After the manasaputras left, Vishnu came out of his room and asked about the commotion. He did not appeared perturbed in the least, and told his doorkeepers that there was nothing to be alarmed about. ‘You have a choice,’ he said. ‘Do you want to be born as my devotees for seven lives, or as my enemies for three?’ The doorkeepers chose three lives as enemies, because that would mean a shorter term of being separated from the lord. Vishnu granted them their wish, and proceeded to fight them as enemies on Earth in three separate epochs. Jaya and Vijaya became Hiranyakashyapu and Hiranyaksha in
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