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CC Madhya 20.330



His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 330

śukla-rakta-kṛṣṇa-pīta—krame cāri varṇa
cāri varṇa dhari’ kṛṣṇa karena yuga-dharma


SYNONYMS

śukla — white; rakta — red; kṛṣṇa — black; pīta — yellow; krame — one after another; cāri varṇa — four colors; cāri varṇa dhari’ — accepting these four colors; kṛṣṇa — Lord Kṛṣṇa; karena yuga-dharma — manifests His pastimes in different millenniums.


TRANSLATION

“In the four yugas—Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali—the Lord incarnates in four colors: white, red, black and yellow respectively. These are the colors of the incarnations in different millenniums.