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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 12]
TRANSLATION
The learned brāhmaṇas, who were very satisfied with the charities of the King, addressed him as the chief amongst the Purus and informed him that his son was certainly in the line of descent from the Purus.
TEXT 16
दैवेनाप्रतिधातेन शुक्ले संस्थामुपेयुषि । रातो वो ऽनुग्रहार्थाय विष्णुना प्रभविष्णुना ॥१६॥
daivenāpratighātena śukle saṁsthām upeyuṣi rāto vo'nugrahārthāya viṣṇunā prabha-viṣṇunā
daivena—by supernatural power; apratighātena—by what is irresistible; śukle—unto the pure; saṁsthām—destruction; upeyuṣi—having been enforced; rātaḥ—restored; vaḥ—for you; anugraha-arthāya—for the sake of obliging; viṣṇunā—by the all-pervasive Lord; prabha-viṣṇunā—by the all-powerful.
TRANSLATION
The brāhmaṇas said: This spotless son is restored by the all-powerful and all-pervasive Lord Viṣṇu, the Personality of Godhead, in order to oblige you. He was saved when he was doomed to be destroyed by an irresistible supernatural weapon.
PURPORT
The child Parīkṣit was saved by the all-powerful and all-pervasive Viṣṇu (Lord Kṛṣṇa) for two reasons. The first reason is that the child in the womb of his mother was spotless due to his becoming a pure devotee of the Lord. The second reason is that the child was the only surviving male descendant of Puru, the pious forefather of the virtuous King Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira. The Lord wants to continue the line of pious kings to rule over the earth as His representatives for actual progress of a peaceful and