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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
head;  kutaḥ —what to speak of others;  avarāḥ —born after us;  ye —those  gāyan —by singing;  guṇān —the qualities;  daśa-śata-ānanaḥ —one who has ten hundred faces;  ādi-devaḥ —the first incarnation of the Lord;  śeṣaḥ —known as Śeṣa;  adhunā —up to date;  api —even;  samavasyati —can achieve;  na —not:  asya —of Him;  pāram —limit.
TRANSLATION
Neither myself nor all the sages who were born before you know fully the omnipotent Personality of Godhead. So what can others, who are born after us, know about Him? Even the first incarnation of the Lord, namely Śeṣa, has not been able to reach the limit of such knowledge, although He is describing the qualities of the Lord with ten hundred faces.
PURPORT
The omnipotent Personality of Godhead has primarily three potential manifestations, namely internal, external, and marginal potencies, with unlimited expansions of these three energies. As such, the potential expansions can never be calculated by anyone because even the Personality of God Himself, as the incarnation of Śeṣa, could not estimate the potencies, although He has been describing them continually with His one thousand faces.
TEXT 42
येषां स एष भगवान् दययेदनन्तः
सर्वात्मनाश्रितपदो यदि निर्व्यलीकम्।
ते दुस्तरामतितरन्ति च देवमायां
नैषां ममाहमिति धीः श्वशृगालभक्ष्ये ॥४२॥
yeṣāṁ sa eṣa bhagavān dayayed anantaḥ sarvātmanāśrita-pado yadi nirvyalīkam te dustarām atitaranti ca deva-māyāṁ naiṣāṁ mamāham iti dhīḥ śva-śrgāla-bhakṣye