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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 17]
depressed;  sa-sādhvasāḥ —with fear;  ahanyamānāḥ —not being hit;  api-even ;  tasya —his;  varcasā —by splendor;  pradharṣitāḥ —stricken;  dūrataram —far away;  pradudruvuḥ —they ran fast.
TRANSLATION
On his entering the ocean, the aquatic animals who formed the host of Varuṇa were stricken with fear and ran far away. Thus Hiraṇyākṣa showed his splendor without dealing a blow.
PURPORT
Materialistic demons sometimes appear to be very powerful and are seen to establish their supremacy throughout the world. Here also it appears that Hiraṇyākṣa, by his demoniac strength, actually established his supremacy throughout the universe, and the demigods were afraid of his uncommon power. Not only were the demigods in space afraid of the demons Hiraṇyakaśipu and Hiraṇyākṣa, but so also were the aquatic animals within the sea.
TEXT 26
स वर्षपूगानुदधौ महाबल- 
    श्ररन्महोर्मीञ्छ्वसनेरितान्मुहुः । 
    मौर्व्यामिजघ्ने गदया विभावरी- 
    मासेदिवांस्तात पुरीं प्रचेतसः ॥२६॥
sa varṣa-pūgān udadhau mahā-balaś 
    caran mahormīn chvasaneritān muhuḥ 
    maurvyābhijaghne gadayā vibhāvarīm 
    āsedivāṁs tāta purīṁ pracetasaḥ
saḥ—he; varṣa-pūgān—for many years; udadhau—in the ocean; mahā-balaḥ—mighty; caran—moving; mahā-ūrmīn—gigantic waves; śvasana—by the wind; īritān—tossed; muhuḥ—again and again; maurvyā—iron; abhijaghne—he struck; gadayā—with his mace; vibhāvarīm—Vibhāvarī; āsedivān—reached; tāta—O dear Vidura; purīm—the capital; pracetasaḥ—of Varuṇa.
TRANSLATION
Moving about in the ocean for many, many years, the mighty Hiraṇyākṣa smote the gigantic wind-tossed waves again and again with his iron mace and reached Vibhāvarī, the capital of Varuṇa.