Verse 19

¹⁵Having said this much to the brahmin, the great-minded boy stopped. Then that king's servant, angry and dismayed, turned on him and threatened him. ¹⁶Bring the cane, someone. This one makes a bad name for us. For this coal of the family, this ill-minded boy, the fourth means of correction is what is laid down. ¹⁷In the sandal grove of the sons of Diti this thorn tree has come up. The boy has made himself a handle for Visnu, the axe that tears our root out of the ground. ¹⁸So, frightening him by one means and another, by threats and the rest of it, he made Prahlada take up the securing of the three ends: dharma, wealth and desire.

¹⁹Then the teacher, judging that he had learned the fourfold that is to be known, showed him to the lord of the Daityas, washed by his mother and dressed in his ornaments.