Text 17| Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 483

very much satisfied. He had a smiling face decorated with an enchanting
reddish hue. He was dressed in yellow robes and wore earrings and a helmet
on his head. He had four hands, and His chest was marked with the
lines of the goddess of fortune.

PURPORT

In the Padma Purana, Uttara-khanda, there is a full description of the
yoga-pitha or the particular place where the Lord is in audience to His
eternal devotees. In that yoga-pitha, the personifications of religiousness,
knowledge, opulence, and renunciation are all seated at the lotus feet
of the Lord. The four Vedas, namely Rk, Sama, Yajus, and Atharva, are
present there personally to advise the Lord. The sixteen energies headed by
Canda are all present there. Canda and Kiimuda are the two first door-
keepers, and at the middle door there are the doorkeepers named Bhadra
and Subhadra, and at the last door there are Jaya and Vijaya. There are
other doorkeepers also, named Kimuda, Kumudaksa, Pundarika, Vamana,
Sankukarna, Sarvanetra, Sumukha, etc. The palace is well decorated and
protected by the above-mentioned doorkeepers.

TEXT 17

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adhyarhaniydsanam asthitar param
vrtam catuh-sodasa-panica-saktibhih

yuktam bhagaih svair itaratra cadhruvaih
sva eva dhaman ramamanam igsvaram

adhyarhaniya—greatly worshipable;asanam—throne; asthitam—sealted on
it; param—the Supreme; vrtam—surrounded by; catuh—four, namely
prakrti, purusa, mahat and ego; sodasa—the sixteen; pafica—the live; sakti-
bhih—by the energies; yuktam—empowered with; bhagaih—Ilis opulences;
svaih—personal; itaratra—other minor prowesses; ca—also; adhruvaih—tem-
