Canto 3: The Status QuoChapter 6: Creation of the Universal Form

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.6.27

śīrṣṇo 'sya dyaur dharā padbhyāḿ

khaḿ nābher udapadyata

guṇānāḿ vṛttayo yeṣu

pratīyante surādayaḥ

SYNONYMS

śīrṣṇaḥ — head; asya — of the gigantic form; dyauḥ — the heavenly planets; dharā — earthly planets; padbhyām — on His legs; kham — the sky; nābheḥ — from the abdomen; udapadyata — became manifested; guṇānām — of the three modes of nature; vṛttayaḥ — reactions; yeṣuin which; pratīyante — manifest; sura-ādayaḥ — the demigods and others.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter, from the head of the gigantic form, the heavenly planets were manifested, and from His legs the earthly planets and from His abdomen the sky separately manifested themselves. Within them the demigods and others also were manifested in terms of the modes of material nature.

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