🪷 ŚB 3.20.8

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ŚB 3.20.8requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 3.20parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 3parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā source-walk inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

Sanskrit

सूत उवाच हरेर्धृतक्रोडतनो: स्वमायया निशम्य गोरुद्धरणं रसातलात् । लीलां हिरण्याक्षमवज्ञया हतं सञ्जातहर्षो मुनिमाह भारत: ॥ ८ ॥

Transliteration

sūta uvāca harer dhṛta-kroḍa-tanoḥ sva-māyayā niśamya gor uddharaṇaṁ rasātalāt līlāṁ hiraṇyākṣam avajñayā hataṁ sañjāta-harṣo munim āha bhārataḥ
Synonyms
sūtaḥ uvāca — Sūta said; hareḥ — of the Lord; dhṛta — who had assumed; kroḍa — of a boar; tanoḥ — body; sva-māyayā — by His divine potency; niśamya — having heard; goḥ — of the earth; uddharaṇam — uplifting; rasātalāt — from the bottom of the ocean; līlām — sport; hiraṇyākṣam — the demon Hiraṇyākṣa; avajñayā — neglectfully; hatam — killed; sañjāta-harṣaḥ — being overjoyed; munim — to the sage (Maitreya); āha — said; bhārataḥ — Vidura.

Translation

Sūta Gosvāmī continued: Vidura, the descendant of Bharata, was delighted to hear the story of the Lord, who, having assumed by His own divine potency the form of a boar, had enacted the sport of lifting the earth from the bottom of the ocean and indifferently killing the demon Hiraṇyākṣa. Vidura then spoke to the sage as follows.

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