sa tan-niketaṁ parimṛśya śūnyam

sa tan-niketaṁ parimṛśya śūnyam

apaśyamānaḥ kupito nanāda

kṣmāṁ dyāṁ diśaḥ khaṁ vivarān samudrān

viṣṇuṁ vicinvan na dadarśa vīraḥ

Searching for Viṣṇu and finding him absent from his house, Hiraṇyakaśipu became angry and screamed loudly. The hero searched the earth, Svarga, all directions, antarikṣa, the caves and ocean, but did not see Viṣṇu anywhere.

|| 8.19.12 ||

apaśyann iti hovāca

mayānviṣṭam idaṁ jagat

bhrātṛ-hā me gato nūnaṁ

yato nāvartate pumān

Unable to see him, Hiraṇyakaśipu said, "I have searched the entire for Viṣṇu, who has killed my brother. Therefore, he must have died."

“He has gone to the place from which no one returns” means that Viṣṇu died out of fear of Hiraṇyakaśipu. He states the Buddhist idea of liberation at death. However, the real meaning is that the Lord went to Vaikuṇṭha, from which men do not return.

|| 8.19.13 ||

vairānubandha etāvān

āmṛtyor iha dehinām

ajñāna-prabhavo manyur

ahaṁ-mānopabṛṁhitaḥ

Hiraṇyakaśipu's anger against Lord Viṣṇu persisted until his death. Other people in the bodily concept of life maintain anger only because of false conception of heroism and the influence of ignorance.

Absorption in the enemy was so strong that Hiraṇyakaśipu held this absorption till death and even against the Lord (āmṛtyoḥ has two meanings). This was caused by his great kṣatriya spirit of heroism. The anger of people in this world is not such absorption in the enemy. That anger is caused by illusion. The conception “I am a hero” in the mind, even in the absence of real heroism, makes them think of themselves as heroes, and this conception increases. However absorption in the enemy is seen only in Hiraṇyakaśipu. 

 

|| 8.19.14 ||

pitā prahrāda-putras te