Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 5.113

yuga-manvantare dhari' nānā avatāra

dharma saḿsthāpana kare, adharma saḿhāra

SYNONYMS

yuga-manu-antare — in the ages and millenniums of Manu; dhari' — accepting; nānā — various; avatāra — incarnations; dharma saḿsthāpana kare — establishes the principles of religion; adharma saḿhāra — vanquishing irreligious principles.

TRANSLATION

In the ages and millenniums of Manu, He appears as different incarnations to establish the principles of real religion and vanquish the principles of irreligion.

PURPORT

The Lord Viṣṇu who lies in the ocean of milk incarnates Himself in various forms to maintain the laws of the cosmos and annihilate the causes of disturbance. Such incarnations are visible in every manv-antara (i.e., in the course of the reign of each Manu, who lives for 71 x 4,320,000 years). Fourteen such Manus take their birth and die, to yield a place for the next, during one day of Brahmā.

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