CHAPTER THREE

Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations

TEXT 1

aa zara
Se 2 Ca ey!

Te TR St ATaTeHEaiata: |
WT NETRA! TBAT II 8
suta uvaca

Jagrhe paurusam ripam
bhagavan mahad-adibhih

sambhittam sodasa-kalam
ddau loka-sisrksaya

sitah uvdca—Sita said; jagrhe—accepted; paurusam—plenary portion as
the purusa incarnation; rijpam—form; bhagavan—the Personality of God-
head; mahat-adibhih—with the ingredients of the material world; sam-
bhittam—thus there was the creation of; sodasa-kalam—sixteen primary
principles; ddau—in the beginning; loka—the universes; sisrksaya—on the
intention of creating.

TRANSLATION

Siita said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded
Himself in the universal form of the p::-usa incarnation and manifested all
the ingredients for the material creatic.. And thus at first there was the
creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the
purpose of creating the material universe.

PURPORT

The Bhagavad-gita states that the Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna
maintains these material universes by extending His plenary expansions.

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