Text 7] The Advent of Lord Krṣṇa: Introduction
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vīryāṇi tasyākhila-deha-bhājām antar bahiḥ pūruṣa-kāla-rūpaiḥ prayacchato mṛtyum utāmṛtaṁ ca māyā-manuṣyasya vadasva vidvan
pitāmahāḥ—my grandfathers, the five Pāṇḍavas (Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva); me—my; samare—on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra; amaram-jayaiḥ—with fighters who could gain victory over the demigods on the battlefield; devavrata-ādya—Bhiṣmadeva and others; atirathaiḥ—great commanders in chief; timiṅgilaiḥ—resembling great timiṅgila fish, which can easily eat large sharks; duratyayam—very difficult to cross; kaurava-sainya-sāgaram—the ocean of the assembled soldiers of the Kauravas; kṛtvā—considering such an ocean; ataran—crossed it; vatsa-padam—exactly as one steps over a small hoofprint of a calf; sma—in the past; yat-plavāḥ—the shelter of the boat of Krṣṇa's lotus feet; drauṇi—of Aśvatthāmā; astra—by the brahmāstra; vipluṣṭam—being attacked and burned; idam—this; mat-aṅgam—my body; santāna-bījam—the only seed left, the last descendant of the family; kuru-pāṇḍavānām—of the Kurus and the Pāṇḍavas (because no one but me lived after the Battle of Kurukṣetra); jugopa—gave protection; kukṣim—within the womb; gataḥ—being placed; ātta-cakraḥ—taking in hand the disc; mātuḥ—of my mother; ca—also; me—my; yaḥ—the Lord who; śaraṇam—the shelter; gatāyāḥ—who had taken; vīryāṇi—the glorification of the transcendental characteristics; tasya—of Him (the Supreme Personality of Godhead); akhila-deha-bhājām—of all the materially embodied living entities; antaḥ bahiḥ—inside and outside; pūruṣa—of the Supreme Person; kāla-rūpaiḥ—in the forms of eternal time; prayacchataḥ—who is the giver; mṛtyum—of death; uta—it is so said; amṛtam ca—and eternal life; māyā-manuṣyasya—of the Lord, who appeared as an ordinary human being by His own potency; vadasva—kindly describe; vidvan—O learned speaker (Śukadeva Gosvāmī).
TRANSLATION
Taking the boat of Krṣṇa's lotus feet, my grandfather Arjuna and others crossed the ocean of the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, in which such commanders as Bhiṣmadeva resembed great fish that