🪷 ŚB 7.5.2

standalone verse · received passage 2 · Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, translation

Sanskrit

तौ राज्ञा प्रापितं बालं प्रह्लादं नयकोविदम् । पाठयामासतु: पाठ्यानन्यांश्चासुरबालकान् ॥ २ ॥

Transliteration

tau rājñā prāpitaṁ bālaṁ prahlādaṁ naya-kovidam pāṭhayām āsatuḥ pāṭhyān anyāṁś cāsura-bālakān
Synonyms
tau — those two (Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka); rājñā — by the King; prāpitam — sent; bālam — the boy; prahlādam — named Prahlāda; naya-kovidam — who was aware of moral principles; pāṭhayām āsatuḥ — instructed; pāṭhyān — books of material knowledge; anyān — other; ca — also; asura-bālakān — sons of the asuras..

Translation

Prahlāda Mahārāja was already educated in devotional life, but when his father sent him to those two sons of Śukrācārya to be educated, they accepted him at their school along with the other sons of the asuras.

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