Text 35] The Lord Slays the King of the Demons
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cellent throne of the king. Because of fear and obedience, no one could come forward to serve the Lord directly.
PURPORT
When the Lord sat on the throne of Hiraṇyakaśipu, there was no one to protest; no enemy came forward on behalf of Hiraṇyakaśipu to fight with the Lord. This means that His supremacy was immediately accepted by the demons. Another point is that although Hiraṇyakaśipu treated the Lord as his bitterest enemy, he was the Lord's faithful servant in Vaikuṇṭha, and therefore the Lord had no hesitation in sitting on the throne that Hiraṇyakaśipu had so laboriously created. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura remarks in this connection that sometimes, with great care and attention, great saintly persons and  ṛṣis  offer the Lord valuable seats dedicated with Vedic  mantras  and  tantras , but still the Lord does not sit upon those thrones. Hiraṇyakaśipu, however, had formerly been Jaya, the doorkeeper at the Vaikuṇṭha gate, and although he had fallen because of the curse of the  brāhmaṇas  and had gotten the nature of a demon, and although he had never offered anything to the Lord as Hiraṇyakaśipu, the Lord is so affectionate to His devotee and servant that He nonetheless took pleasure in sitting on the throne that Hiraṇyakaśipu had created. In this regard it is to be understood that a devotee is fortunate in any condition of his life.
TEXT 35
निशाम्य लोकत्रयमस्तकज्वरं 
    तमादिदैत्यं हरिणा हतं मृधे । 
    प्रहर्षवेगोत्कलितानना मुदुः 
    प्रसूनवर्षवर्षवृषुः सुरस्त्रियः ॥३५॥
niśāmya loka-traya-mastaka-jvaram 
    tam ādi-daityam hariṇā hatam mṛdhe 
    praharṣa-vegotkalitānanā muhuḥ 
    prasūna-varṣair vavṛṣuḥ sura-striyaḥ
niśāmya—hearing; loka-traya—of the three worlds; mastaka-jvaram—the headache; tam—him; ādi—the original; daityam—