Text 19] Prayers by the Demigods 143

could see her transcendental beauty, which resulted from her conceiving
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. | _

Commenting upon this verse, Sri Viraraghava Acarya writes,
vasudeva-devaki-jatharayor hrdayayor bhagavatah sambandhah. The
Supreme Lord’s entrance into the womb of Devaki from the heart of
Vasudeva was a heart-to-heart relationship.

TEXT 19

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sé devaki sarva-jagan-nivasa-
nivdsa-bhita nitaradm na reje
bhojendra-gehe ‘gni-sikheva ruddha

sarasvati jidna-khale yatha sati

sa devaki—that Devakidevi; sarva-jagat-nivasa—of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, the sustainer of all the universes (mat-sthani
sarva-bhitdni); nivaésa-bhita—the womb of Devaki has now become the
residence; nitaradm—extensively; na—not; reje—became illuminated;
bhojendra-gehe—within the limits of the house of Karnsa; agni-sikha
iva—like the flames of a fire; ruddha—covered; sarasvati—knowledge;
jfiidna-khale—in a person known as jiidna-khala, one who possesses
knowledge but cannot distribute it; yatha—or just as; sati—so being.

TRANSLATION

Devaki then kept within herself the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, the cause of all causes, the foundation of the entire cos-
mos, but because she was under arrest in the house of Karhsa, she
was like the flames of a fire covered by the walls of a pot, or like a
person who has knowledge but cannot distribute it to the world
for the benefit of human society.
