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hiraṇyakaśipu

hiraṇya—kaśipú m. a golden cushion or seat or clothing, [Br.]; [Lāṭy.]

híraṇya—kaśipu (híraṇya-), mfn. having a golden cushion or clothing, [AV.]

híraṇya—kaśipu m. N. of a Daitya king noted for impiety (he was son of Kaśyapa and Diti, and had obtained a boon from Brahmā that he should not be slain by either god or man or animal; hence he became all-powerful; when, however, his pious son Prahlāda praised Viṣṇu, that god appeared out of a pillar in the form Nara-siṃha, ‘half man, half lion’, and tore Hiraṇya-kaśipu to pieces; this was Viṣṇu's fourth Avatāra; see pra-hlāda, nara-siṃha), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.] (cf. [IW. 328]; [392 n. 2])