Prahlāda was a daitya king, the son of Hiranyakashipu, and the father of Virochana. He is often described as a saintly boy from the Puranas known for his piety and bhakti to Vishnu. Despite the abusive nature of his father, Hiranyakashipu, he continued his devotion towards Vishnu. He is considered to be a mahājana, or great devotee, by followers of Vaishnava traditions and is of special importance to devotees of the avatār Narasiṁha. A treatise is accredited to him in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa in which Prahlāda describes the process of loving worship to his lord, Vishnu. The majority of stories in the Puranas are based on the activities of Prahlāda as a young boy, and he is usually depicted as such in paintings and illustrations.
Prahlāda was born to Kayadu and Hiranyakashipu, an evil daitya king who had been granted a boon that he could not be killed of anything born from a living womb, neither be killed by a man nor an animal, neither during the day nor at night, neither indoors nor outdoors, neither on land, nor in the air nor in water and of no man made weapon! After the killing of his father, he took his father's kingdom and ruled peacefully. He was known for his generosity and kindness. He sowed similar seeds in his son Virochana and grandson Mahabali.
Prahlada is a 1941 Indian Malayalam film, directed by K Subramaniam and produced by Madras United Artist Corporation. The film stars T. K. Balachandran, N. P. Chellappan Nair and Guru Gopinath in lead roles. The film had musical score by Vidwan VS Parthasarathy Ayyankar. The movie is the remake of Prahalada a Tamil film released in 1939. It is the first mythological film in Malayalam. It is debut Malayalam film of director-producer K. Subramaniam, T. K. Balachandran and music director V. S. Parthasarathy Iyengar. It was also the debut film of Guru Gopinath and Thankamani Gopinath.
Prahlada is an Indian missile scientist, former vice chancellor of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology and a former director of Defence Research and Development Laboratory, the largest of the Defence Research and Development Organization laboratories in India, known for his contributions to Indian space programme. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
Prahlada was born on 5 February 1947 in Bengaluru, the capital of the South Indian state of Karnataka. He graduated in mechanical engineering from University College of Engineering, Bangalore University in 1969 and obtained a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, with rockets and missile systems as the major. He pursued his research at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad from where he secured a doctoral degree (PhD). He started his career with the Government of India in 1971 and has served several space and defence organizations such as Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram and Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Bengaluru before joining Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad as its director in 1997, a post he held till 2005. During this period, he also served as the chairman of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGDMP).
Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armour coming saying something about
a queen
There were peasants singing and drummers drumming and the archer split
the tree
There was a fanfare blowing to the sun that was floating on the breeze
Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen-seventies
I was lying in a burned out basement with a full moon in my eyes
I was hoping for a replacement when the sun burst through the skies
There was a band playing in my head and I felt like getting high
I was thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie
Thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie
Well I dreamed i saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of
the sun
There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen one
All in a dream, all in a dream the loading had begun
They were flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun
Flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun