Text 42] Prayers by the Demigods 199

Sri-Suka uvaca
ity abhistitya purusarn
yad-ripam anidam yatha
brahmesanau purodhéya
devah pratiyayur divam

Sri-Sukah uvéca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; iti—in this way;
abhistiiya—offering prayers; purusam—unto the Supreme Person-
ality; yat-ripam—whose form; anidam—transcendental; yathd—as;
brahma—Lord Brahma; iSénau—and Lord Siva; purodhaya—keeping
them in front; devah—all the demigods; pratiyayuh—returned;
divam—to their heavenly homes.

TRANSLATION

After thus offering prayers to the Supreme Personality of God-
head, Lord Visnu, the Transcendence, all the demigods, with Lord
Brahmi and Lord Siva before them, returned to their homes in the
heavenly planets.

PURPORT
It is said:

adydpiha caitanya e saba lila kare
yan’ra bhagye thake, se dekhaye nirantare
(Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya 23.513)

The incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead appear con-
tinuously, like the waves of a river or an ocean. There is no limit to the
Lord’s incarnations, but they can be perceived only by devotees who are
fortunate. The devatds, the demigods, fortunately understood the incar-
nation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus they offered
their prayers. Then Lord Siva and Lord Brahma led the demigods in
returning to their homes.

The word kuksi-gatah, meaning “within the womb of Devaki,” has
been discussed by Sri Jiva Gosvami in his Krama-sandarbha commen-
tary. Since it was said at first that Krsna was present within the heart of
Vasudeva and was transferred to the heart of Devaki, Sri Jiva Gosvami
writes, how is it that Krsna was now in the womb? He replies that there
