SB 3.14.2 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

विदुर उवाच तेनैव तु मुनिश्रेष्ठ हरिणा यज्ञमूर्तिना । आदिदैत्यो हिरण्याक्षो हत इत्यनुशुश्रुम ॥ २ ॥

Verse text

vidura uvāca tenaiva tu muni-śreṣṭha hariṇā yajṣa-mūrtinā ādi-daityo hiraṇyākṣo hata ity anuśuśruma

Synonyms

viduraḥ uvāca — Śrī Vidura said ; tena — by Him ; eva — certainly ; tu — but ; muni — śreṣṭha — O chief among the sages ; hariṇā — by the Personality of Godhead ; yajṣa — mūrtinā — the form of sacrifices ; ādi — original ; daityaḥ — demon ; hiraṇyākṣaḥ — by the name Hiraṇyākṣa ; hataḥ — slain ; iti — thus ; anuśuśruma — heard in succession .

Translation

Śrī Vidura said: O chief amongst the great sages, I have heard by disciplic succession that Hiraṇyākṣa, the original demon, was slain by the same form of sacrifices, the Personality of Godhead [Lord Boar].

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Vidura said: O best of the sages! We have heard that Hiranyāksa, the original demon, was killed by Varāha, the form of sacrifice. It should be understood that in Svāyambhuva-manvantara Varāha lifted the earth, and in Cākṣuṣa-manvantara Varāha killed Hiraṇyakṣa.

Purport

As referred to previously, the boar incarnation was manifested in two millenniums, namely Svāyambhuva and Cākṣuṣa. In both millenniums there was a boar incarnation of the Lord, but in the Svāyambhuva millennium He lifted the earth from within the water of the universe, whereas in the Cākṣuṣa millennium He killed the first demon, Hiraṇyākṣa. In the Svāyambhuva millennium He assumed the color white, and in the Cākṣuṣa millennium He assumed the color red. Vidura had already heard about one of them, and he proposed to hear about the other. The two different boar incarnations described are the one Supreme Personality of Godhead.