भूतानि विष्णो: सुरपूजितानि दुर्दर्शलिङ्गानि महाद्भुतानि । रक्षन्ति तद्भक्तिमत: परेभ्यो मत्तश्च मर्त्यानथ सर्वतश्च ॥ १८ ॥
bhutani visnoh sura-pujitani durdarsa-lingani mahadbhutani raksanti tad-bhaktimatah parebhyo mattas ca martyan atha sarvatas ca
- bhutani
- living entities or servants
- visnoh
- of Lord Visnu
- sura-pujitani
- who are worshiped by the demigods
- durdarsa-lingani
- possessing forms not easily seen
- maha-adbhutani
- greatly wonderful
- raksanti
- they protect
- tat-bhakti-matah
- the devotees of the Lord
- parebhyah
- from others who are inimical
- mattah
- from me (Yamaraja) and my order carriers
- ca
- and
- martyan
- the human beings
- atha
- thus
- sarvatah
- from everything
- ca
- and
The order carriers of Lord Visnu, who are worshiped even by the demigods, possess wonderful bodily features exactly like those of Visnu and are very rarely seen. The Visnudutas protect the devotees of the Lord from the hands of enemies, from envious persons and even from my jurisdiction, as well as from natural disturbances.