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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 13]
possible that He kept the entire earth on the support of His white tusks? The poet Jayadeva, a great devotee of the Lord, has sung of the incident in his prayers for the incarnations:
vasati daśana-śikhare dharaṇī tava lagnā śaśini kalaṅka-kaleva nimagnā keśava dhṛta-śūkara-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare
“All glories to Lord Keśava [Kṛṣṇa], who appeared as the boar. The earth was held between His tusks, which appeared like the scars on the moon.”
TEXT 28
घ्राणेन पृथ्व्याः पदवीं विजिघ्रन्
कोडापदेशः स्वयमध्वराङ्गः ।
करालदंष्ट्रोऽप्यकरालदृग्भ्या-
मुद्गीक्ष्य विप्रान् गृणतोऽविशत्कम् ॥२८॥
ghrāṇena pṛthvyāḥ padavīm vijighran kroḍāpadeśaḥ svayam adhvarāngaḥ karāla-daṁṣṭro'py akarāla-dṛgbhyām- udvīkṣya viprān gṛṇato'viśat kam
ghrāṇena—by smelling; pṛthvyāḥ—of the earth; padavīm—situation; vijighran—searching after the earth; kroḍa-apadeśaḥ—assuming the body of a hog; svayam—personally; adhvara—transcendental; aṅgaḥ—body; karāla—fearful; daṁṣṭraḥ—teeth (tusks); api—in spite of; akarāla—not fearful; dṛgbhyām—by His glance; udvīkṣya—glancing over; viprān—all the brāhmaṇa devotees; gṛṇataḥ—who were engaged in prayers; aviśat—entered; kam—the water.
TRANSLATION
He was personally the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu and was therefore transcendental, yet because He had the body of a hog, He searched after the earth by smell. His tusks were fearful, and He glanced over the devotee brāhmaṇas engaged in offering prayers. Thus He entered the water.
PURPORT
We should always remember that although the body of a hog is material, the hog form of the Lord was not materially contaminated. It is not possible for an earthly hog to assume a gigantic form spreading throughout the sky, beginning from the Satyaloka. His body is always transcendental