Canto 3, Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Verse 22 (SB 3.13.22)
SB 3.13.22 • मूल श्लोक

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

Transliteration

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

Synonyms (Word-for-Word)

dṛṣṭaḥ — just seen; aṅguṣṭha — thumb; śiraḥ — tip; mātraḥ — only; kṣaṇāt — immediately; gaṇḍa-śilā — large stone; samaḥ — like; api svit — 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?”

Bhaktivedanta Purport

By Śrīla Prabhupāda
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.