अंशांशेन चतुर्धागात् पुत्रत्वं प्रार्थितः सुरैः ।
रामलक्ष्मणभरतशत्रुघ्ना इति संज्ञया ॥२॥
tasyÄpi bhagavÄn eá¹£a
sÄká¹£Äd brahmamayo hariḥ
amÅ›ÄmÅ›ena caturdhÄgÄt
putratvaá¹ prÄrthitaḥ suraiḥ
rÄma-laká¹£maṇa-bharata-
Å›atrughnÄ iti saá¹jñayÄ
tasya - of him, MahÄrÄja DaÅ›aratha; api - also; bhagavÄn - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; eá¹£aḥ - all of them; sÄká¹£Ät - directly; brahma-mayaḥ - the Supreme Parabrahman, the Absolute Truth; hariḥ - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; amÅ›a-amÅ›ena - by an expansion of a plenary portion; caturdhÄ - by fourfold expansions; agÄt - accepted; putratvam - sonhood; prÄrthitaḥ - being prayed for; suraiḥ - by the demigods; rÄma - Lord RÄmacandra; laká¹£maṇa - Lord Laká¹£maṇa; bharata - Lord Bharata; Å›atrughnÄḥ - and Lord Åšatrughna; iti - thus; saá¹jñayÄ - by different names.
Being prayed for by the demigods, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth Himself, directly appeared with His expansion and expansions of the expansion. Their holy names were RÄma, Laká¹£maṇa, Bharata and Åšatrughna. These celebrated incarnations thus appeared in four forms as the sons of MahÄrÄja DaÅ›aratha.
Lord RÄmacandra and His brothers, Laká¹£maṇa, Bharata and Åšatrughna, are all viṣṇu-tattva, not jÄ«va-tattva. The Supreme Personality of Godhead expands into many, many forms. Advaitam acyutam anÄdim ananta-rÅ«pam. Although they are one and the same, viṣṇu-tattva has many forms and incarnations. As confirmed in the Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.39), rÄmÄdi-mÅ«rtiá¹£u kalÄ-niyamena tiá¹£á¹han. The Lord is situated in many forms, such as RÄma, Laká¹£maṇa, Bharata and Åšatrughna, and these forms may exist in any part of His creation. All these forms exist permanently, eternally, as individual Personalities of Godhead, and they resemble many candles, all equally powerful. Lord RÄmacandra, Laká¹£maṇa, Bharata and Åšatrughna, who, being viṣṇu-tattva, are all equally powerful, became the sons of MahÄrÄja DaÅ›aratha in response to prayers by the demigods.
