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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 20 ]
TEXT 50
तेभ्यः सोऽसृजत्स्त्रीयं पुरं पुरुषमात्मवान् । तान् दृष्ट्वा ये पुरा सृष्टाः प्रशशंसुः प्रजापतिम् ॥५०॥
tebhyaḥ so 'sṛjat svīyaṁ puraṁ puruṣam ātmavān tān dṛṣṭvā ye purā sṛṣṭāḥ praśaśaṁsuḥ prajāpatim
tebhyaḥ—to them; saḥ—Lord Brahmā; asṛjat—gave; svīyam—his own; puram—body; puruṣam—human; ātmavān—self-possessed; tān—them; dṛṣṭvā—on seeing; ye—those who; purā—earlier; sṛṣṭāḥ—were created (the demigods, Gandharvas, etc., who were created earlier); praśaśaṁsuḥ—applauded; prajāpatim—Brahmā (the lord of created beings).
TRANSLATION
The self-possessed creator gave them his own human form. On seeing the Manus, those who had been created earlier—the demigods, the Gandharvas and so on—applauded Brahmā, the lord of the universe.
TEXT 51
अहो एतजगत्स्नष्टः सुकृतं बत ते कृतम् । प्रतिष्ठिताः क्रिया यस्मिन् साकमन्नमदामहे ॥५१॥
aho etaj jagat-sraṣṭaḥ sukṛtaṁ bata te kṛtam pratiṣṭhitāḥ kriyā yasmin sākam annam adāma he
aho—O; etat—this; jagat-sraṣṭaḥ—O creator of the universe: sukṛtam—well done; bata—indeed; te—by you; kṛtam—produced; pratiṣṭhitāḥ—established soundly; kriyāḥ—all ritualistic performances; yasmin—in which; sākam—along with it; annam—the sacrificial oblations; adāma—we shall share; he—O.
TRANSLATION
They prayed: O creator of the universe, we are glad; what you have produced is well done. Since ritualistic acts have now been established soundly in this human form, we shall all share the sacrificial oblations.