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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
TRANSLATION
There He manifested Vaikuṇṭha as His own abode and rested in the waters on the bed of Lord Śeṣa.
TEXTS 100-101
অনন্তনয্যাতে তাঁহা করিল শয়ন ।
সহস্র মস্তুক তাঁর সহস্র বদম ॥ ১০০ ॥
সহস্র-চরণ-হস্ত, সহস্র-সমন ।
সর্ব-অবতার-বীজ, জগৎ-কারণ ॥ ১০১ ॥
ananta-śayyāte tāṅhā karila śayana sahasra mastaka tāhra sahasra vadana
sahasra-caraṇa-hasta, sahasra-nayana sarva-avatāra-bīja, jagat-kāraṇa
SYNONYMS
ananta-śayyāte —on Lord Ananta as a bed;  tāṅhā —there;  karila śayana —lay down;  sahasra —thousands;  mastaka —heads;  tāṅra —His;  sahasra vadana —thousands of faces;  sahasra —thousands;  caraṇa —legs;  hasta —hands;  sahasra-nayana —thousands of eyes;  sarva-avatāra-bīja —the seed of all incarnations;  jagat-kāraṇa —the cause of the material world.
TRANSLATION
He lay there with Ananta as His bed. Lord Ananta is a divine serpent having thousands of heads, thousands of faces, thousands of eyes and thousands of hands and feet. He is the seed of all incarnations and is the cause of the material world.
PURPORT
In the reservoir of water first created by the perspiration of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Lord lies on the Śeṣa plenary expansion of Viṣṇu, who is described in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and in the four  Vedas  as follows:
sahasra-śīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasra-pāt sa bhūmiṁ viśvato vṛtvātyatiṣṭhad daśāṅgulam
“The Viṣṇu form called Ananta-śayana has thousands of hands and legs and thousands of eyes, and He is the active generator of all the incarnations within the material world.”