इत्यद्धा मां समादिश्य गर्गे च स्वगृहं गते । मन्ये नारायणस्यांशं कृष्णमक्लिष्टकारिणम् ॥ २३ ॥
ity addhā māṁ samādiśya garge ca sva-gṛhaṁ gate manye nārāyaṇasyāṁśaṁ kṛṣṇam akliṣṭa-kāriṇam
- iti
- thus speaking
- addhā
- directly
- mām
- me
- samādiśya
- advising
- garge
- Gargācārya
- ca
- and
- sva-gṛham
- to his home
- gate
- going
- manye
- I consider
- nārāyaṇasya
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa
- aṁśam
- an empowered expansion
- kṛṣṇam
- Kṛṣṇa
- akliṣṭa-kāriṇam
- who keeps us free from misery
[Nanda Mahārāja continued:] After Garga Ṛṣi spoke these words to me and returned home, I began to consider that Kṛṣṇa, who keeps us free from trouble, is actually an expansion of Lord Nārāyaṇa.