Lord Kṛṣṇa Instructs Vasudeva and Retrieves Devakī’s Sons
बलिरुवाच नमोऽनन्ताय बृहते नम: कृष्णाय वेधसे । साङ्ख्ययोगवितानाय ब्रह्मणे परमात्मने ॥ ३९ ॥
Transliteration
balir uvāca namo ’nantāya bṛhate namaḥ kṛṣṇāya vedhase sāṅkhya-yoga-vitānāya brahmaṇe paramātmane
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
baliḥ uvāca — Bali said; namaḥ — obeisances; anantāya — to Ananta, the unlimited Lord; bṛhate — the greatest being; namaḥ — obeisances; kṛṣṇāya — to Kṛṣṇa; vedhase — the creator; sāṅkhya — of sāṅkhya analysis; yoga — and of mystic yoga; vitānāya — the disseminator; brahmaṇe — the Absolute Truth; parama-ātmane — the Supersoul.
Translation
“King Bali said: Obeisances to the unlimited Lord, Ananta, the greatest of all beings. And obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the creator of the universe, who appears as the impersonal Absolute and the Supersoul in order to disseminate the principles of sāṅkhya and yoga.”