Text 15] Genealogical Table of the Daughters of Manu 13

durvasasam— Durvasa; somam—Soma (the moon-god); atma—the Supersoul;
igsa— Lord Siva; brahma—Lord Brahma; sambhavan—incarnations of.

TRANSLATION

Anasuya, the wife of Atri Muni, gave birth to three very famous sons,
Soma, Dattatreya and Durvasa, who were partial representations of Lord
Visnu, Lord Siva and Lord Brahma. Soma was a partial representation of
Lord Brahma, Dattatreya was a partial representation of Lord Visnu, and
Durvasa was a partial representation of Lord Siva.

PURPORT

In this verse we find the words a@tma-iga-brahma-sambhavan. Atma means
the Supersoul, or Visnu, ia means Lord Siva, and brahma means the four-
headed Lord Brahma. The three sons born of Anasitya—Dattatreya,
Durvasé and Soma—were born as partial representations of these three
demigods. Atma is not in the category of the demigods or living entities
because He is Visnu; therefore He is described as vibhinnamsa-bhitanam. The
Supersoul or Visnu is the seed-giving father of all living entities, including
Brahma and Lord Siva. Another meaning of the word dtma may be
accepted in this way: the principle who is the Supersoul in every atma, or,
one may say, the soul of everyone, became manifested as Dattatreya,
because the word arsa, part and parcel, is used here.

In Bhagavad-gita the individual souls are also described as parts of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead or Supersoul, so why not accept that
Dattatreya is one of those parts? Lord Siva and Lord Brahma are also
described here as parts, so why not accept all of them as ordinary
individual souls? The answer is that the manifestations of Visnu and
those of the ordinary living entities are certainly all parts and parcels of
the Supreme Lord, and no one is equal to Him, but among the parts and
parcels there are different categories. In the Varaha Purana it is nicely
explained that some of the parts are svamsa, and some are vibhinnarsa.
Vibhinnamsa parts are called jivas, and svamsa parts are in the Visnu
category. In the jiva category, the vibhinnaméa parts and parcels, there are
also gradations. That is explained in the Visnu Purana, where it is clearly
stated that the individual parts and parcels who can travel to any part of
the Lord’s creation are called sarva-gata and are suffering the pangs of
material existence. They are subject to be freed from the coverings of
ignorance under material existence according to different levels of work
