Bhagavatapurana 3.13: atha trayodaśo'dhyāyaḥ

3.13.1

/0 śrī-śuka uvāca
niśamya vācaṃ vadato muneḥ puṇyatamāṃ nṛpa /
bhūyaḥ papraccha kauravyo vāsudeva-kathādṛtaḥ //

Śrī Śuka said:
Having heard the most holy speech spoken by the sage, O king,
the descendant of Kuru, devoted to narrations of Vāsudeva, questioned him further.

1. Sri Suka said:—Having listened, O King, to the sacred discourse of the sage (Maitreya), Vidura made further enquiry, (his mind) being taken up with the stories of Hari.

3.13.2

/0 vidura uvāca
sa vai svāyambhuvaḥ samrāṭ priyaḥ putraḥ svayambhuvaḥ /
pratilabhya priyāṃ patnīṃ kiṃ cakāra tato mune //

Vidura said:
That Svāyambhuva, the sovereign and beloved son of Svayambhū,
having obtained his dear wife, what did he do then, O sage?

2. Vidura said: O sage, that Swayambhuva Manu, the Emperor, was indeed the beloved son of Brahma; what did he do after he obtained his beloved wife?

3.13.3

caritaṃ tasya rājarṣer ādi-rājasya sattama /
brūhi me śraddadhānāya viṣvaksenāśrayo hy asau //

Tell me, who am full of faith, the deeds of that royal sage,
the first king, O best of men; for he took refuge in Viṣvaksena.

3. O wisest sage, Be pleased to tell me of the life of the saintly King, the first Ruler of the world—to me who am full of faith; for he was really one devoted to Vishvaksena (Vishnu).

3.13.4

śrutasya puṃsāṃ sucira-śramasya nanv añjasā sūribhir īḍito 'rthaḥ /
tat-tad-guṇānuśravaṇaṃ mukunda- pādāravindaṃ hṛdayeṣu yeṣām //

Indeed, the goal of men's hearing, practiced with long labor, is readily praised by the wise
as the hearing of the qualities of Him whose lotus feet are Mukunda's, in whose hearts they dwell.

4. The fruit, commended by the wise, of the study made by men with great exertions over long years consists in this—that they come to listen to the excellent merits of those (devotees) in whose heart the lotus-like feet of Mukunda are enthroned.

3.13.5

/0 śrī-śuka uvāca
iti bruvāṇaṃ viduraṃ vinītaṃ sahasra-śīrṣṇaś caraṇopadhānam /
prahṛṣṭa-romā bhagavat-kathāyāṃ praṇīyamāno munir abhyacaṣṭa //

Śrī Śuka said:
To Vidura who spoke thus with humility, a pillow for the feet of the thousand-headed Lord,
the sage, with hairs standing on end as he was drawn into narrations of the Lord, replied.

5. Sri Suka said:—To Vidura who was modest and spoke thus and in whom the feet of Sri Krishna were enshrined, the sage Maitreya who was led on to the narration of the stories of the Supreme Being said as follows, with his hair standing on end.

3.13.6

/0 maitreya uvāca
yadā sva-bhāryayā sārdhaṃ jātaḥ svāyambhuvo manuḥ /
prāñjaliḥ praṇataś cedaṃ veda-garbham abhāṣata //

Maitreya said:
When Svāyambhuva Manu was born together with his wife,
he bowed with folded hands and spoke this to the one who holds the Veda in his womb:

6. Maitreya, said:—“When Swayambuva Manu was born along with his wife, he folded his hands in reverence and bowed and said to Vedagarbha (Brahma) as follows:—

3.13.7

tvam ekaḥ sarva-bhūtānāṃ janma-kṛd vṛttidaḥ pitā /
tathāpi naḥ prajānāṃ te śuśrūṣā kena vā bhavet //

“You alone are the progenitor, the giver of livelihood, and the father of all beings;
yet by what [service] may there be service to you from us, your offspring?”

7. Thou art the one father of all creatures; thou givest birth to them and providest them with the means of subsistence: still let us know by what means or in what way we can be of service to thee; (let us know how we should serve thee).

3.13.8

tad vidhehi namas tubhyaṃ karmasv īḍyātma-śaktiṣu /
yat kṛtveha yaśo viṣvag amutra ca bhaved gatiḥ //

[Vidura said:]
“Therefore ordain for me, who offer reverence to you, those works worthy of praise through one's own faculties,
by performing which renown is won everywhere in this world, and a higher destination in the next.”

8. O, Praiseworthy one, from among the duties which we can do, may you be pleased to point out that by adopting which we may obtain fame everywhere and success in this as well as in the other world.

3.13.9

/0 brahmovāca
prītas tubhyam ahaṃ tāta svasti stād vāṃ kṣitīśvara /
yan nirvyalīkena hṛdā śādhi mety ātmanārpitam //

Brahmā said:
“I am pleased with you, dear one; may there be welfare for you both, O lord of the earth,
since you surrendered yourself with a sincere heart, saying, ‘Direct me!’

9. Brahma said:—O, lord of the earth, hail to you both; I am pleased with you, my son, since you have with a sincere heart said of your own accord, ‘Bid me, O father.’

3.13.10

etāvaty ātmajair vīra kāryā hy apacitir gurau /
śaktyāpramattair gṛhyeta sādaraṃ gata-matsaraiḥ //

This much respect should indeed be shown to a father by his sons, O hero;
his command should be accepted with devotion and without envy, according to one's capability and without negligence.”

10. O, heroic son, it is this worship that a son ought to do to his father, that, according to his might, he respectfully receives his command without an inclination to neglect or to question it.

3.13.11

sa tvam asyām apatyāni sadṛśāny ātmano guṇaiḥ /
utpādya śāsa dharmeṇa gāṃ yajñaiḥ puruṣaṃ yaja //

Therefore, having begotten in her offspring equal to yourself in virtues, / rule the earth in accordance with dharma, and worship the Supreme Person through sacrifices.

11. Do thou beget on her children like unto thee in qualities; rule the earth in righteous ways and worship the Perfect Being by means of *yagnas* (Sacrifices).

3.13.12

paraṃ śuśrūṣaṇaṃ mahyaṃ syāt prajā-rakṣayā nṛpa /
bhagavāṃs te prajā-bhartur hṛṣīkeśo 'nutuṣyati //

By protecting your subjects, O king, the highest service will be rendered to me; / and the Lord, Hṛṣīkeśa, will be pleased with you as protector of the people.

12. O king, great will be the service done unto me by thy act of protecting the people on earth. The glorious Lord Hrishikesa will certainly be pleased with thee for being the protector of people.

3.13.13

yeṣāṃ na tuṣṭo bhagavān yajña-liṅgo janārdanaḥ /
teṣāṃ śramo hy apārthāya yad ātmā nādṛtaḥ svayam //

For those with whom the Lord Janārdana, whose symbol is sacrifice, is not pleased, / their toil is indeed in vain, since the self itself has not been honored.

13. Empty of purpose will be the labour of those with whom the Almighty Janardana, who is in the form of Yagnas, is

not pleased; for the very Atman (Self) becomes neglected (if they do not secure His grace by what they do.)

3.13.14

/0 manur uvāca
ādeśe 'haṃ bhagavato varteyāmīva-sūdana /
sthānaṃ tv ihānujānīhi prajānāṃ mama ca prabho //

Manu said: / I shall abide by the order of the Lord, O destroyer of sins; / yet grant, O master, a dwelling place here for the subjects and for me.

14. Manu said:—"I shall abide by thy command; O Vanquisher of sin, Be pleased, O Lord, to appoint a place for (my) people as well as myself.

3.13.15

yad okaḥ sarva-bhūtānāṃ mahī magnā mahāmbhasi /
asyā uddharaṇe yatno deva devyā vidhīyatām //

For the earth, the dwelling place of all living beings, has sunk into the great waters; / O god, let an effort be made to raise this goddess.

15. For the great earth, the one abode of all beings, is submerged in the great water. O God, let endeavours be made to lift the divine earth from below.

3.13.16

/0 maitreya uvāca
parameṣṭhī tv apāṃ madhye tathā sannām avekṣya gām /
katham enāṃ samunneṣya iti dadhyau dhiyā ciram //

Maitreya said: / But seeing the earth thus sunk down in the midst of the waters, / the Creator pondered long in his mind: 'How shall I lift her up?'

16. Maitreya said:—Brahma saw the earth so immersed in water and for a long time reflected, "How can I lift her up."

3.13.17

sṛjato me kṣitir vārbhiḥ plāvyamānā rasāṃ gatā /
athātra kim anuṣṭheyam asmābhiḥ sarga-yojitaiḥ /
yasyāhaṃ hṛdayād āsaṃ sa īśo vidadhātu me //

'While I was creating, the earth, flooded by the waters, reached the nether world; / what then is to be done here by us, who are appointed to creation? / May that Lord, from whose heart I was born, ordain for me.'

17. While being created by me, the earth deluged by waters has gone down to Rasatala. Now what should be done in the matter by us who are commissioned to create them? May that Lord Himself, from whose heart I was born, show me the course.!

3.13.18

ity abhidhyāyato nāsā- vivarāt sahasānagha /
varāha-toko niragād aṅguṣṭha-parimāṇakaḥ //

While he was thus meditating, O sinless one, suddenly from the cavity of his nostril / there emerged a baby boar, the size of a thumb.

18. While he was thus thinking over, O sinless one, from his nostril, suddenly issued a tiny boar only as big as a thumb.

3.13.19

tasyābhipaśyataḥ kha-sthaḥ kṣaṇena kila bhārata /
gaja-mātraḥ pravavṛdhe tad adbhutam abhūn mahat //

As he looked on, O descendant of Bharata, staying in the sky it grew in an instant / to the size of an elephant; that was a great wonder.

19. While he was looking on, O Bharata, the boar in the sky grew suddenly to the size of an elephant and it was a great wonder (to the world).

3.13.20

marīci-pramukhair vipraiḥ kumārair manunā saha /
dṛṣṭvā tat saukaraṃ rūpaṃ tarkayām āsa citradhā //

Together with the brāhmaṇas headed by Marīci, with the Kumāras, and with Manu, / seeing that boar-form, he deliberated in various ways:

20. Along with the great Brahmins, Marichi and others with Sanatkumara and Manu, he saw that form of the boar and began to reflect in various ways.

3.13.21

kim etat sūkara-vyājaṃ sattvaṃ divyam avasthitam /
aho batāścaryam idaṃ nāsāyā me viniḥsṛtam //

'What is this divine being standing here in the guise of a boar? / Ah, how wonderful this is, having come forth from my nostril!

21. O, What Being is this!—perhaps a divine being come in the form of a boar! Oh, What a wonderful thing it is that it has issued from my nose?

3.13.22

dṛṣṭo 'ṅguṣṭha-śiro-mātraḥ kṣaṇād gaṇḍa-śilā-samaḥ /
api svid bhagavān eṣa yajño me khedayan manaḥ //

Seen as merely the size of the tip of a thumb, in an instant it has become like a massive boulder! / Can this be the Lord Sacrifice, perplexing my mind?'

22. First it was seen as tiny as the tip of the thumb, and in a moment it became as big as a boulder. Might it be the glorious Lord Yagna, who puts my mind to trial?

3.13.23

iti mīmāṃsatas tasya brahmaṇaḥ saha sūnubhiḥ /
bhagavān yajña-puruṣo jagarjāgendra-sannibhaḥ //

While Brahmā was thus deliberating together with his sons, / the Lord, the sacrificial Person, roared like a king of mountains.

23. While Brahma was thus pondering along with his sons, the glorious Lord Yagnapurusha who was like a mountain, roared aloud.

3.13.24

brahmāṇaṃ harṣayām āsa haris tāṃś ca dvijottamān /
sva-garjitena kakubhaḥ pratisvanayatā vibhuḥ //

Hari, the all-pervading Lord, delighted Brahmā and those foremost brāhmaṇas, / causing the directions to resound with his roar.

24. Sri Hari filled Brahma and those foremost Brahmans with gladness by his roar which with its echoes filled all the directions.

3.13.25

niśamya te ghargharitaṃ sva-kheda- kṣayiṣṇu māyāmaya-sūkarasya /
janas-tapaḥ-satya-nivāsinas te tribhiḥ pavitrair munayo 'gṛṇan sma //

Hearing that grunting of the boar of creative power, which destroyed their distress, / those sages residing in Janaloka, Tapoloka, and Satyaloka praised [him] with the three pure [Vedas].

25. Having heard the voice of the Boar who was only such in form,—the voice that tended to remove their grief, the famous sages in the regions of Jāna, Tapa, and Satya sang the praises of the Lord by repeating the three Holy Vedas.

3.13.26

teṣāṃ satāṃ veda-vitāna-mūrtir brahmāvadhāryātma-guṇānuvādam /
vinadya bhūyo vibudhodayāya gajendra-līlo jalam āviveśa //

Ascertaining the praise of his own virtues, being the manifestation of the Vedic rituals / recited by those virtuous devotees, roaring again for the prosperity of the gods, he entered the water with the play of a lordly elephant.

26. Having heard the Vedas thus chanted by them, which describe His own excellent attributes, the Supreme Lord of whom the sacrifice is a body, again roared aloud and in order to bring prosperity to the gods, he plunged into the water like a sportful elephant.

3.13.27

utkṣipta-vālaḥ kha-caraḥ kaṭhoraḥ saṭā vidhunvan khara-romaśa-tvak /
khurāhatābhraḥ sita-daṃṣṭra īkṣā- jyotir babhāse bhagavān mahīdhraḥ //

With tail raised, moving through the air, fierce, shaking his mane, with coarse, bristly skin, / with hooves striking the clouds, white-tusked, his eyes blazing with light, the Lord shone forth, mountain-like.

27. Erecting His tail, moving through the sky, shaking His manes and breaking the clouds with His hoofs, the glorious Lord Varaha, the saviour of the earth, possesed of adamantine frame shone most splendid with His stiff and erect bristles, with His white tusks and with the light of his eyes.

3.13.28

ghrāṇena pṛthvyāḥ padavīṃ vijighran kroḍāpadeśaḥ svayam adhvarāṅgaḥ /
karāla-daṃṣṭro 'py akarāla-dṛgbhyām udvīkṣya viprān gṛṇato 'viśat kam //

Sniffing with his snout to trace the path of the earth, disguised as a boar though himself made of the sacrifice, / though having terrible tusks, he looked upon the praising brāhmaṇas with gentle eyes and plunged into the water.

28. Smelling the path of the earth with His nose, the Lord of whom the sacrifice is a personality and who was now in the form of a boar of fearful tusks, but looked with gentle eyes on the Brahmans who were uttering His praises, and plunged into the water.

3.13.29

sa vajra-kūṭāṅga-nipāta-vega- viśīrṇa-kukṣiḥ stanayann udanvān /
utsṛṣṭa-dīrghormi-bhujair ivārtaś cukrośa yajñeśvara pāhi meti //

With his belly shattered by the violent impact of that thunderbolt-like body, the roaring ocean, / as if distressed, with hands of outstretched long waves, cried out: 'O Lord of Sacrifice, protect me!'

29. With his bowels torn open by the plunge of the Lord whose body was like unto a mountain of adamantine rocks, the sea, like one in distress, roared aloud stretching out his arms of swelling waves and cried aloud, “O Lord of Yagnas, protect me.”

3.13.30

khuraiḥ kṣuraprair darayaṃs tad āpa utpāra-pāraṃ tri-parū rasāyām /
dadarśa gāṃ tatra suṣupsur agre yāṃ jīva-dhānīṃ svayam abhyadhatta //

Cleaving those boundless waters with his razor-sharp hooves, he of three joints [the sacrifice] / saw down in the nether world the earth, lying as if asleep, which he himself had formerly created as the dwelling of living beings.

30. The Lord of whom yagna is a form, tore the body of waters with His hoofs sharp as arrows, so that the sea over-

flowed its shores; and at the bottom of the sea on which He would later on rest Himself, He saw the earth, the abode of all beings, and He held her fast to His stomach (bosom).

3.13.31

pātāla-mūleśvara-bhoga-saṃhatau vinyasya pādau pṛthivīṃ ca bibhrataḥ /
yasyopamāno na babhūva so 'cyuto mamāstu māṅgalya-vivṛddhaye hariḥ //

Placing his two feet on the mass of coils of the ruler of the base of Pātāla and bearing the earth, / he to whom there was no equal—may that Acyuta, Hari, be for the increase of my auspiciousness.

3.13.32

sva-daṃṣṭrayoddhṛtya mahīṃ nimagnāṃ sa utthitaḥ saṃruruce rasāyāḥ /
tatrāpi daityaṃ gadayāpatantaṃ sunābha-sandīpita-tīvra-manyuḥ //

Having raised up the submerged earth with his tusk, he arose and shone brightly from the nether world; / there too, with fierce wrath ignited by the disc [Sudarśana] against the Daitya who rushed at him with a mace,

31 & 32. The Lord shone most brilliantly when He rose (to the surface) from the bottom of the sea lifting up the submerged earth with His tusks; and there under the water, in raging anger intensified by His Sudarsana, He saw the Daitya of irresistible prowess, running up to Him with a gada to check His passage, and slew him without any effort, just as the lion slays an elephant; and now with His cheeks red with the Daitya's blood, He shone like a great elephant who has turned the (red) earth (with his tusks.)

3.13.33

jaghāna rundhānam asahya-vikramaṃ sa līlayebhaṃ mṛgarāḍ ivāmbhasi /
tad-rakta-paṅkāṅkita-gaṇḍa-tuṇḍo yathā gajendro jagatīṃ vibhindan //

he effortlessly struck down that obstructer of unbearable prowess, as a lion strikes down an elephant in water, / his cheeks and snout smeared with his blood-mud, like a lordly elephant tearing up the ground.

3.13.34

tamāla-nīlaṃ sita-danta-koṭyā kṣmām utkṣipantaṃ gaja-līlayāṅga /
prajñāya baddhāñjalayo 'nuvākair viriñci-mukhyā upatasthur īśam //

Recognizing the Lord, dark as a tamāla tree, lifting up the earth on the tip of his white tusk / with the play of an elephant, O dear one, [the sages] headed by Viriñci approached him with folded hands and Vedic hymns.

33. Brahma and others perceived Him to be the Supreme Lord who was blue like the Tamala and who, like an elephant, sportfully bore the earth on the ends of His white tusks, and with their hands followed in reverence, they chanted the Vedic hymns in praise of Him.

3.13.35

/0 ṛṣaya ūcuḥ
jitaṃ jitaṃ te 'jita yajña-bhāvana trayīṃ tanuṃ svāṃ paridhunvate namaḥ /
yad-roma-garteṣu nililyur addhayas tasmai namaḥ kāraṇa-sūkarāya te //

The ṛṣis said: / Victory, victory to you, O unconquered one, O promoter of sacrifice! Salutations to you who shake your body which is the three Vedas! / Salutations to you, the primal Boar, in the pores of whose skin the oceans lay concealed.

34. Rishis said:—Victory to Thee, O Lord, Victory to Thee: O Thou that art invoked in sacrifices, we bow to Thee that shakest Thy body which consists of the three Vedas. We again bow to Thee that art a boar on some purpose—Thou in whose pores all the sacrifices lie hidden.

3.13.36

rūpaṃ tavaitan nanu duṣkṛtātmanāṃ durdarśanaṃ deva yad adhvarātmakam /
chandāṃsi yasya tvaci barhi-romasv ājyaṃ dṛśi tv aṅghriṣu cātur-hotram //

Truly, O God, this form of yours, which consists of sacrifice, is difficult to behold for evil-doers: / the meters are in your skin; the sacrificial grass in your hairs; / the clarified butter in your eyes; and in your four legs are the functions of the four priests.

35 & 36. Such indeed is this form of Thine which is too formidable to be looked at by the sinful; O Lord, it is an embodiment of all sacrifices; the vedic metres are found in Thy skin, the *kusa* grass in Thy hair, the sacred ghee in Thine eye, the fourfold duties of the priest in Thy feet, *Sruck* in Thy mouth, and *Sruva* in Thy nostrils: O Lord, *Ida* in Thy stomach and *Chamasa* in Thine ears; *Prasitra* (the vessel in which Brahma's share is poured) in Thy mouth, the planets in Thine act of swallowing and *Agnihotra* is Thine act of chewing, O Powerful Lord.'

3.13.37

srak tuṇḍa āsīt sruva īśa nāsayor iḍodare camasāḥ karṇa-randhre /
prāśitram āsye grasane grahās tu te yac carvaṇaṃ te bhagavann agni-hotram //

The sruc ladle was in your snout, the sruva ladle, O Lord, in your nostrils; the iḍā offering in your belly, the camasa cups in the cavity of your ears; / the prāśitra in your mouth, the graha cups in your throat; and your chewing, O Lord, is the agnihotra.

3.13.38

dīkṣānujanmopasadaḥ śirodharaṃ tvaṃ prāyaṇīyodayanīya-daṃṣṭraḥ /
jihvā pravargyas tava śīrṣakaṃ kratoḥ satyāvasathyaṃ citayo 'savo hi te //

Your repeated incarnations are the initiations; your neck the upasads; your tusks the prāyaṇīya and udayanīya offerings; / your tongue the pravargya; your head the kratoḥ śīrṣa; the satya and āvasathya fires your vital airs; the sacrificial altars your bodily frames.

37. Deeksha is Thy frequent manifestation, the sacrificial acts called Upasadas, three in number, are Thy neck; the two Ishties called Prayaneeya and Udayaneeya are Thy two tusks: Pravargya forms Thy tongue, the two fires Sabhya and Avasathya form the head of Thee that art in the form of Kratu (sacrifice); and the arrangement of bricks is Thy five Pranas.

3.13.39

somas tu retaḥ savanāny avasthitiḥ saṃsthā-vibhedās tava deva dhātavaḥ /
satrāṇi sarvāṇi śarīra-sandhis tvaṃ sarva-yajña-kratur iṣṭi-bandhanaḥ //

Soma is your semen; the morning, midday, and evening offerings are your postures; the different forms of sacrifice are your bodily tissues, O Lord; / all the long sacrificial sessions are the joints of your body; you are the embodiment of all sacrifices, whose bond is the primary offering.

38. The Soma juice is Thy seed, the three savanas are Thy seat, the seven kinds of main sacrifices are the several constituents or Dhatus of Thy body; all the satras form the joints in Thy body and Thou art all Yagnas, and all Kratus; and the sacrificial act is the tie to which Thou art amenable.

3.13.40

namo namas te 'khila-mantra-devatā- dravyāya sarva-kratave kriyātmane /
vairāgya-bhaktyātmajayānubhāvita- jñānāya vidyā-gurave namo namaḥ //

Homage, homage to you, who are all mantras, deities, and sacrificial substances, who are all sacrifices, whose self is ritual action; / homage, homage to you, the teacher of knowledge, whose wisdom is realized through dispassion, devotion, and self-restraint.

39. We repeatedly bow to Thee who art all the mantras, all the duties and all substance, all sacrificial acts, all action in general, who art the knowledge realised by means of renunciation, devotion and self-control, and who art the preceptor that bestows knowledge upon us.

3.13.41

daṃṣṭrāgra-koṭyā bhagavaṃs tvayā dhṛtā virājate bhūdhara bhūḥ sa-bhūdharā /
yathā vanān niḥsarato datā dhṛtā mataṅ-gajendrasya sa-patra-padminī //

Held on the tip of your tusk, O Lord, O supporter of the earth, the earth with its mountains shines / like a lotus pond with leaves held on the tusk of a lordly rutting elephant emerging from a forest.

40. O Almighty Lord, O Supporter of Bhu, this earth along with mountains shines foremost being supported on the ends of Thy tusks, just as the lotus along with the leaves shines borne on his tusks by the great elephant who is just issuing from a forest.

3.13.42

trayīmayaṃ rūpam idaṃ ca saukaraṃ bhū-maṇḍalenātha datā dhṛtena te /
cakāsti śṛṅgoḍha-ghanena bhūyasā kulācalendrasya yathaiva vibhramaḥ //

And this boar-form of yours, consisting of the three Vedas, with the circle of the earth held by its tusk, / gleams like the graceful beauty of the king of mountain ranges carrying a dense mass of clouds upon its peak.

41. This Varaha form of Thine, the embodiment of the three Vedas, with the mundane globe on Thy tusks, is as charming as the beauty of the lofty Kulachala, when it bears heavy clouds on its summits.

3.13.43

saṃsthāpayaināṃ jagatāṃ sa-tasthuṣāṃ lokāya patnīm asi mātaraṃ pitā /
vidhema cāsyai namasā saha tvayā yasyāṃ sva-tejo 'gnim ivāraṇāv adhāḥ //

Establish her for the world of mobile and immobile beings; you are the father, she the mother, your consort; / and we offer worship with reverent bow to her along with you, into whom you have placed your energy, like fire in the kindling sticks.

42. O Lord, give this earth, Thy queen, and mother of the world, a firm situation, so that she may support the creation, mobile and immobile, for thou art the Father. We make our bow to Thee as well as to her in whom Thou hast placed Thy vital power, like fire in a piece of sacrificial wood.

3.13.44

kaḥ śraddadhītānyatamas tava prabho rasāṃ gatāyā bhuva udvibarhaṇam /
na vismayo 'sau tvayi viśva-vismaye yo māyayedaṃ sasṛje 'tivismayam //

Who else could believe, O master, the lifting of the earth that had gone to the nether world? / Yet this is no wonder in you, who are the wonder of the universe, and who by your creative power brought forth this exceedingly marvelous creation.

43. O Lord, who else could possibly think of lifting up the earth that has sunk to the bottom of the sea ? It is nothing wonderful in Thee who art the home of all wonders and who hast created this exceedingly wonderful world by Thy Maya.

3.13.45

vidhunvatā vedamayaṃ nijaṃ vapur janas-tapaḥ-satya-nivāsino vayam /
saṭā-śikhoddhūta-śivāmbu-bindubhir vimṛjyamānā bhṛśam īśa pāvitāḥ //

As you shook your own body consisting of the Vedas, we, the dwellers of Janas, Tapas, and Satya, / sprinkled with the auspicious drops of water shaken from the tips of your mane, have been thoroughly purified, O Lord.

44. O Lord, when Thou shakest Thine own body composed of Vedas, we the dwellers in Jana, Tapas and Satya _lokas_ are thoroughly cleansed and purified with the drops of the holy water falling from the ends of Thy manes.

3.13.46

sa vai bata bhraṣṭa-matis tavaiṣate yaḥ karmaṇāṃ pāram apāra-karmaṇaḥ /
yad-yogamāyā-guṇa-yoga-mohitaṃ viśvaṃ samastaṃ bhagavan vidhehi śam //

He indeed is of ruined intellect who seeks the limit of the deeds of you whose deeds are limitless; / O Lord, bestow peace upon this entire universe, which is deluded by the union with the qualities of your divine power of illusion.

45. He indeed is pitiable and he has lost his judgment who hopes to see (know) exhaustively the deeds done by Thee to whose deeds there is no end. O glorious Lord, make the whole universe happy—the universe which is deluded through association with the gunas on account of Thy _yoganidra_.

3.13.47

/0 maitreya uvāca
ity upasthīyamāno 'sau munibhir brahma-vādibhiḥ /
salile sva-khurākrānta upādhattāvitāvanim //

Maitreya said:
Being thus praised by the sages who discourse on Brahman,
he placed the rescued earth on the waters trodden by his own hooves.

46. Maitreya said:—Being thus praised by the sages who were chanting the Vedas, the Lord and the Protector (in the form of the Boar) set the earth on the water traversed by His hoofs.

3.13.48

sa itthaṃ bhagavān urvīṃ viṣvaksenaḥ prajāpatiḥ /
rasāyā līlayonnītām apsu nyasya yayau hariḥ //

Thus the Lord Viṣvaksena, the protector of creatures, Hari,
having in divine play lifted the earth from the nether world, placed it on the waters and departed.

47. Thus the glorious Lord, Hari, who is Vishwaksena and the Lord of all beings, placed on the water the earth which He lifted without effort from Rasatala, and then vanished out of sight.

3.13.49

ya evam etāṃ hari-medhaso hareḥ kathāṃ subhadrāṃ kathanīya-māyinaḥ /
śṛṇvīta bhaktyā śravayeta vośatīṃ janārdano 'syāśu hṛdi prasīdati //

Whoever hears with devotion or recounts to others this auspicious and charming narration
of Hari, the dispeller of distress, whose creative powers are worthy of celebration, Janārdana is swiftly pleased in his heart.

48. Janardana is soon pleased with him who listens with faith to, and explains to others, this charming and auspicious story of Hari—Hari whose knowledge is the end of Samsara and whose wonderful deeds are worthy of being recounted.

3.13.50

tasmin prasanne sakalāśiṣāṃ prabhau kiṃ durlabhaṃ tābhir alaṃ lavātmabhiḥ /
ananya-dṛṣṭyā bhajatāṃ guhāśayaḥ svayaṃ vidhatte sva-gatiṃ paraḥ parām //

When he, the master of all blessings, is pleased, what can be difficult to obtain? Away with those trivial fruits!
To those who worship with undivided vision, the Supreme, dwelling in the secret heart, himself grants his own highest state.

49. When that Lord of all blessings is pleased, is there anything that cannot be obtained ? Enough with those blessings which are of little value. For, on those that worship Him without any other purpose, the Lord who dwells in every heart, of His own accord, confers the highest blessings.

3.13.51

ko nāma loke puruṣārtha-sāravit purā-kathānāṃ bhagavat-kathā-sudhām /
āpīya karṇāñjalibhir bhavāpahām aho virajyeta vinā naretaram //

Who indeed in the world, knowing the essence of human aims, having drunk through the cups of his ears
the nectar of stories of the Lord that removes worldly existence, could ever turn away from it—save a beast in human form?

50. Having realised the supreme purpose of man and having once drunk, through the ear (like unto joined hands), the nectar of the Lord's story inthe midst of many other stories of the past—the story which redeems man from Samsara, who would

indeed in this world cease to have a charm for it, unless he be something other than man?