SB 8.19.8

SB 8.19.8

Devanagari

तमायान्तं समालोक्य शूलपाणिं कृतान्तवत् । चिन्तयामास कालज्ञो विष्णुर्मायाविनां वर: ॥ ८ ॥

Verse text

tam āyāntaṁ samālokya śūla-pāṇiṁ kṛtāntavat cintayām āsa kāla-jṣo viṣṇur māyāvināṁ varaḥ

Synonyms

tam him (Hiraṇyakaśipu) ; āyāntam coming forward ; samālokya observing minutely ; śūla pāṇim — with a trident in his hand ; kṛtānta vat — just like death personified ; cintayām āsa thought ; kāla jṣaḥ — who knows the progress of time ; viṣṇuḥ Lord Viṣṇu ; māyāvinām of all kinds of mystics ; varaḥ the chief .

Translation

Seeing Hiraṇyakaśipu coming forward bearing a trident in his hand like personified death, Lord Viṣṇu, the best of all mystics and the knower of the progress of time, thought as follows.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Seeing Hiraṇyakaśipu coming forward, bearing a trident in his hand like personified death, Viṣṇu, the best of all mystics and the knower of the progress of time, thought as follows.