Prahlada

He is the founding figure of the bhakti tradition's self-understanding — the devotee whose devotion is stronger than his birth, his father and his own safety — and one of the most widely told stories in the religion. The registry did not hold him. He is filed as 'mortal' although born an asura, because the tradition's whole interest in him is that what he is by birth is not what he is.

Parentage

• Hiranyakashipu

Domains

• devotion

Relations

• rescued by: Narasimha
• persecuted by: Hiranyakashipu

Sources

• Reference treatments of Prahlada, of Hiranyakashipu and of Narasimha.