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SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
स एवेदं ससर्जाग्रे भगवानात्ममायया ॥
 

"It is that great Lord, who, by his own

mystic power, created this universe at

the beginning.
 
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यथा ह्यबहितो वह्निर्दारुष्वेकस्स्वयोनिषु ।

नानेव भाति विश्वात्मा भूतेषु च तथा पुमान् ॥
 
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As the one fire lit in several pieces of

wood which form its substratum appears

manifold, even so does the one Being,

the soul of the universe, appear manifold

in the several beings.
 
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अवतारा ह्यसंख्येया हरेस्सत्त्व निधेर्द्विजाः ।

यथाविदासिनः कुल्याः सरसस्स्युरसहस्रशः ॥
 

"Ye twice-born ! innumerable are the

incarnations of Hari, the abode of power,

even as there may be thousands of

streamlets from an inexhaustible lake.
 

 
'इदं भागवतं नाम पुराणं ब्रह्मसंमितम् ।

उत्तमश्लोकचरितं चकार भगवानृषिः ॥
 

"This Purana of the doings of the

Lord of greatest renown, the well-known

Bhagavata equal to the Vedas, the blessed

sage Vyasa composed.