The austerity of this meditation shook the heavens, and Vishnu came down to ask Dhruva the stated desire.

冥想的严酷震动了诸天，毗奴下来问德鲁所说的愿望。

Touched, Vishnu decreed that, Dhruva could maybe become a celestial body, visible to all the world forevermore.

毗奴感动地宣布，德鲁会成为一个天体，全世界永远见。

As someone who was, I think, an ardent devotee of the god Vishnu, Dhruva refused to abide by this injustice.

我想，作为毗奴神的热心奉献者，德鲁拒绝忍受这种不公正。

'Vishnu the Preserver, and Siva the Destroyer.

‘保护者毗奴和毁灭者婆。

The oldest of these is a black rock known as Vishnu Schist.

其中最古老的是一种被称为毗奴片岩的黑色岩石。

Here's Shiva, with his wife Parvati and his trident, and here is Vishnu, sitting with his four arms, holding discus and lotus flower.

与自己的妻子雪山神女在一起，后者则端坐着，四条手臂拿着铁饼与。

Images like these, of Shiva, Vishnu and the other Hindu gods, strike us as timeless, but there was one particular moment when this way of seeing the gods began.

我们如今看到这里婆、毗奴等印度神祇的形象，仿佛亘古以来就是如此，但其实这些形象的形成，在历史上自有其起点。

But more beautiful to me thy sword with its curve of lightning like the outspread wings of the divine bird of Vishnu, perfectly poised in the angry red light of the sunset.

但是依我看来你的宝剑是更美的，那弯弯的闪光像毗奴的神鸟展开的翅翼，完美地平悬在落日怒发的红光里。

These were fervent Brahmins, the bitterest foes of Buddhism, their deities being Vishnu, the solar god, Shiva, the divine impersonation of natural forces, and Brahma, the supreme ruler of priests and legislators.

这些善男信女是佛教的死对头，他们狂热地崇信婆罗门教。婆罗门教里有三个转世活佛：第一个是回斯奴，他是太阳神的化身，第二个是希，他是生灵万物主宰的化身，第三个是卜拉马，他是一切婆罗门教教长和立法者的主宰。

As the tale goes, Holika, Hiranyakashipu's sister, attempted to burn Prahlad in a pyre, but by the grace of Vishnu, she was consumed by the flames, and Prahlad emerged unscathed.

传说中，Hiranyakashipu 的妹妹 Holika 试图用火葬火葬 Prahlad，但在 Vishnu 的恩典下，她被火焰吞噬，而 Prahlad 毫发无损。

Men are on different levels of spiritual development, and so the imagination of India has evolved the manifestations of the Absolute that are known as Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, and by a hundred other names.

人处于不同的精神发展水平， 因此印度的想象力已经演变为被称为梵天、毗奴、婆和其他一百个名字的绝对者。