Text 29] The Residents of Jambidvipa Offer Prayers 205

hiranmaye "pi bhagavan nivasati kiirma-tanum bibhranas tasya tat
priyatamam tanum aryama saha varsa-purusaih pitr-ganddhipatir
upadhavati mantram imam canujapaii.

hiranmaye—in Hiranmaya-varsa; api—indeed; bhagavdn—the
Supreme Personality of Godhead; nivasati—resides; kiirma-tanum—the
body of a tortoise; bibhranah—manifesting; tasya—of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead; tat—that; priya-tamam—dearmost; tanum—
body; aryama—Aryami, the chief resident of Hiranmaya-varsa; saha—
with; varsa-purusaih—the people of that tract of land; pitr-gana-
adhipatih—who is the chief of the pitas; upadhdvati—worships in devo-
tional service; mantram—hymn; imam—this; ca—also; anujapati—
chants.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami continued: In Hiranmaya-varsa, the Supreme
Lord, Visnu, lives in the form of a tortoise [kirma-éarira]. This
most dear and beautiful form is always worshiped there in devo-
tional service by Aryama, the chief resident of Hiranmaya-varsa,
along with the other inhabitants of that land. They chant the
following hymns.

PURPORT

The word priyatama (dearmost) is very significant in this verse. Each
devotee regards a particular form of the Lord as most dear. Because of an
atheistic mentality, some people think that the tortoise, boar and fish in-
carnations of the Lord are not very beautiful. They do not know that any
form of the Lord is always the fully opulent Personality of Godhead.
Since one of His opulences is infinite beauty, all the Lord’s incarnations
are very beautiful and are appreciated as such by devotees. Nondevotees,
however, think that Lord Krsna’s incarnations are ordinary material
creatures, and therefore they distinguish between the beautiful and the
not beautiful. A certain form of the Lord is worshiped by a particular
devotee because he loves to see that form of the Lord. As stated in
Brahma-samhita (5.33): advaitam acyutam anddim ananta-ripam
adyam purdna-purusam nava-yauvanam ca. The very beautiful form of
