Text 48] The Lord Slays the King of the Demons 169
TRANSLATION
The inhabitants of Nagaloka said: The most sinful
HiranyakaSipu took away all the jewels on our hoods and all our
beautiful wives. Now, since his chest has been pierced by Your
nails, You are the source of all pleasure to our wives. Thus we
together offer our respectful obeisances unto You.
PURPORT
No one is peaceful if his wealth and wife are forcibly taken away. All
the inhabitants of Nagaloka, which is situated below the earthly plan-
etary system, were in great anxiety because their wealth had been stolen
and their wives kidnapped by Hiranyakasipu. Now, Hiranyakasipu hav-
ing been killed, their wealth and wives were returned, and their wives
felt satisfied. The inhabitants of various lokas, or planets, offered their
respectful obeisances unto the Lord because they were relieved by the
death of Hiranyakasipu. Disturbances similar to those created by
Hiranyakasipu are now taking place all over the world because of
demoniac governments. As stated in the Twelfth Canto of Srimad-
Bhagavatam, the men of the governments of Kali-yuga will be no better
than rogues and plunderers. Thus the populace will be harassed on one
side by scarcity of food and on another by heavy taxation by the govern-
ment. In other words, the people in most parts of the world in this age
are harassed by the ruling principles of Hiranyakasipu.
TEXT 48
HTT Fe
wat TH aa fazaaatton
fefera aa aftaraaa: |
WAN AT: T TET: Tat
mean a feagarts fag Uecll
§ri-manava ticuh
manavo vayam tava nidesa-karino
ditijena deva paribhiita-setavah
