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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 4, Ch. 1 ]
TRANSLATION
[Maitreya said:] O Vidura, thus the demigods worshiped with prayers the Supreme Personality of Godhead appearing as the sage Nara-Nārāyaṇa, and the Lord glanced upon them with mercy and then departed for Gandhamādana Hill.
TEXT 59
ताविमो वै मगवतो हरेशाविहागतौ । मारुययाय च भुवः कृष्णौ यदुकुरुद्वहो ॥५९॥
tāv imau vai bhagavato harer amśāv ihāgatau bhāra-vyayāya ca bhuvaḥ kṛṣṇau yadu-kurūdvahau
tau —both;  imau —these;  vai —certainly;  bhagavataḥ —of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  hareḥ —of Hari;  amśau —part and parcel expansion;  iha —here (in this universe);  āgatau —has appeared;  bhāra-vyayāya —for mitigation of the burden;  ca —and;  bhuvaḥ —of the world;  kṛṣṇau —the two Kṛṣṇas (Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna);  yadu-kuru-udvahau —who are the best of the Yadu and Kuru dynasties respectively.
TRANSLATION
That Nara-Nārayaṇa Rṣi, who is a partial expansion of Kṛṣṇa, has now appeared in the dynasties of Yadu and Kuru, in the forms of Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna respectively, in order to mitigate the burden of the world.
PURPORT
Nārāyaṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Nara is a part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa. Thus the energy and the energetic together are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Maitreya informed Vidura that Nara, the portion of Nārāyaṇa, had appeared in the family of the Kurus and that Nārāyaṇa, the plenary expansion of Kṛṣṇa, had come as Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with the purpose of delivering the suffering humanity from the pangs of material burdens.