Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: दितिर्दाक्षायणी क्षत्तर्मारीचं कश्यपं पतिम् ।अपत्यकामा चकमे सन्ध्यायां हृच्छयार्दिता ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: ditir dākṣāyaṇī kṣattarmārīcaṁ kaśyapaṁ patimapatya-kāmā cakamesandhyāyāṁ hṛc-chayārditā Translation: Diti, daughter of Dakṣa, being afflicted with sex desire, begged her husband, Kaśyapa, the son of Marīci, to have intercourse with her in the evening in order to beget a child. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: तद्विधेहि नमस्तुभ्यं कर्मस्वीड्यात्मशक्तिषु ।यत्कृत्वेह यशो विष्वगमुत्र च भवेद्गति: ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: tad vidhehi namas tubhyaṁkarmasv īḍyātma-śaktiṣuyat kṛtveha yaśo viṣvagamutra ca bhaved gatiḥ Translation: O worshipful one, please give us your direction for the execution of duty within our working capacity so that we can follow it for fame in this life and progress in the next. Purport: Brahmā is the direct recipient of Vedic knowledge from the Personality of Godhead, and anyone discharging his entrusted duties in disciplic succession from Brahmā is sure to gain fame in this life and salvation in the next....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: स वै रुरोद देवानां पूर्वजो भगवान् भव: ।नामानि कुरु मे धात: स्थानानि च जगद्गुरो ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: sa vai ruroda devānāṁpūrvajo bhagavān bhavaḥnāmāni kuru me dhātaḥsthānāni ca jagad-guro Translation: After his birth he began to cry: O destiny maker, teacher of the universe, kindly designate my name and place. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: लघूनि वै समाम्नाता दश पञ्च च नाडिका ।ते द्वे मुहूर्त: प्रहर: षड्याम: सप्त नृणाम् ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: laghūni vai samāmnātādaśa pañca ca nāḍikāte dve muhūrtaḥ praharaḥṣaḍ yāmaḥ sapta vā nṛṇām Translation: Fifteen laghus make one nāḍikā, which is also called a daṇḍa. Two daṇḍas make one muhūrta, and six or seven daṇḍas make one fourth of a day or night, according to human calculation....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: पद्मकोशं तदाविश्य भगवत्कर्मचोदित: ।एकं व्यभाङ्क्षीदुरुधा त्रिधा भाव्यं द्विसप्तधा ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: padma-kośaṁ tadāviśyabhagavat-karma-coditaḥekaṁ vyabhāṅkṣīd urudhātridhā bhāvyaṁ dvi-saptadhā Translation: Thus engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Brahmā entered into the whorl of the lotus, and as it spread all over the universe he divided it into three divisions of worlds and later into fourteen divisions....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: क्षुत्तृट्त्रिधातुभिरिमा मुहुरर्द्यमाना:शीतोष्णवातवरषैरितरेतराच्च ।कामाग्निनाच्युत रुषा च सुदुर्भरेणसम्पश्यतो मन उरुक्रम सीदते मे ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: kṣut-tṛṭ-tridhātubhir imā muhur ardyamānāḥśītoṣṇa-vāta-varaṣair itaretarāc cakāmāgninācyuta-ruṣā ca sudurbhareṇasampaśyato mana urukrama sīdate me Translation: O great actor, my Lord, all these poor creatures are constantly perplexed by hunger, thirst, severe cold, secretion and bile, attacked by coughing winter, blasting summer, rains and many other disturbing elements, and overwhelmed by strong sex urges and indefatigable anger....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: सांख्यायन: पारमहंस्यमुख्योविवक्षमाणो भगवद्विभूती: ।जगाद सोऽस्मद्गुरवेऽन्वितायपराशरायाथ बृहस्पतेश्च ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: sāṅkhyāyanaḥ pāramahaṁsya-mukhyovivakṣamāṇo bhagavad-vibhūtīḥjagāda so ’smad-gurave ’nvitāyaparāśarāyātha bṛhaspateś ca Translation: The great sage Sāṅkhyāyana was the chief amongst the transcendentalists, and when he was describing the glories of the Lord in terms of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, it so happened that my spiritual master, Parāśara, and Bṛhaspati both heard him. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: श्रीशुक उवाचस इत्थं चोदित: क्षत्त्रा तत्त्वजिज्ञासुना मुनि: ।प्रत्याह भगवच्चित्त: स्मयन्निव गतस्मय: ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-śuka uvācasa itthaṁ coditaḥ kṣattrātattva-jijñāsunā muniḥpratyāha bhagavac-cittaḥsmayann iva gata-smayaḥ Translation: Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, Maitreya, being thus agitated by the inquisitive Vidura, at first seemed astonished, but then he replied to him without hesitation, since he was fully God conscious. Purport: Since the great sage Maitreya was filled with God consciousness, he had no reason to be astonished at such contradictory questions by Vidura....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: एष ह्यशेषसत्त्वानामात्मांश: परमात्मन: ।आद्योऽवतारो यत्रासौ भूतग्रामो विभाव्यते ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: eṣa hy aśeṣa-sattvānāmātmāṁśaḥ paramātmanaḥādyo ’vatāro yatrāsaubhūta-grāmo vibhāvyate Translation: The gigantic universal form of the Supreme Lord is the first incarnation and plenary portion of the Supersoul. He is the Self of an unlimited number of living entities, and in Him rests the aggregate creation, which thus flourishes. Purport: The Supreme Lord expands Himself in two ways, by personal plenary expansions and separated minute expansions....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: यैस्तत्त्वभेदैरधिलोकनाथोलोकानलोकान् सह लोकपालान् ।अचीक्लृपद्यत्र हि सर्वसत्त्व-निकायभेदोऽधिकृत: प्रतीत: ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: yais tattva-bhedair adhiloka-nātholokān alokān saha lokapālānacīkḷpad yatra hi sarva-sattva-nikāya-bhedo ’dhikṛtaḥ pratītaḥ Translation: The Supreme King of all kings has created different planets and places of habitation where living entities are situated in terms of the modes of nature and work, and He has created their different kings and rulers....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: वाम ऊरावधिश्रित्य दक्षिणाङ्घ्रि सरोरुहम् ।अपाश्रितार्भकाश्वत्थमकृशं त्यक्तपिप्पलम् ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: vāma ūrāv adhiśrityadakṣiṇāṅghri-saroruhamapāśritārbhakāśvatthamakṛśaṁ tyakta-pippalam Translation: The Lord was sitting, taking rest against a young banyan tree, with His right lotus foot on His left thigh, and although He had left all household comforts, He looked quite cheerful in that posture. Purport: According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, the Lord’s sitting posture — keeping His back against the newly grown banyan tree — is also meaningful....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: आसां मुहूर्त एकस्मिन्नानागारेषु योषिताम् ।सविधं जगृहे पाणीननुरूप: स्वमायया ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: āsāṁ muhūrta ekasminnānāgāreṣu yoṣitāmsa-vidhaṁ jagṛhe pāṇīnanurūpaḥ sva-māyayā Translation: All those princesses were lodged in different apartments, and the Lord simultaneously assumed different bodily expansions exactly matching each and every princess. He accepted their hands in perfect rituals by His internal potency. Purport: In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.33) the Lord is described as follows in regard to His innumerable plenary expansions: “The Lord, Govinda, whom I worship, is the original Personality of Godhead....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: दुर्भगो बत लोकोऽयं यदवो नितरामपि ।ये संवसन्तो न विदुर्हरिं मीना इवोडुपम् ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: durbhago bata loko ’yaṁyadavo nitarām apiye saṁvasanto na vidurhariṁ mīnā ivoḍupam Translation: This universe with all its planets is most unfortunate. And even more unfortunate are the members of the Yadu dynasty because they could not identify Lord Hari as the Personality of Godhead, any more than the fish could identify the moon....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: द्यूते त्वधर्मेण जितस्य साधो:सत्यावलम्बस्य वनं गतस्य ।न याचतोऽदात्समयेन दायंतमोजुषाणो यदजातशत्रो: ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: dyūte tv adharmeṇa jitasya sādhoḥsatyāvalambasya vanaṁ gatasyana yācato ’dāt samayena dāyaṁtamo-juṣāṇo yad ajāta-śatroḥ Translation: Yudhiṣṭhira, who was born without any enemy, was unfairly defeated in gambling. But because he had taken the vow of truthfulness, he went off to the forest. When he came back in due course and begged the return of his rightful share of the kingdom, he was refused by Dhṛtarāṣṭra, who was overwhelmed by illusion....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: योऽध्यात्मिकोऽयं पुरुष: सोऽसावेवाधिदैविक: ।यस्तत्रोभयविच्छेद: पुरुषो ह्याधिभौतिक: ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: yo ’dhyātmiko ’yaṁ puruṣaḥso ’sāv evādhidaivikaḥyas tatrobhaya-vicchedaḥpuruṣo hy ādhibhautikaḥ Translation: The individual person possessing different instruments of senses is called the adhyātmic person, and the individual controlling deity of the senses is called adhidaivic. The embodiment seen on the eyeballs is called the adhibhautic person. Purport: The supreme controlling summum bonum is the Personality of Godhead in His plenary portion of Paramātmā, or the Supersoul manifestation....