PLATE FOUR
When Prahlāda's teachers observed that all the students were becoming advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they approached King Hiraṇyakaśipu and described the situation. The King became extremely angry and decided to kill his son Prahlāda. Cursing him again and again, Hiraṇyakaśipu took up his sword and with great anger struct his fist against a nearby column. Then from within the pillar came a fearful sound, which appeared to crack the covering of the universe. At that time the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exhibiting the wonderful, fearsome form of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, emerged from the pillar. Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva was half man and half lion. His angry eyes resembled molten gold, His teeth were deadly, His nostrils and gaping mouth appeared like caves of a mountain, His jaws parted fearfully and His entire body touched the sky. His neck was very short and thick, His chest broad, His waist thin, and the hairs on His body as white as the rays of the moon. His arms, spread in all directions, carried His conchshell, disc, club, lotus and other weapons. The demon Hiraṇyakaśipu attacked Nṛsiṁhadeva with great force, but the Lord captured him and placed him on His lap, supporting him with His thighs. Then, in the doorway of the assembly hall, the Lord very easily tore the demon to pieces with the nails of His hand. Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva's mouth and mane were sprinkled with drops of blood, and his fierce eyes, full of anger, were impossible to look at. Licking the edge of His mouth with His tongue, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nṛsiṁhadeva, decorated with a garland of intestines taken from Hiraṇyakaśipu's abdomen, resembled a lion that has just killed an elephant. ( pp. 120-150 )