श्रीशुक उवाच सत्यं समीक्ष्याब्जभवो नखेन्दुभि- र्हतस्वधामद्युतिरावृतोऽभ्यगात् । मरीचिमिश्रा ऋषयो बृहद्व्रता: सनन्दनाद्या नरदेव योगिन: ॥ १ ॥
sri-suka uvaca satyam samiksyabja-bhavo nakhendubhir hata-svadhama-dyutir avrto ’bhyagat marici-misra rsayo brhad-vratah sanandanadya nara-deva yoginah
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said
- satyam
- the planet Satyaloka
- samiksya
- by observing
- abja-bhavah
- Lord Brahma, who appeared on the lotus flower
- nakha-indubhih
- by the effulgence of the nails
- hata
- having been reduced
- sva-dhama-dyutih
- the illumination of his own residence
- avrtah
- being covered
- abhyagat
- came
- marici-misrah
- with sages like Marici
- rsayah
- great saintly persons
- brhat-vratah
- all of them absolutely brahmacari
- sanandana-adyah
- like Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumara
- nara-deva
- O King
- yoginah
- greatly powerful mystics
Sukadeva Gosvami continued: When Lord Brahma, who was born of a lotus flower, saw that the effulgence of his residence, Brahmaloka, had been reduced by the glaring effulgence from the toenails of Lord Vamanadeva, he approached the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Brahma was accompanied by all the great sages, headed by Marici, and by yogis like Sanandana, but in the presence of that glaring effulgence, O King, even Lord Brahma and his associates seemed insignificant.