Prahlada
Hindu · mortal · satya yuga · Recorded classification
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
- parent: Hiranyakashipu
Domains
- devotion
Relations
- rescued by: NarasimhaNon-symmetric. He is the reason the avatar comes, so the edge is as load-bearing as his father's.Reference treatment: Prahlada was rescued from his father by Narasimha, the half-man and half-lion avatar of Vishnu. (secondary)
- persecuted by: HiranyakashipuReciprocal of the in-batch edge on his father's record.Reference treatment of Prahlada's rescue from his father the asura king. (secondary)
Sources
- Prahlada is the Vishnu-devoted son of the asura king Hiranyakashipu, whose answer about the pillar brings Narasimha out of it and who is rescued by him.: Reference treatments of Prahlada, of Hiranyakashipu and of Narasimha. (secondary)