Text 15] Manifestation of Brahma from Garbhodakaégayi Visnu 315

sa padma-koSsah sahasodatisthat
kalena karma-pratibodhanena

sva-rocisa tat salilam visalam
vidyotayann arka ivatma-yonih

sali—that; padma-kogah—bud of a lotus flower; sahasa—suddenly;
udatisthat—appeared; kdlena—by time; karma—fruitive activities;
pratibodhanena—awakening; sva-rocisé—by its own effulgence; tat—that;
salilam—water of devastation; visdlam—vast; vidyotayan—illuminating;
arkah—the sun; iva—like; atma-yonih—generating from the Personality of
Visnu.

TRANSLATION

Piercing through, this sum total form of the fruitive activity of the
living entities took the shape of the bud of a lotus flower generated from
the Personality of Visnu, and by His supreme will it illuminated everything,
like the sun, and dried up the vast waters of devastation.

TEXT 15

qgiard a 3g oq fay:

MTA TOT ATT
afq ad tera fram
ara ft a ata TINT 24

tal loka-padmam sa u eva visnuh
pravivisat sarva-gunavabhasam

tasmin svayam veda-mayo vidhata
svayam-bhuvam yam sma vadanti so ’bhit

tat—that; loka—universal; padmam—lotus flower; sah—He; u—certainly;
eva—factually; visnuh—the Lord; pravivigat—entered into; sarva—all; guna-
avabhdsam—reservoir of all modes of nature; tasmin—in which; svayam—
in person; veda-mayah—the personality of Vedic wisdom; vidhata—con-
troller of the universe; svayam-bhuvam—self-born; yam—whom; sma—in
the past; vadanti—do say; sah—he; abhiit—generated.

TRANSLATION

Into that universal lotus flower Lord Visnu personally entered as the
Supersoul, and when it was thus impregnated with all the modes of material
nature, the personality of Vedic wisdom, whom we call the self-born, was
generated.
