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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 1: ****श्री ****पराशरः - ****कांसः ****तत ****उद्वर्व्नमनाः ****प्राह ****सर्वािन् ****महासुरान् | ****प्रिांर् ****केलश ****प्रमुखान् ****आहूय ****असुरपुङ्गर्वान् ****॥ ****१ *****॥ *
Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****कांस ****इतत | ****ततोद्वर्व्नेत्यार्षिः ****सस्न्धः |
***Sri Paraasharar - Kamsa, being very agitated in his mind, because he did not know what to do, he called all his other asuraas, powerful asuraas who were with him - Pralamba, Keshi, etc. and told them thus - ***
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Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 2: ****कांसः - ****हे ****प्रिांर् ****महार्ाहो ****केलशन् ****धेनुक ****पूतने | ****अररषट ****आद्याः ****तथा ****एर्व ****अन्ये ****श्रूयताां ****र्वचनां ****मम ****॥ ****२ *****॥ *
Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****हे ****प्रिांर् ****इतत | ****हे ****प्रिांर् ****इत्याहद ****युषमालभः ****अन्यैः ****च ****श्रूयताम् ****इतत ****अन्र्वयः |
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Kamsa - O Pralamba, Keshi, Dhenuka, Pootanaa, Arishta, and others, listen to what I am telling, very carefully.
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Pralamba and others, listen to what I am telling. ***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 3: ****माां ****हन्तुम् ****अमरैः ****यत्नः ****कृतः ****क्रकि ****दुरात्मलभः | ****मत् ****र्वीयितावपतान् ****र्वीरो ****न ****तु ****एतान् ****गणयालम ****अहम् ****॥ ****३ ****॥ ***All the gods, the bad ones, are making all kinds of efforts to kill me. They have been troubled with my power, and strength. I don’t care at all for them, as I am all powerful and valiant.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 4: ****क्रकम् ****इन्द्ेण ****अल्पर्वीयेण ****क्रकां ****हरेण ****एकचाररणा | ****हररणा ****र्वावप ****क्रकां ****साध्यां ****तछद्ेषर्वसुरघाततना ****॥ ****४ ****॥ ***What can Indra do, who is very weak, does not have any power. What can Rudra do, who roams alone? Even Hari, what can He do, who finds some fault and kills the demons all the time, what can He do to me? I am so powerful.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 5: ****क्रकम् ****आहदत्यैः ****क्रकां ****र्वसुलभः ****अल्पर्वीयैः ****क्रकम् ****अस््नलभः | ****क्रकां ****र्वा ****अन्यैरमरैः ****सर्वैः ****मत् ****र्ाहु ****र्ितनस्जितैः ****॥ ****५ ****॥ ***What can the Dvaadasha Aadityaas, the Ashta Vasus do? All these are weak, they don’t have any power. What can all the fires do? Even other gods, what can they do to me? They cannot even harm me. I have won over all of them with my strength and powers.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 6: ****क्रकां ****न ****दृषटो ****अमरपततः ****मया ****सांयुगमेत्य ****सः | ****पृषठेनैर्व ****र्वहन् ****र्ाणान् ****अपगच्छन् ****न ****र्वक्षसा ****॥ ****६ ****॥ ***Amarapati Indra wanted to wage a war with me, he came, and turned his back and ran away, carrying the arrows in his back itself.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 7: ****मत् ****राषरे ****र्वाररता ****र्वृस्षटः ****यदा ****शक्रेण ****क्रकां ****तदा | ****मत् ****र्ाणलभन्नैः ****जिदैः ****आपो ****अमुक्ता ****यथा ****ईस्प्सताः ****॥ ****७ *****॥ *
Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****मत् ****राषर ****इतत | ****आपोमुक्ताः ****अमुप्ता ****इतत *च्छेदः | [[46]] of 399
*** ***When Shakra, Indra, prevented rains in my land, country, at that time, I used my arrows and tore apart all the clouds, and we had rains as much as we wanted. I am so powerful, and the devaas cannot do anything to me.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 8: ****क्रकम् ****उव्यािम् ****अर्वनीपािा ****मत् ****र्ाहु ****र्िभीरर्वः | ****ते ****सर्वे ****असन्नततां ****याता ****जरासन्धमृते ****गुरुम् ****॥ ****८ *****॥ *
Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****क्रकम् ****उव्यािम् ****इतत | ****ते ****सर्वे ****सन्नततम् ****इतत ****अत्र ****असन्नततां ****इतत ****पदच्छेदः | ****न ****सर्वि ****इतत ****र्वा ****पाठः | ****गुरुां ****श्र्वशुरम् |
***All the kings on this earth, what can they do? They are already very scared of my powers. They all bow down to me, and except my father in law, Jaraasandha. ***
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Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 9: ****अमरेर्षु ****ममार्वज्ञा ****जायते ****दैत्यपुङ्गर्वाः | ****हास्यां ****मे ****जायते ****र्वीराः ****तेर्षु ****यत्नपरेर्षु ****अवप ****॥ ****९ ****॥ ***I just don’t care of the gods, I neglect all the gods, O daityaas. I laugh at all the efforts that they are making. Whatever efforts they are putting, looking at that, I laugh at them. What they are doing is laughable.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 10: ****तथा ****अवप ****खिु ****दुषटानाां ****तेर्षाम् ****अवप ****अथधकां ****मया | ****अपकाराय ****दैत्येन्द्ा ****यतनीयां ****दुरात्मनाम् ****॥ ****१० ****॥ ***Even then, because they are all bad people, we have to put some effort to trouble, harm them. We have to put effort to trouble them.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 11: ****तत् ****ये ****यशस्स्र्वनः ****केथचत् ****पृथथव्याां ****ये ****च ****यज्र्वनः | ****कायो ****देर्व ****अपकाराय ****तेर्षाां ****सर्वाित्मना ****र्वधः ****॥ ****११ *****॥ *
Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****तत् ****इतत | ****यज्र्वनः *****यज्र्वानः *, ****दीघिभार्व ****आर्षिः | ****वर्वद्यास्न्नरन्ना ****देर्वा ****नङ्क्ष्यस्न्त ****इतत ****देर्वापकारः |
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In order to ridicule all the gods, we have to kill all those who are very successful, those who are performing yaaga, in this world. ***
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Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 12: ****उत्पन्नः ****च ****अवप ****मे ****मृत्युः ****भूतपूर्विस्स ****र्वै ****क्रकि | ****इतत ****एतत् ****दाररका ****प्राह ****देर्वक गभिसांभर्वा ****॥ ****१२ ****॥ ***And the child which was born to Devaki, that one who is going to kill me, is already born; and even earlier, he had killed me. He is now born again is what the child told me.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 13: ****तस्मात् ****र्ािेर्षु ****च ****पुरो ****यत्नः ****कायो ****महीतिे | ****यत्र ****उहद्क्तां ****र्िां ****र्ािे ****स ****हन्तव्यः ****प्रयत्नतः ****॥ ****१३ ****॥ ***So, we have to have an eye on all the children also, and wherever you see some child having some extraordinary powers, you have to kill that child also.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 14: ****इतत ****आज्ञाप्य ****असुरान् ****कांसः ****प्रवर्वश्याशु ****गृहां ****ततः | ****मुमोच ****र्वसुदेर्वां ****च ****देर्वक ां ****च ****तनरोधतः ****॥ ****१४ ****॥ ***Having ordered all the demons who were there with him, he quickly entered into his house, and he freed Vasudeva and Devaki from imprisonment.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 15: ****कांस ****उर्वाच - ****युर्वयोः ****घाततता ****गभाि ****र्वृथैर्वैते ****मया ****अधुना | ****को ****अवप ****अन्य ****एर्व ****नाशाय ****मम ****गभिः ****समुद्यतः ****॥ ****१५ ****॥ ***Kamsa continued - I have troubled you unnecessarily, and this has served no purpose. I have killed all your children. Someone else, I don’t know who, is already born in order to kill me.
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***Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 16: ****तत् ****अिां ****पररतापेन ****नूनां ****तत् ****भावर्वनो ****हह ****ते | ****अभिका ****युर्वयोः ****दोर्षात् ****च ****आयुर्षो ****यत् ****वर्वयोस्जताः ****॥ ****१६ *****॥ *
Sri Engal Aalwaan’s Commentary: ****तत् ****अिां ****इतत | ****तत् ****भावर्वनः ****भवर्वतव्यतादृशमरणाः |
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Don’t feel bad because all your children were destined to die like that. They had some defect, and because of their karmaas, they were destined to be killed like that. ***
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Sri Vishnu Puraana, Amsha 5, Chapter 4, Shloka 17: ****श्री ****पराशरः - ****इतत ****आश्र्वास्य ****वर्वमुक्त्र्वा ****च ****कांसः ****तौ ****पररशङ्क्रकतः | ****अन्तगृिहां ****द्वर्वजश्रेषठ ****प्रवर्वर्वेश ****ततः ****स्र्वकम् ****॥ ****१७ ****॥ ***Sri Paraasharar - Having told them like that, and still having doubts about who is born to kill him, he was always troubled in his mind, he entered into his house after that.
This completes Chapter Four.
॥* इति श्री विष्णु पुराणे पञ्चमे अंशे चिुथो अध्यायः ॥ ** ॥ इति श्री विष्णु पुराण व्याख्याने श्री विष्णु चचत्तीये पञ्चमे अंशे चिुथो अध्यायः ॥ *
We just saw Chapter 4 of Amsha 5, where Kamsa recalls the words of Durgaa that the person who kills him is already born, so he calls all the *asuraas Pralamba, *Dhenuka, Keshi, Pootanaa, and others, and tells them to be cautions and watch out, and says that he is not scared of Indra or Hari. He is so arrogant with his powers that nobody can do any harm to him. He says that even then, we have to be very careful and cautious, because the gods are always trying to kill him. Any child, if seen with extraordinary powers, just kill that child, he instructs them. Then he frees Devaki and Vasudeva and then retires. The story of Krishna continues now, the Krishnaavataara.
*॥ ****अथ ****पञ्चमो ****अध्यायः *****॥ *
Nandagopa’s Prayer to Lord Naaraayana ***
Now, Chapter Five.