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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.17.6-7
yac cānyad api krishnasya
bhaktāya me 'nuraktāya
SYNONYMS
yat — which; ca — and; anyat — other; api — certainly; krishnasya — of Krishna; bhavān — your good self; bhagavatah — of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; prabhoh — powerful; śravah — glorious activities; su-śravasah — who is very pleasing to hear about; punyam — pious; pūrva-deha — of His previous incarnation; kathā-āśrayam — connected with the narration; bhaktāya — unto the devotee; me — to me; anuraktāya — very much attentive; tava — of you; ca — and; adhokshajasya — of the Lord, who is known as Adhokshaja; ca — also; vaktum arhasi — please narrate; yah — one who; aduhyat — milked; vainya-rūpena — in the form of the son of King Vena; gām — cow, earth; imām — this.
TRANSLATION
Prithu Mahārāja was a powerful incarnation of Lord Krishna's potencies; consequently any narration concerning his activities is surely very pleasing to hear, and it produces all good fortune. As far as I am concerned, I am always your devotee as well as a devotee of the Lord, who is known as Adhokshaja. Please therefore narrate all the stories of King Prithu, who, in the form of the son of King Vena, milked the cow-shaped earth.
PURPORT
Lord Krishna is also known as avatārī, which means, "one from whom all the incarnations emanate." In Bhagavad-gītā (10.8) Lord Krishna says, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate: "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me." Thus Lord Krishna is the origin of everyone's appearance. As far as this material world is concerned, Lord Brahmā, Lord Vishnu and Lord Śiva are all emanations from Krishna. These three incarnations of Krishna are called guna-avatāras. The material world is governed by three material modes of nature, and Lord Vishnu, Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva respectively take charge of the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. Mahārāja Prithu is also an incarnation of those qualities of Lord Krishna by which one rules over conditioned souls.
In this verse the word adhokshaja, meaning "beyond the perception of the material senses," is very significant. No one can perceive the Supreme Personality of Godhead by mental speculation; therefore a person with a poor fund of knowledge cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Since one can form only an impersonal idea on the strength of one's material senses, the Lord is known as Adhokshaja.
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