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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Madhya 20.249
SYNONYMS
avatārāh — all the incarnations; hi — certainly; asańkhyeyāh — beyond counting; hareh — from the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sattva-nidheh — who is the reservoir of spiritual energy; dvijāh — O brāhmanas; yathā — as; avidāsinah — containing a great reservoir of water; kulyāh — small rivulets; sarasah — from a lake; syuh — must be; sahasraśah — by hundreds and thousands of times.
TRANSLATION
"'O learned brāhmanas, just as hundreds and thousands of small rivulets issue from great reservoirs of water, innumerable incarnations flow from Śrī Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the reservoir of all power.'
PURPORT
This verse is quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.26).
Copyright © r The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness