Text 35] The Lord Slays the King of the Demons 155

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 Hiranyakasipu, there was no one
to protest; no enemy came forward on behalf of Hiranyakasipu to fight
with the Lord. This means that His supremacy was immediately accepted
by the demons. Another point is that although Hiranyakasipu treated the
Lord as his bitterest enemy, he was the Lord’s faithful servant in
Vaikuntha, and therefore the Lord had no hesitation in sitting on the
throne that Hiranyakagipu had so laboriously created. Srila Vigvanatha
Cakravarti Thakura remarks in this connection that sometimes, with
great care and attention, great saintly persons and rsis offer the Lord
valuable seats dedicated with Vedic mantras and tantras, but still the
Lord does not sit upon those thrones. Hiranyakasipu, however, had for-
merly been Jaya, the doorkeeper at the Vaikuntha gate, and although he
had fallen because of the curse of the brahmanas and had gotten the
nature of a demon, and although he had never offered anything to the
Lord as Hiranyakasipu, the Lord is so affectionate to His devotee and ser-
vant that He nonetheless took pleasure in sitting on the throne that
Hiranyakasipu had created. In this regard it is to be understood that a de-
votee is fortunate in any condition of his life.

TEXT 35

rary STTTRTATat
vated etm a ae)
meTaTiCReMAT = AE!
Cot CRIED]
nisamya loka-traya-mastaka-jvaram
tam adi-daityam harina hatam mrdhe

praharsa-vegotkalitananad muhuh
prasiina-varsair vavrsuh sura-striyah

nisamya—hearing; loka-traya—of the three worlds; mastaka-
jJvaram—the headache; tam—him; ddi—the original; daityam—
