622 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 15

iicuh parama-santusta
viditva bhagavat-kalam

tat—that; drstva—seeing; mithunam—couple; jatam—born; rsayah—the
great sages; brahma-vadinah—very learned in Vedic knowledge; écuh—said;
parama—very much; santus{ah—being pleased ; viditva—knowing; bhagavat—
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; kalam—expansion.

TRANSLATION

The great sages were highly learned in Vedic knowledge. When they
saw the male and female born of the arms of Vena’s body, they were very
pleased, for they could understand that the couple was an expansion of the
plenary portion of Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

PURPORT

The method adopted by the great sages and scholars, who were learned
in Vedic knowledge, was perfect. They removed all the reactions of King
Vena’s sinful activities by seeing that King Vena first gave birth to Bahuka,
described in the previous chapter. After King Vena’s body was thus
purified, a male and female came out of it, and the great sages could
understand that this was an expansion of Lord Visnu. This expansion, of
course, was not visnu-tattva but a specifically empowered expansion of
Lord Vignu known as dvesa.

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ay feohinaa: Be arated |
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rsaya icuh
esa visnor bhagavatah
kala bhuvana-palini
iyam ca laksmyah sambhiatih
purusas yanapayini

rsayah uicuh—the sages said; esah—this male; visroh—of Lord Visnu;
bhagavatah—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; kala—expansion;
bhuvana-palini—who maintains the world; iyam—this female; ca—also;
laksmyah—of the goddess of fortune; sambhitih—expansion; purusasya—
of the Lord; anapayini—inseparable.
