Pātra No. 11
The boy from the Holi story.
“Of Daityas, I am Prahlāda…”
Prahlāda is the boy from the Holi story, born among the Daityas, who never stopped believing. Kṛṣṇa names him: of the Daityas, I am Prahlāda.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
प्रह्लादश्चास्मि दैत्यानां कालः कलयतामहम्।
मृगाणां च मृगेन्द्रोऽहं वैनतेयश्च पक्षिणाम्।।
prahlādaś cāsmi daityānāṁ kālaḥ kalayatām aham mṛgāṇāṁ ca mṛgendro ’haṁ vainateyaś ca pakṣiṇām
Of Daityas, I am Prahlada; of reckoners, I am Death; of beasts, I am the lion; and of birds, I am Garuda, the son of Vinata.
10.30 is verse 402 of 700, and verse 30 of 42 in chapter 10.
Prahlāda, in any form, appears in exactly one verse of the 700, 10.30.
Daitya (the race he is named among), in any form, appears in exactly one verse of the 700, 10.30.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
10.30 names four things Kṛṣṇa is: of the Daityas, Prahlāda; of reckoners, Death; of beasts, the lion; and of birds, Garuḍa, the son of Vinatā. The line comes in the middle of the list in chapter 10, after 10.29 has named Ananta, Varuṇa, Aryamā and Yama, and before 10.31 moves on to the wind, Rāma, Makara and the Ganga. The story presents Prahlāda as the boy of the Holi tale, born among the Daityas, who never stopped believing. The verse itself says only that among the Daityas, he is Prahlāda: of all that race, this is the one it names. The list works the same way line after line, holding up one name as the finest of its kind. See chapter 10 and what the Gītā says about devotion.