Text 2] Praise of King Pṛthu by the Professional Reciters
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na alam —not able;  vayam —we;  te —your;  mahima —glories;  anuvarṇane —in describing;  yaḥ —you who;  deva —the Personality of Godhead;  varyaḥ —foremost;  avatatāra —descended;  māyayā —by His internal potencies or causeless mercy;  vena-aṅga —from the body of King Vena;  jātasya —who have appeared;  ca —and;  pauruṣāṇi —glorious activities;  te —of you;  vācaḥ-patīnām —of great orators;  api —although;  babhramuḥ —became bewildered;  dhiyaḥ —the minds.
TRANSLATION
The reciters continued: Dear King, you are a direct incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, and by His causeless mercy you have descended on this earth. Therefore it is not possible for us to actually glorify your exalted activities. Although you have appeared through the body of King Vena, even great orators and speakers like Lord Brahmā and other demigods cannot exactly describe the glorious activities of Your Lordship.
PURPORT
In this verse the word  māyayā  means “by your causeless mercy.” The Māyāvādī philosophers explain the word  māyā  as meaning “illusion” or “falseness.” However, there is another meaning of  māyā —that is, “causeless mercy.” There are two kinds of  māyā — yogamāyā  and  mahāmāyā .  Mahāmāyā  is an expansion of  yogamāyā , and both these  māyās  are different expressions of the Lord’s internal potencies. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā , the Lord appears through His internal potencies ( ātma-māyayā ). We should therefore reject the Māyāvāda explanation that the Lord appears in a body given by the external potency, the material energy. The Lord and His incarnation are fully independent and can appear anywhere and everywhere by virtue of the internal potency. Although born out of the so-called dead body of King Vena, King Pṛthu was still an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the Lord’s internal potency. The Lord can appear in any family. Sometimes He appears as a fish incarnation ( mutsya-avatāra ), or a boar incarnation ( varāha-avatāra ). Thus the Lord is completely free and independent to appear anywhere and everywhere by His internal potency. It is stated that Ananta, an incarnation of the Lord who has unlimited mouths, cannot reach the end of His glorification of the Lord, although Ananta has been describing the Lord since time immemorial. So what to speak of demigods like Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and others? It is said that the Lord is  śiva-viriñci-nutam —always worshiped by demigods like