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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.3.23
SYNONYMS
ekonavimśe — in the nineteenth; vimśatime — in the twentieth also; vrishnishu — in the Vrishni dynasty; prāpya — having obtained; janmanī — births; rāma — Balarāma; krishnau — Śrī Krishna; iti — thus; bhuvah — of the world; bhagavān — the Personality of Godhead; aharat — removed; bharam — burden.
TRANSLATION
In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarāma and Lord Krishna in the family of Vrishni [the Yadu dynasty], and by so doing He removed the burden of the world.
PURPORT
The specific mention of the word bhagavān in this text indicates that Balarāma and Krishna are original forms of the Lord. This will be further explained later. Lord Krishna is not an incarnation of the purusha, as we learned from the beginning of this chapter. He is directly the original Personality of Godhead, and Balarāma is the first plenary manifestation of the Lord. From Baladeva the first phalanx of plenary expansions, Vāsudeva, Sańkarshana, Aniruddha and Pradyumna, expands. Lord Śrī Krishna is Vāsudeva, and Baladeva is Sańkarshana.
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