Text 24] Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions 377

TEXT 24

TH aaachrecrgaT
at arategt aaz faa: |
SerabraTaaTTEeT
TATA RVI

yasma addd udadhi riidha-bhayanga-vepo
margam sapady ari-puram haravad didhaksoh

ditre suhrm-mathita-rosa-susona-drstya
tatapyamana-makaroraga-nakra-cakrah

yasmai—unto whom; adat—gave; udadhih—the great Indian Ocean;
rudha-bhaya—affected by fear; anga-vepah—bodily trembling; margam—
way; sapadi—quickly; ari-puram—the city of the enemy; haravat—like
that of Hara (Mahadeva); didhaksoh—desiring to burn into ashes; dire—
at a long distance; su-hri—intimate friend; mathita—being aggrieved by;
rosa—in anger; su-Sona—red-hot; drstya—by such a glance; tatapyamana—
burning in heat; makara— sharks ;uraga— snakes ;nakra— crocodiles;cakrah—
circle.

TRANSLATION

The Personality of Godhead Ramacandra, being aggrieved for His
distant intimate friend [Sita], glanced over the city of the enemy Ravana
with red-hot eyes like those of Hara [who wanted to burn the kingdom of
heaven]. The great ocean, trembling in fear, gave Him His way because its
family members, the aquatics like the sharks, snakes and crocodiles, were
being burnt by the heat of the angry red-hot eyes of the Lord.

PURPORT

The Personality of Godhead has every sentiment of a sentient being,
like all other living beings, because He is the chief and original living entity,
the supreme source of all other living beings. He is the nitya, or the chief
eternal amongst all other eternals. He is the chief one, and all others are
the dependent many. The many eternals are supported by the one eternal,
and thus both the eternals are qualitatively one. Due to such oneness, both
the eternals have constitutionally a complete range of sentiments, but the
difference is that the sentiments of the chief eternal are different in
