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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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मैत्रेय उवाच त एवमुत्सन्नभया उरुक्रमे कृतावनामाः प्रययुस्त्रिविष्टपम् । सहस्रशीर्षापि ततो गरुत्मता मधोर्वनं भृत्यदिदृक्षया गतः ॥१॥
maitreya uvāca ta evam utsanna-bhayā urukrame kṛtāvanāmāḥ prayayus tri-viṣṭapam sahasraśīrṣāpi tato garutmatā madhor vanaṁ bhṛtya-didṛkṣayā gataḥ
WORD BY WORD
maitreyaḥ uvāca the great sage Maitreya continued; te the demigods; evam thus; utsanna-bhayāḥ being freed from all fears; urukrame unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose actions are uncommon; kṛta-avanāmāḥ they offered their obeisances; prayayuḥ they returned; tri-viṣṭapam to their respective heavenly planets; sahasra-śīrṣā api also the Personality of Godhead known as Sahasraśīrṣā; tataḥ from there; garutmatā getting up on the back of Garuḍa; madhoḥ vanam the forest known as Madhuvana; bhṛtya servant; didṛkṣayā wishing to see him; gataḥ went.;
TRANSLATION
| The great sage Maitreya told Vidura: When the demigods were thus reassured by the Personality of Godhead, they were freed from all fears, and after offering their obeisances they returned to their heavenly planets. Then the Lord, who is nondifferent from the Sahasraśīrṣā incarnation, got on the back of Garuḍa, who carried Him to the Madhuvana Forest to see His servant Dhruva.
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PURPORT
| The word sahasraśīrṣā refers to the Personality of Godhead known as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Although the Lord appeared as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, He has been described here as Sahasraśīrṣā Viṣṇu because He is nondifferent from Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. According to Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta, the Sahasraśīrṣā Personality of Godhead who appeared at that time was the incarnation known as Pṛśnigarbha. He created the planet known as Dhruvaloka for the habitation of Dhruva Mahārāja.
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