Text 40] The Hellish Planets 481

directions; naraka—the hellish planets: bhagana-loka—the luminaries
and higher planets; samstha—the situation: gitd —described; maya—by
me; tava—for you; nrpa—O King; adbhutam—wonderful: iévarasya —
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sthiilam—gross: vapuh—body:
sakala-jiva-nikadya —of all the masses of living entities, dhama—which
is the place of repose.

TRANSLATION

My dear King, I have now described for you this planet earth,
other planetary systems, and their lands [varsas], rivers and moun-
tains. I have also described the sky, the oceans, the lower planetary
systems, the directions, the hellish planetary systems and the stars.
These constitute the virata-rapa, the gigantic material form of the
Lord, on which all living entities repose. Thus I have explained the
wonderful expanse of the external body of the Lord.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Twenty-sixth

Chapter, of Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “A Description of the Hellish
Planets.”

— Completed in the Honolulu temple of the Pajica-tattva, June 5, 1975

There is a supplementary note written by His Divine Grace Bhakti-
siddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja Prabhupada in his Gaudiya-
bhasya. Its translation is as follows. Learned scholars who have full
knowledge of all the Vedic scriptures agree that the incarnations of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead are innumerable. These incarnations
are classified into two divisions, called prabhava and vaibhava. Accord-
ing to the scriptures, prabhava incarnations are also classified in two
divisions —those which are called eternal and those which are not vividly
described. In this Fifth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, in Chapters Three
through Six, there is a description of Rsabhadeva, but there is not an ex-
panded description of His spiritual activities. Therefore He is considered
to belong to the second group of prabhava incarnations. In Srimad-
Bhagavatam, First Canto, Chapter Three, verse 13, it is said:
