130 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 21

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Sri-Suka uvaca
satyarn samiksyabja-bhavo nakhendubhir
hata-svadhéma-dyutir Gurto *bhyagat
marici-misra rsayo brhad-vratah

sanandanddyé nara-deva yoginah

sri-Sukah uvaca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; satyam—the planet
Satyaloka; samiksya—by observing; abja-bhavah—Lord Brahma, who
appeared on the lotus flower; nakha-indubhih—by the effulgence of the
nails; hata—having been reduced; sva-dhdma-dyutih—the illumination
of his own residence; durtah—being covered; abhyagat—came; marici-
misrah—with sages like Marici; rsayah—great saintly persons; brhat-
vratah—all of them absolutely brahmacdri; sanandana-ddyah—like
Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumara; nara-deva—O King;
yoginah—greatly powerful mystics.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami continued: When Lord Brahma, who was
born of a lotus flower, saw that the effulgence of his residence,
Brahmaloka, had been reduced by the glaring effulgence from the
toenails of Lord Vamanadeva, he approached the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. Lord Brahma was accompanied by all the
great sages, headed by Marici, and by yogis like Sanandana, but in
the presence of that glaring effulgence, O King, even Lord Brahma
and his associates seemed insignificant.

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