Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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तेभ्यः सोऽसृजत्स्वीयं पुरं पुरुषमात्मवान्
तान्दृष्ट्वा ये पुरा सृष्टाः प्रशशंसुः प्रजापतिम्

tebhyaḥ so ’sṛjat svīyaṁ
puraṁ puruṣam ātmavān
tān dṛṣṭvā ye purā sṛṣṭāḥ
praśaśaṁsuḥ prajāpatim

WORD BY WORD

tebhyaḥ — to them; saḥ — Lord Brahmā; asṛjat — gave; svīyam — his own; puram — body; puruṣam — human; ātma-vān — self-possessed; tān — them; dṛṣṭvā — on seeing; ye — those who; purā — earlier; sṛṣṭāḥ — were created (the demigods, Gandharvas, etc, who were created earlier); praśaśaṁsuḥ — applauded; prajāpatim — Brahmā (the lord of created beings);

TRANSLATION

The self-possessed creator gave them his own human form. On seeing the Manus, those who had been created earlier — the demigods, the Gandharvas and so on — applauded Brahmā, the lord of the universe.

PURPORT

This verse has not purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda.

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