562 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

sahasra-vadane yeriho Sesa-sankarsana
dasa deha dhari’ kare krsnera sevana

SYNONYMS

sahasra-vadane—with thousands of mouths; yefAho—one who; Sesa-sankarsana—
Lord Sesa, the incarnation of Sankarsana; dasa—ten; deha—bodies; dhari’—accept-
ing; Rare—does; krsnera—of Lord Krsna; sevana—service.

TRANSLATION

He who is Sesa, Sankarsana, with His thousands of mouths, serves Sri Krsna by
assuming ten forms.

TEXT 79

TAZ SH PY—Aat cay ext |
Otay CBcal, ALL S-STSGA | 9D 11

ananta brahmande rudra——sadasivera arhsa
gunavatara tenho, sarva-deva-avatarhsa

SYNONYMS

ananta—unlimited; brahmdnde—in the universes; rudra—Lord Siva; saddsivera
arh$a—part and parcel of Sadasiva; guna-avatdra—an incarnation of a quality; tenho
—he also; sarva-deva-avatarisa—the ornament of all the demigods.

TRANSLATION

Rudra, who is an expansion of Sadasiva and who appears in unlimited universes,
is also a gunavatara [qualitative incarnation] and is the ornament of all the demi-
gods in the endless universes.

PURPORT

There are eleven expansions of Rudra, or Lord Siva. They are as follows: Ajaikapat,
Ahibradhna, Viripaksa, Raivata, Hara, Bahuriipa, Devasrestha Tryambaka, SAvitra,
Jayanta, Pinaki and Aparajita. Besides these expansions there are eight forms of
Rudra called earth, water, fire, air, sky, the sun, the moon and soma-yaji. Generally
all these Rudras have five faces, three eyes and ten arms. Sometimes it is found that
Rudra is compared to Brahma and considered a living entity. But when Rudra is,
explained to be a partial expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is
compared to Sesa. Lord Siva is therefore simultaneously an expansion of Lord
Visnu and, in his capacity for annihilating the creation, one of the living entities. As
an expansion of Lord Visnu he is called Hara, and he is transcendental to the ma-
terial qualities, but when he is in touch with tamo-guna he appears contaminated
