After tolerating abuse from Hiranyakashipu, Prahlāda is eventually saved by Narasiṁha, Vishnu in the form of a man-lion chimera, who emerges from within a stone pillar, who places the king on his thighs, and kills him with his sharp nails at the entrance to his home at dusk, thus nullifying all of Hiranyakashipu's boon of virtual immortality.