Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 8 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8


Sanskrit:

तमायान्तं समालोक्य शूलपाणिं कृतान्तवत् ।चिन्तयामास कालज्ञो विष्णुर्मायाविनां वर: ॥ ८ ॥

ITRANS:

tam āyāntaṁ samālokyaśūla-pāṇiṁ kṛtāntavatcintayām āsa kāla-jñoviṣṇur māyāvināṁ varaḥ

Translation:

Seeing Hiraṇyakaśipu coming forward bearing a trident in his hand like personified death, Lord Viṣṇu, the best of all mystics and the knower of the progress of time, thought as follows.

Purport: