The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c11.122

v1.c11.122

61. The *Viṣṇu purāṇa* describes Kṛṣṇa, as an *Aṃśāvatāra* or a manifestation of a part of Viṣṇu; *Aṃśāvatāra Brahmarṣe yo yaṃ Yadukulodbhavaḥ* : but the *Bhāgavata* takes him to be *Pūrṇa Brahma*, or *Brahma* in his entirety. The difference is reconciled by the commentators, by the assertion, that even as a lamp lighted from another, does not abstract from the light of the first, and yet is as bright as the first, so the divine spirit, which has the character of light, cannot suffer diminution or enhancement. Hence, “a full arises out of a full ; if a full is taken from a full, a full remains.” *Vide* Muir’s *Original Sanskrit Texts*, IV. p. 219.