वर्णास्त्रय: किलास्यासन् गृह्णतोऽनुयुगं तनू: । शुक्लो रक्तस्तथा पीत इदानीं कृष्णतां गत: ॥ १६ ॥
varṇās trayaḥ kilāsyāsan gṛhṇato ’nu-yugaṁ tanūḥ śuklo raktas tathā pīta idānīṁ kṛṣṇatāṁ gataḥ
- varṇāḥ trayaḥ
- three colors
- kila
- indeed
- asya
- by your son Kṛṣṇa
- āsan
- were assumed
- gṛhṇataḥ
- accepting
- anu-yugam tanūḥ
- transcendental bodies according to the different yugas
- śuklaḥ
- sometimes white
- raktaḥ
- sometimes red
- tathā
- as well as
- pītaḥ
- sometimes yellow
- idānīm kṛṣṇatām gataḥ
- at the present moment He has assumed a blackish color
[Garga Muni had said:] Your son Kṛṣṇa appears as an incarnation in every millennium. In the past He assumed three different colors — white, red and yellow — and now He has appeared in a blackish color.