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CC Madhya 20.167

Bengali

‘প্রাভব-বৈভব’-রূপে দ্বিবিধ প্রকাশে ।
এক-বপু বহু রূপ যৈছে হৈল রাসে ॥ ১৬৭ ॥

Text

‘prābhava-vaibhava’-rūpe dvividha prakāśe
eka-vapu bahu rūpa yaiche haila rāse

Synonyms

prābhava — prābhava; vaibhava — vaibhava; rūpe — in forms; dvi-vidha prakāśe — twofold manifestations; eka-vapu — the same original form; bahu rūpa — expanded into unlimited numbers; yaiche — like; haila — it was; rāse — while dancing in the rāsa dance with the gopīs.

Translation

“In His original form, Kṛṣṇa manifests Himself in two features — prābhava and vaibhava. He expands His one original form into many, as He did during the rāsa-līlā dance.