Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c9.s3.44

c9.s3.44

(iii) The form or body assumed is non-natural and incorruptible (aprākṛta) and has nothing of the grossness of earthly forms (apārthiva). It is an intelligential essence (jñānātmā), but it consists of a Vigraha or concrete form of pure existence, bliss and intelligence (saccidānanda-vigraha) like the form of the deity himself. The Avatāra thus retains absolute knowledge, absolute existence and absolute bliss, as well as omnipotence and power to grant salvation (mokṣadatva-svabhāva). But