Hiranyakashipu

The famous condition of the boon that makes him unkillable — not by man or beast, not by day or night, not inside or outside, not on earth or in the air, not by any weapon — is the reason Narasimha takes the form he takes and acts at the hour he acts. The treatment consulted gives 'neither man nor beast' and the pillar, and this record therefore gives those and does not enumerate the rest of the conditions.

Parentage

• parent: Kashyapa
• parent: Diti

Children

• Prahlada

Domains

• asuric kingship

Relations

• sibling: HiranyakshaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha as brothers, sons of Kashyapa and Diti. (secondary)
• slain by: NarasimhaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Narasimha record. The corpus held an avatar whose ENTIRE reason for existing is this one killing, and did not hold the man killed.Reference treatment: Prahlada was rescued from his father, the asura king Hiranyakashipu, by Narasimha, the half-man and half-lion avatar of Vishnu, who emerged from the pillar. (secondary)
• persecuted: PrahladaIn-batch, and the reason the avatar occurs.Reference treatment: Prahlada was rescued from his father, the asura king Hiranyakashipu, by Narasimha. (secondary)

Sources

• Hiranyakashipu is the asura king, son of Kashyapa and Diti and brother of Hiranyaksha, who persecutes his Vishnu-devoted son Prahlada and is killed by Narasimha when he strikes the pillar.: Reference treatments of Hiranyakashipu, of Prahlada and of the Narasimha avatar. (secondary)