्वयादवाः ॥

viṣṇus teṣāṃ pramāṇe ca prabhutve ca vyavasthitaḥ nideśasthāyinas tasya babhūvuḥ sarvayādavāḥ //

Viṣṇu was established among them as their standard and their lord; all the Yādavas abided by his command.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

ViP 4 15.26

प्रसूतिं वृष्णिवीराणां यः शृणोति नरः सदा स सर्वैः पातकैर् मुक्तो विष्णुलोकं प्रपद्यते ॥

prasūtiṃ vṛṣṇivīrāṇāṃ yaḥ śṛṇoti naraḥ sadā sa sarvaiḥ pātakair mukto viṣṇulokaṃ prapadyate //

The man who constantly hears the progeny of the Vṛṣṇi heroes is freed from all sins and goes to the world of Viṣṇu.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition