The Ground Was Retrieved

The earth had been taken, and she was somewhere at the bottom.

Hiranyaksha

Hiranyakashipu's brother. The elder of the two sons of Kashyapa and Diti.

He had grown strong enough to be a problem for the whole world, not just for an army.

By that descent he was a brahmin rishi's son, and the gods' own half-brother. What made him an asura was not the birth. It was the nature, and the conduct he put it to.