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Šrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[[Madhya-lilā, Ch. 22]]
Text 8
স্বাংশ-বিভিন্নাংশ-রূপে হঞা বিস্তার । অনন্ত বৈকুণ্ঠ-ব্রহ্মাণ্ডে করেন বিহার ॥ ৮ ॥
svāṁśa-vibhinnāṁśa-rūpe hañā vistāra ananta vaikuṇṭha-brahmāṇḍe karena vihāra
SYNONYMS
sva-arṅśa —of personal expansions;  vibhinna-arṅśa —of separated expansions;  rūpe —in the forms;  hañā —becoming;  vistāra —expanded;  ananta —unlimited;  vaikuṇṭha —in the spiritual planets known as Vaikuṇṭhas;  brahmāṇḍe —in the material universes;  karena vihāra —performs His pastimes.
TRANSLATION
“Kṛṣṇa expands Himself in many forms. Some of them are personal expansions, and some are separate expansions. Thus He performs pastimes in both the spiritual and material worlds. The spiritual worlds are the Vaikuṇṭha planets, and the material universes are brahmāṇḍas, gigantic globes governed by Lord Brahmā.
Text 9
স্বাংশ-বিস্তার—চতুর্যুহ, অবতারগণ । বিভিন্নাংশ জীব—তাঁর শক্তিতে গণন ॥ ৯ ॥
svāṁśa-vistāra  —  catur-vyūha , avatāra-gaṇa vibhinnāṁśa jīva — tāṅra śaktite gaṇana
SYNONYMS
sva-aṁśa-vistāra —the expansion of His personal forms;  catuḥ-vyūha —His quadruple form;  avatāra-gaṇa —the incarnations;  vibhinna-aṁśa —His separated forms;  jīva —the living entities;  tāṅra —His;  śaktite —in the category of potency;  gaṇana —calculating.
TRANSLATION
“Expansions of His personal self—like the quadruple manifestations of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Vāsudeva—descend as incarnations from Vaikuṇṭha to this material world. The separated expansions are living entities. Although they are expansions of Kṛṣṇa, they are counted among His different potencies.