आसन् वर्णास्त्रयो ह्यस्य गृह्णतोऽनुयुगं तनू: । शुक्लो रक्तस्तथा पीत इदानीं कृष्णतां गत: ॥ १३ ॥
āsan varṇās trayo hy asya gṛhṇato ’nuyugaṁ tanūḥ śuklo raktas tathā pīta idānīṁ kṛṣṇatāṁ gataḥ
- āsan
- were assumed
- varṇāḥ trayaḥ
- three colors
- hi
- indeed
- asya
- of your son Kṛṣṇa
- gṛhṇataḥ
- accepting
- anuyugam 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
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. [In another Dvāpara-yuga, He appeared (as Lord Rāmacandra) in the color of śuka, a parrot. All such incarnations have now assembled in Kṛṣṇa.]