Text 36] Prahlāda, the Best Among Exalted Devotees
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evam —in this way;  ca —also;  pārṣadau —the two personal associates;  viṣṇoḥ —of Lord Viṣṇu;  putratvam —becoming the sons;  prāpitau —having gotten;  diteḥ —of Diti;  hṛdi —within the core of the heart;  sthitena —being situated;  hariṇā —by the Supreme Lord;  vaira-bhāvena —by conceiving as an enemy;  tau —both of them;  hatau —were killed.
TRANSLATION
Thus the two associates of Lord Viṣṇu who had become Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu, the sons of Diti, were both killed. By illusion they had thought that the Supreme Lord, who is situated in everyone's heart, was their enemy.
PURPORT
The discourse concerning Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva and Prahlāda Mahārāja began when Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira asked Nārada how Śiśupāla had merged into the body of Kṛṣṇa. Śiśupāla and Dantavakra were the same Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu. Here Nārada Muni is relating how in three different births the associates of Lord Viṣṇu were killed by Lord Viṣṇu Himself. First they were the demons Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu.
TEXT 36
पुनश्च विप्रशापेन राक्षसौ तौ बभूवतुः । कुम्भकर्णदशग्रीवौ हतौ तौ रामविक्रमैः ॥३६॥
punaś ca vipra-śāpena rākṣasau tau babhūvatuḥ kumbhakarṇa-daśa-grīvau hatau tau rāma-vikramaiḥ
punaḥ —again;  ca —also;  vipra-śāpena —being cursed by the  brāhmaṇas ;  rākṣasau —the two Rākṣasas;  tau —both of them;  babhūvatuḥ —incarnated as;  kumbhakarṇa-daśa-grīvau —known as Kumbhakarṇa and the ten-headed Rāvaṇa (in their next birth);  hatau —they also were killed;  tau —both of them;  rāma-vikramaiḥ —by the extraordinary strength of Lord Rāmacandra.