Text 22] Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions 373
PURPORT
As stated in the beginning of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, everything ema-
nates from the ultimate source of the Personality of Godhead; it is there-
fore understood in this verse that medical science or knowledge in medicine
was also inaugurated by the Personality of Godhead in His incarnation
Dhanvantari, and thus the knowledge is recorded in the Vedas. The Vedas
are the source of all knowledge, and thus knowledge in medical science is
also there for the perfect cure of the diseases of the living entity. The
embodied living entity is diseased by the very construction of his body.
The body is the symbol of diseases. The disease may differ from one
variety to another, but disease must be there just as there is birth and death
for everyone. So, by the grace of the Personality of Godhead, not only
diseases of the body and mind are cured, but also the soul is relieved of the
constant repetition of birth and death. The name of the Lord is also called
bhavausadhi, or the source of curing the disease of material existence.
TEXT 22
at aay fafrarrget ware
maTy Saar AHA Se |
TETAS RATA
faaee — THATTTT AT UR
ksatram ksayaya vidhinopabhrtam mahatma
brahma-dhrug ujjhita-patham narakarti-lipsu
uddhanty asav avanikantakam ugra-viryas
trih-sapta-krtva urudhara-parasvadhena
ksatram—the royal order; ksaydya—for the matter of diminishing;

vidhind—by destination; upabhrtam—increased in proportion; mahatma—
the Lord in the form of the great sage Paragurama; brahma-dhruk—the
ultimate truth in Brahman; ujjhita-patham—those who have given up the
path of Absolute Truth; naraka-arti-lipsu—desirous to suffer pain in hell;
uddhanti—exacts; asau—all those; avanikantakam—thorns of the world;
ugra-viryah—awfully powerful; th-sapta—thrice seven times; krtvah—per-
formed; urudhara—very sharp; parasvadhena—by the great chopper.
