Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /49

RY OF CULTURE
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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'प्रजास्सृज यथापूर्ववं याश्च मय्यनुशेरते ॥
 
'
"(Now,) create, as you did in the

previous cycle, the beings that

"embedded in Me."
 
are
 
• GOVERNMENT OF
 
JITA
 
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स्कृति संघा
 
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विरिञ्चोऽपि तथा चक्रे यथाऽऽह भगवानजः ।

तपसा विद्यया लोकान्प्राग्लीनान् लीलयाऽसृजत् ॥
 

The creator. did as the unborn Lord

told him. With his penance and know-

ledge, he sportfully created the worlds

that had previously dissolved (into the

Lord).
 

 
परमेष्ठी त्वां मध्ये तदा सन्नामवेक्ष्य गाम् ।

कथमेनां समुन्नेष्य इति दृदध्यौ धिया चिरम् ॥
 

But seeing the earth lost at that time in

the midst of waters, the creator thought

for a long time of how he could lift

her up.
 

 
'यस्याहं हृदयादासं स ईशो विद्दधातु मे ॥'
 

"May that Master from whose heart

I had my being do me (what is needful). "
 

 
इत्यभिध्यायतो नासाविवरात्सहसा [अनघ] ।

वराहतोको निरगाद्दङ्गुगष्टठपरिमाणकः ॥
 
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