Devanagari
तमायान्तं समालोक्य शूलपाणिं कृतान्तवत् ।
चिन्तयामास कालज्ञो विष्णुर्मायाविनां वर: ॥ ८ ॥
Verse text
tam āyāntaṁ samālokya
śūla-pāṇiṁ kṛtāntavat
cintayām āsa kāla-jño
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.