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killed by the hand of the Lord, the demon was pierced by the tusk, and
Srila Visvandtha Cakravarti Thakur confirms this version.
TEXT 2
SME COOUCECUCIC RCE 5
ART TATTT SPATE |
WATT «HEME Farle
MATT AIA AU ATATE WR
jato rucer ajanayat suyaman suyajna
akiiti-sinur amaran atha daksinayam
loka-trayasya mahatim aharad yadartim
svayambhuvena manuné harir ity aniiktah
jatah—was born; ruceh—of the wife of Prajapati; ajanayat—gave birth;
suyaman—headed by Suyama; suyajiah—Suyajiia; akiiti-sinur—of the son
of Akiiti;amaran—the demigods; atha—thus; daksindyaém—unto the wife of
the name Daksina; loka--the planetary systems; trayasya—of the three;
mahatim—very great; aharat—diminished; yat—all those; artim—distresses;
svayambhuvena—by the Manu named Svayambhuva; manund—by the
father of mankind; harih—Hari; iti—thus; antiktah—named.
TRANSLATION
The Prajapati first begot Suyajiia, in the womb of his wife Akiati, and
then Suyajria begot demigods, headed by Suyama, in the womb of his wife
Dakgina. Suyajiia, as the Indradeva, diminished very great miseries in the
three planetary systems (upper, lower and intermediate), and because he so
diminished the miseries of the universe, he was later called Hari by the
great father of mankind, namely Svayambhuva Manu.
PURPORT
In order to guard against the invention of unauthorized incarnations of
God by the fanciful less intelligent persons, the name of the father of the
bona fide incarnations is also mentioned in the authorized revealed scrip-
tures. No one, therefore, can be accepted as an incarnation of the Lord if
his father’s name, as well as the name of the village or place in which he
appears, is not mentioned by the authorized scriptures. In the Bhdgavata-
Purdna the name of the Kalki incarnation, which is to take place in almost
