Text 11] King Prthu’s Appearance and Coronation 627

padayor aravindam ca tam
vai mene hareh kalam

yasyapratihatam cakram
amsah sa paramesthinah

brahma—L.ord Brahma; jagat-guruh—the master of the universe; devath—
by the demigods; saha—accompanied; asrtya—arriving; sura-isvaraih—with
the chiefs of all the heavenly planets; vainyasya—of Maharaja Prthu, the
son of Vena; daksine—right; haste—on the hand; drstva—seeing; cihnam—
mark; gada-bhrtah—of Lord Visnu, who carries the club; padayoh—on the
two feet; aravindam—lotus flower; ca—also; tam—him; vai—certainly; mene
—he understood; hareh—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; kalam—
part of a plenary expansion; yasya—whose; apratihatam—invincible;
cakram—disc; amsah—partial representation; sah—he; paramesthinah—of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Lord Brahma, the master of the entire universe, arrived there accom-
panied by all the demigods and their chiefs. Seeing the lines of Lord
Visnu’s palm on King Prthu’s right hand and impressions of lotus flowers
on the soles of his feet, Lord Brahma could understand that King Prthu
was a partial representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One
whose palm bears the sign of a disc, as well as other such lines, should be
considered a partial representation or incarnation of the Supreme Lord.

PURPORT

There is a system by which one can detect an incarnation of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nowadays it has become a cheap fashion
to accept any rascal as an incarnation of God, but from this incident we
can see that Lord Brahma personally examined the hands and feet of King
Prthu for specificsigns. In their prophecies the learned sages and brahmanas
accepted Prthu Maharaja as a plenary partial expansion of the Lord.
During the presence of Lord Krsna, however, a king declared himself
Vasudeva, and Lord Krsna killed him. Before accepting someone as an
incarnation of God, one should verify his identity according to the symp-
toms mentioned in the sastras. Without these symptoms the pretender is
subject to be killed by the authorities for pretending to be an incarnation

of God.
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