pūrvavat likhi yabe guṇāvatāra-gaṇa
asaṅkhya saṅkhyā tāṅra, nā haya gaṇana

 pūrva-vat - as previously; likhi - I write; yabe - when; guṇa-avatāra-gaṇa - incarnations of the material modes of nature; asaṅkhya - innumerable; saṅkhya - counting; tāṅra - of them; nā haya gaṇana - not actually countable.


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“As stated before when I described the incarnations of the material modes [guṇa-avatāras], one should consider that these incarnations also are unlimited and that no one can count them.

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