Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 1.69-70

eka-i vigraha yadi haya bahu-rūpa

ākāre ta' bheda nāhi, eka-i svarūpa

mahiṣī-vivāhe, yaiche yaiche kaila rāsa

ihāke kahiye kṛṣṇera mukhya 'prakāśa'

SYNONYMS

eka-i — the same one; vigraha — person; yadi — if; haya — becomes; bahu-rūpa — many forms; ākāre — in appearance; ta' — certainly; bheda — difference; nāhi — there is not; eka-i — one; sva-rūpa — identity; mahiṣī — with the queens of Dvārakā; vivāhe — in the marriage; yaiche yaiche — in a similar way; kaila — He did; rāsa — rāsa dance; ihāke — this; kahiye — I say; kṛṣṇera — of Kṛṣṇa; mukhya — principal; prakāśa — manifested forms.

TRANSLATION

When the Personality of Godhead expands Himself in many forms, all nondifferent in Their features, as Lord Kṛṣṇa did when He married sixteen thousand queens and when He performed His rāsa dance, such forms of the Lord are called manifested forms [prakāśa-vigrahas].

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