Chapter 38 - The Asuras are Filled with Surprise at Seeing the Man-lion Form

1-15. Vaishampayana said:—O Bharata, thereupon when Hiranyakashipu and all the Danavas saw that mighty-armed one like unto the wheel of time and fire covered with ashes, the beauty, of that man-lion form covered with matted wells and effulgent like the moon, filled every where of that spacious Hall. Seeing that form resembling a conch-shell, a kunda flower and the moon the Danavas exclaimed "What a wonderful form!" With their celestial vision however Hiranyakashipu and Pralhada could perceive that the Lord, in the shape of a lion, had come there. Pralhada said:—"O large-armed king, the first born amongst the Daityas, we have never seen a man-lion form, nor have we heard of it. How wonderful is this celestial form! My mind says that this dreadful form has appeared for the destruction of the Daityas. The gods, oceans, rivers, Himavan, and other boundary mountains, the moon with the stars, the Adityas, Ashvinis, Varuna, Yama, Indra, Maruts, Rishis, Nagas, Yakshas, Gandharvas, Pishachas and dreadful Rakshasas are all in his body. Brahma and the Lord Siva appear on his forehead. The mobile and immobile creation, all the Daitayas together with ourselves, this assembly hall, the three worlds, all are visible in him as the moon reflected on a mirror".