250 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 7

churning again. The mountain rested on the back of the great tor-
toise, which extended for eight hundred thousand miles like a
large island.

TEXT 10
quarsanaia ated
afaned fittaR ga: |
finq = aadaaTeaea
AASHWSTATTAT: Noll

surasurendrair bhuja-virya-vepitam
paribhramantam girim anga prsthatah

bibhrat tad-dvartanam adi-kacchapo
mene ‘nga-kandiiyanam aprameyah

sura-asura-indraih—by the leaders of the demons and the demigods;
bhuja-virya—by the strength of their arms; vepitam—moving;
paribhramantam—rotating; girim—the mountain; ariga—O Maharaja
Pariksit; prsthatah—on His back; bibhrat—bore; tat—of that;
dvartanam—the rotating; ddi-kacchapah—as the supreme original tor-
toise; mene—considered; anga-kandiiyanam—as pleasing scratching of
the body; aprameyah—unlimited.

TRANSLATION

O King, when the demigods and demons, by the strength of
their arms, rotated Mandara Mountain on the back of the extraor-
dinary tortoise, the tortoise accepted the rolling of the mountain
as a means of scratching His body, and thus He felt a pleasing sen-
sation.

PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always the unlimited. Al-
though the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His body as a tortoise,
held on His back the largest of mountains, Mandara-parvata, He did not
feel any inconvenience. On the contrary, He apparently felt some itch-
ing, and thus the rotation of the mountain was certainly very pleasing.
