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SB 3.13.22

Devanāgarī

द‍ृष्टोऽङ्गुष्ठशिरोमात्र: क्षणाद्‍गण्डशिलासम: । अपि स्विद्भगवानेष यज्ञो मे खेदयन्मन: ॥ २२ ॥

Text

dṛṣṭo ’ṅguṣṭha-śiro-mātraḥ kṣaṇād gaṇḍa-śilā-samaḥ api svid bhagavān eṣa yajño me khedayan manaḥ

Synonyms

dṛṣṭaḥ—just seen;aṅguṣṭha—thumb;śiraḥ—tip;mātraḥ—only;kṣaṇāt—immediately;gaṇḍa-śilā—large stone;samaḥ—like;apisvit—whether;bhagavān—the Personality of Godhead;eṣaḥ—this;yajñaḥ—Viṣṇu;me—my;khedayan—perturbing;manaḥ—mind.

Translation

First of all this boar was seen no bigger than the tip of a thumb, and within a moment He was as large as a stone. My mind is perturbed. Is He the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu?

Purport

Since Brahmā is the supermost person in the universe and he had never before experienced such a form, he could guess that the wonderful appearance of the boar was an incarnation of Viṣṇu. The uncommon features symptomatic of the incarnation of Godhead can bewilder even the mind of Brahmā.
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