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SB 8.7.10

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 10

surāsurendrair bhuja-vīrya-vepitaṁ
paribhramantaṁ girim aṅga pṛṣṭhataḥ
bibhrat tad-āvartanam ādi-kacchapo
mene 'ṅga-kaṇḍūyanam aprameyaḥ


SYNONYMS

sura-asura-indraiḥ — by the leaders of the demons and the demigods; bhuja-vīrya — by the strength of their arms; vepitam — moving; paribhramantam — rotating; girim — the mountain; aṅga — O Mahārāja Parīkṣit; pṛṣṭhataḥ — on His back; bibhrat — bore; tat — of that; āvartanam — the rotating; ādi-kacchapaḥ — as the supreme original tortoise; mene — considered; aṅga-kaṇḍūyanam — as pleasing scratching of the body; aprameyaḥ — unlimited.


TRANSLATION

O King, when the demigods and demons, by the strength of their arms, rotated Mandara Mountain on the back of the extraordinary tortoise, the tortoise accepted the rolling of the mountain as a means of scratching His body, and thus He felt a pleasing sensation.


PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always the unlimited. Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His body as a tortoise, held on His back the largest of mountains, Mandara-parvata, He did not feel any inconvenience. On the contrary, He apparently felt some itching, and thus the rotation of the mountain was certainly very pleasing.



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