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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.22
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 22
- dṛṣṭo 'ṅguṣṭha-śiro-mātraḥ
- kṣaṇād gaṇḍa-śilā-samaḥ
- api svid bhagavān eṣa
- yajño me khedayan manaḥ
dṛṣṭaḥjust seen — just seen; aṅguṣṭhathumb — thumb; śiraḥtip — tip; mātraḥonly — only; kṣaṇātimmediately — immediately; gaṇḍalarge stone-śilālarge stone — large stone; samaḥlike — like; apiwhether svitwhether — whether; bhagavānthe Personality of Godhead — the Personality of Godhead; eṣaḥthis — this; yajñaḥViṣṇu — Viṣṇu; memy — my; khedayanperturbing — perturbing; manaḥmind — mind.
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?
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.