भवान् परित्रातुमिहावतीर्णो धर्मं जनानां समयानुरूपम् । वेनापचारादवलुप्तमद्य तद्देहतो विष्णुकलासि वैन्य ॥ ३७ ॥
bhavan paritratum ihavatirno dharmam jananam samayanurupam venapacarad avaluptam adya tad-dehato visnu-kalasi vainya
- bhavan
- Your Majesty
- paritratum
- just to deliver
- iha
- in this world
- avatirnah
- incarnated
- dharmam
- religious system
- jananam
- of the people in general
- samaya-anurupam
- according to the time and circumstances
- vena-apacarat
- by the misdeeds of King Vena
- avaluptam
- almost vanished
- adya
- at the present moment
- tat
- his
- dehatah
- from the body
- visnu
- of Lord Visnu
- kala
- part of a plenary portion
- asi
- you are
- vainya
- O son of King Vena
O King Prthu, son of Vena, you are the part-and-parcel expansion of Lord Visnu. Due to the mischievous activities of King Vena, religious principles were almost lost. At that opportune moment you descended as the incarnation of Lord Visnu. Indeed, for the protection of religious principles you have appeared from the body of King Vena.