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beautiful island is decorated with desire trees to please Lord Visnu and His consort.”
There are references to Svetadvipa in the Brahmdnda Purana, Visnu Purana,
Mahabharata and Padma Purana, and there is the following reference in the Srimad-
Bhdgavatam (11.15.18).

$veta-dvipa-patau cittarh
Suddhe dharma-maye mayi

dhdrayar chvetatam yati
sad-&rmi-rahito narah

“My dear Uddhava, you may know that My transcendental form of Visnu in
Svetadvipa is identical with Me in divinity. Anyone who places this Lord of
Svetadvipa within his heart can surpass the pangs of the six material tribulations:
hunger, thirst, birth, death, lamentation and illusion. Thus one can attain his
original transcendental form.”

TEXT 113

Ga-Nqecs aie’ are Sats |
U4 ALUIAA SCA, WAT MLETA ll SHO Hl

yuga-manvantare dhari’ ndnd avatdra
dharma sarhsthdpana kare, adharma sarhhara

SYNONYMS

yuga-manvantare—in the ages of millenniums of Manu; dhari’—accepting; nadnd—
various; avatdra—incarnations; dharma sarhsthdpana kare—establishes the principles
of religion; adharma sarnhdra—vanquishing irreligious principles.

TRANSLATION

In the ages and millenniums of Manu, He appears as different incarnations to
establish the principles of real religion and vanquish the principles of irreligion.

PURPORT

Lord Visnu, who lies in the ocean of milk, incarnates Himself in various forms to
maintain the laws of the cosmos and annihilate the causes of disturbance. Such
incarnations are visible in every manvantara (i.e., in the course of the reign of each
Manu, who lives for 71 x 4,300,000 years). Fourteen such Manus take their birth
and die, to yield a place for the next, during one day of Brahma.

TEXT 114

Cratice al ottn Sreta eater |
SATTSTCT NS’ Seaa Gam W358 8
