ananta-Å›ayyÄte tÄá¹…hÄ karila Å›ayana
sahasra mastaka tÄá¹…ra sahasra vadana
sahasra-caraṇa-hasta, sahasra-nayana
sarva-avatÄra-bÄ«ja, jagat-kÄraṇa
ananta-Å›ayyÄte - on Lord Ananta as a bed; tÄá¹…hÄ - there; karila Å›ayana - lay down; sahasra - thousands; mastaka - heads; tÄá¹…ra - His; sahasra vadana - thousands of faces; sahasra - thousands; caraṇa - legs; hasta - hands; sahasra-nayana - thousands of eyes; sarva-avatÄra-bÄ«ja - the seed of all incarnations; jagat-kÄraṇa - the cause of the material world.
He lay there with Ananta as His bed. Lord Ananta is a divine serpent having thousands of heads, thousands of faces, thousands of eyes and thousands of hands and feet. He is the seed of all incarnations and is the cause of the material world.
In the reservoir of water first created by the perspiration of GarbhodakaÅ›ÄyÄ« Viṣṇu, the Lord lies on the Åšeá¹£a plenary expansion of Viṣṇu, who is described in ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam and in the four Vedas as follows:
sahasra-śīrá¹£Ä puruá¹£aḥ sahasrÄká¹£aḥ sahasra-pÄt
sa bhÅ«miá¹ viÅ›vato vá¹›tvÄ- tyatiá¹£á¹had daÅ›Äá¹…gulam
The Viṣṇu form called Ananta-śayana has thousands of hands and legs and thousands of eyes, and He is the active generator of all the incarnations within the material world.
