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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
how the incarnations of the Supreme Lord work all over the material worlds, which comprehend only one-fourth of the total energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The Manvantara incarnation chastises all the miscreant rulers of different planets with as much power as that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who punishes the miscreants with His wheel weapon. The Manvantara incarnations disseminate the transcendental glories of the Lord.
TEXT 21
धन्वन्तरिश्च भगवान् स्वयमेव कीर्ति-
नाम्ना नृणां पुरुरुजां रुज आशु हन्ति।
यज्ञे च भागममृतायुरवावरुन्धे
आयुष्यवेदमनुशास्त्यवतीर्यलोके ॥२१॥
dhanvantariś ca bhagavān svayam eva kīrtir nāmnā nṛṇām puru-rujām ruja āśu hanti yajñe ca bhāgam amṛtāyur-avāvarundha āyuṣya-vedam anuśāsty avatīrya loke
dhanvantariḥ—the incarnation of God named Dhanvantari; ca—and; bhagavān—the Personality of Godhead; svayam eva—personally Himself; kīrtiḥ—fame personified; nāmnā—by the name; nṛṇām puru-rujām—of the diseased living entities; rujaḥ—diseases; āśu—very soon; hanti—cures; yajñe—in the sacrifice; ca—also; bhāgam—share; amṛta—nectar; āyuḥ—duration of life; ava—from; avarundhe—obtains; āyuṣya—of duration of life; vedam—knowledge; anuśāsti—directs; avatīrya—incarnating; loke—in the universe.
TRANSLATION
The Lord in His incarnation of Dhanvantari very quickly cures the diseases of the ever diseased living entities simply by His fame personified, and due to Him only the demigods achieve long duration of life. Thus the Personality of Godhead becomes ever glorified. He also exacted a share from the sacrifices, and it is He only who inaugurated the medical science or the knowledge of medicine in the universe.