नान्तं विदाम्यहममी मुनयोऽग्रजास्ते मायाबलस्य पुरुषस्य कुतोऽवरा ये । गायन् गुणान् दशशतानन आदिदेव: शेषोऽधुनापि समवस्यति नास्य पारम् ॥ ४१ ॥
nantam vidamy aham ami munayo ’gra-jas te maya-balasya purusasya kuto ’vara ye gayan gunan dasa-satanana adi-devah seso ’dhunapi samavasyati nasya param
- na
- never
- antam
- end
- vidami
- do I know
- aham
- myself
- ami
- and all those
- munayah
- great sages
- agra-jah
- born prior to you
- te
- you
- maya-balasya
- of the omnipotent
- purusasya
- of the Personality of Godhead
- kutah
- what to speak of others
- avarah
- born after us
- ye
- those
- gayan
- by singing
- gunan
- the qualities
- dasa-sata-ananah
- one who has ten hundred faces
- adi-devah
- the first incarnation of the Lord
- sesah
- known as Sesa
- adhuna
- until now
- api
- even
- samavasyati
- can achieve
- na
- not
- asya
- of Him
- param
- limit
Neither I nor all the sages born before you know fully the omnipotent Personality of Godhead. So what can others, who are born after us, know about Him? Even the first incarnation of the Lord, namely Sesa, has not been able to reach the limit of such knowledge, although He is describing the qualities of the Lord with ten hundred faces.