तमायान्तं समालोक्य शूलपाणिं कृतान्तवत् । चिन्तयामास कालज्ञो विष्णुर्मायाविनां वर: ॥ ८ ॥
tam ayantam samalokya sula-panim krtantavat cintayam asa kala-jno visnur mayavinam varah
- tam
- him (Hiranyakasipu)
- ayantam
- coming forward
- samalokya
- observing minutely
- sula-panim
- with a trident in his hand
- krtanta-vat
- just like death personified
- cintayam asa
- thought
- kala-jnah
- who knows the progress of time
- visnuh
- Lord Visnu
- mayavinam
- of all kinds of mystics
- varah
- the chief.
Seeing Hiranyakasipu coming forward bearing a trident in his hand like personified death, Lord Visnu, the best of all mystics and the knower of the progress of time, thought as follows.