Devanagari
नखाङ्कुरोत्पाटितहृत्सरोरुहं
विसृज्य तस्यानुचरानुदायुधान् ।
अहन् समस्तान्नखशस्त्रपाणिभि-
र्दोर्दण्डयूथोऽनुपथान् सहस्रश: ॥ ३१ ॥
Verse text
nakhāṅkurotpāṭita-hṛt-saroruhaṁ
visṛjya tasyānucarān udāyudhān
ahan samastān nakha-śastra-pāṇibhir
dordaṇḍa-yūtho ’nupathān sahasraśaḥ
Synonyms
nakha
—
aṅkura — by the pointed nails
;
utpāṭita
—
torn out
;
hṛt
—
saroruham — whose heart, which was like a lotus flower
;
visṛjya
—
leaving aside
;
tasya
—
of him
;
anucarān
—
the followers (soldiers and bodyguards)
;
udāyudhān
—
having raised weapons
;
ahan
—
He killed
;
samastān
—
all
;
nakha
—
śastra — pāṇibhiḥ — with His nails and other weapons in His hands
;
dordaṇḍa
—
yūthaḥ — having unlimited arms
;
anupathān
—
the attendants of Hiraṇyakaśipu
;
sahasraśaḥ
—
by thousands .
Translation
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had many, many arms, first uprooted Hiraṇyakaśipu’s heart and then threw him aside and turned toward the demon’s soldiers. These soldiers had come in thousands to fight with Him with raised weapons and were very faithful followers of Hiraṇyakaśipu, but Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva killed all of them merely with the ends of His nails.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Leaving aside the demon whose heart was uprooted by his nails, the Lord, armed with his phalanxes of arms, killed his all followers by the thousands, using his nails and weapons.
Hiraṇyakaśipu’s lotus heart was uprooted by the buds of the Lord’s nails. The Lord thought “I was living happily in his heart, but how did this unfortunate person make anger and hatred live there as well?” He pulled out his heart as if to inspect it. He used the buds of his nails in order not to damage the lotus of his heart. The Lord had groups of arms. Anupathān means followers.
Purport
Since the creation of the material world, there have been two kinds of men — the
devas
and the
asuras.
The
devas
are always faithful to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whereas the
asuras
are always atheists who defy the supremacy of the Lord. At the present moment, throughout the entire world, the atheists are extremely numerous. They are trying to prove that there is no God and that everything takes place due to combinations and permutations of material elements. Thus the material world is becoming more and more godless, and consequently everything is in a disturbed condition. If this continues, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will certainly take action, as He did in the case of Hiraṇyakaśipu. Within a second, Hiraṇyakaśipu and his followers were destroyed, and similarly if this godless civilization continues, it will be destroyed in a second, simply by the movement of one finger of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The demons should therefore be careful and curtail their godless civilization. They should take advantage of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and become faithful to the Supreme Personality of Godhead; otherwise they are doomed. As Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed in a second, the godless civilization can be destroyed at any moment.