Text 19] Praise of King Pṛthu by the Professional Reciters
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plenary expansion;  avatīrṇaḥ —descended;  yasmin —in whom;  avidyā-racitam —created by nescience;  nirarthakam —without meaning;  paśyanti —they see;  nānātvam —material variegatedness;  api —certainly;  pratītam —understood.
TRANSLATION
This King is the master of the three worlds, and he is directly empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is without change, and he is an incarnation of the Supreme known as a śaktyāveśa-avatāra. Being a liberated soul and completely learned, he understands that all material varieties are without meaning because their basic principle is nescience.
PURPORT
The reciters of these prayers are describing the transcendental qualities of Pṛthu Mahārāja. These qualities are summarized in the words  sākṣād bhagavān . This indicates that Mahārāja Pṛthu is directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead and therefore possesses unlimited good qualities. Being an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahārāja Pṛthu could not be equaled in his excellent qualities. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is fully equipped with six kinds of opulences, and King Pṛthu was also empowered in such a way that he could display these six opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in full.
The word  kūṭastha , meaning “without change,” is also very significant. There are two kinds of living entities— nitya-mukta  and  ritya-baddha . A  nitya-mukta  never forgets his position as the eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who does not forget this position and knows that he is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord is  nitya-mukta . Such a  nitya-mukta  living entity represents the Supersoul as His expansion. As stated in the  Vedas ,  nityo nityānām . Thus the  nitya-mukta  living entity knows that he is an expansion of the supreme  nitya , or the eternal Supreme Personality of Godhead. Being in such a position, he sees the material world with a different vision. The living entity who is  nitya-baddha , or eternally conditioned, sees the material varieties as being actually different from one another. In this connection we should remember that the embodiment of the conditioned soul is considered to be like a dress. One may dress in different ways, but a really learned man does not take dresses into consideration. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā :
vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini