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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
sahasra-vadane yeṅho śeṣa-saṅkarṣaṇa daśa deha dhari' kare kṛṣṇera sevana
SYNONYMS
sahasra-vadane —with thousands of mouths;  yeṅho —one who;  śeṣa-saṅkarṣaṇa —Lord Śeṣa, the incarnation of Saṅkarṣaṇa;  daśa —ten;  deha —bodies;  dhari' —accepting;  kare —does;  kṛṣṇera —of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  sevana —service.
TRANSLATION
He who is Śeṣa, Saṅkarṣaṇa, with His thousands of mouths, serves Śrī Kṛṣṇa by assuming ten forms.
TEXT 79
অনন্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ডে রুদ্র — সদাশিবের অংশ ।
গুণাবতার তেঁহো, সর্বদেব-অবতংস ॥ ৭৯ ॥
ananta brahmāṇḍe rudra—sadāśivera aṁśa guṇāvatāra teṅho, sarva-deva-avataṁsa
SYNONYMS
ananta —unlimited;  brahmāṇḍe —in the universes;  rudra —Lord Śiva;  sadāśivera aṁśa —part and parcel of Sadāśiva;  guṇa-avatāra —an incarnation of a quality;  teṅho —he also;  sarva-deva-avataṁsa —the ornament of all the demigods.
TRANSLATION
Rudra, who is an expansion of Sadāśiva and who appears in unlimited universes, is also a guṇāvatāra [qualitative incarnation] and is the ornament of all the demigods in the endless universes.
PURPORT
There are eleven expansions of Rudra, or Lord Śiva. They are as follows: Ajaikapāt, Ahibradhna, Virūpākṣa, Raivata, Hara, Bahurūpa, Devaśreṣṭha Tryambaka, Sāvitra, Jayanta, Pināki and Aparājita. Besides these expansions there are eight forms of Rudra called earth, water, fire, air, sky, the sun, the moon and  soma-yājī . Generally all these Rudras have five faces, three eyes and ten arms. Sometimes it is found that Rudra is compared to Brahmā and considered a living entity. But when Rudra is explained to be a partial expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is compared to Śeṣa. Lord Śiva is therefore simultaneously an expansion of Lord Viṣṇu and, in his capacity for annihilating the creation, one of the living entities. As an expansion of Lord Viṣṇu he is called Hara, and he is transcendental to the material qualities, but when he is in touch with  tamo-guṇa  he appears contaminated