मैत्रेय उवाच तस्मा एवं जगत्स्रष्ट्रे प्रधानपुरुषेश्वर: । व्यज्येदं स्वेन रूपेण कञ्जनाभस्तिरोदधे ॥ ४४ ॥
maitreya uvaca tasma evam jagat-srastre pradhana-purusesvarah vyajyedam svena rupena kanja-nabhas tirodadhe
- maitreyah uvaca
- the sage Maitreya said
- tasmai
- unto him
- evam
- thus
- jagat-srastre
- unto the creator of the universe
- pradhana-purusa-isvarah
- the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead
- vyajya idam
- after instructing this
- svena
- in His person
- rupena
- by the form
- kanja-nabhah
- the Personality of Godhead Narayana
- tirodadhe
- disappeared.
The sage Maitreya said: After instructing Brahma, the creator of the universe, to expand, the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead in His personal form as Narayana, disappeared.