dvÄpare bhagavÄñ Å›yÄmaḥ
pÄ«ta-vÄsÄ nijÄyudhaḥ
Å›rÄ«vatsÄdibhir aá¹…kaiÅ› ca
lakṣaṇair upalakṣitaḥ
3 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: CC(3)
dvÄpare - in DvÄpara-yuga; bhagavÄn - the Supreme Lord; Å›yÄmaḥ - dark blue; pÄ«ta-vÄsÄḥ - wearing a yellow garment; nija-Äyudhaḥ - having His own particular weapons (the disc, club, conchshell and lotus flower); Å›rÄ«vatsa-Ädibhiḥ - by ÅšrÄ«vatsa and others; aá¹…kaiḥ - bodily marks; ca - and; laká¹£aṇaiḥ - by ornaments; upalaká¹£itaḥ - characterized.
In DvÄpara-yuga the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears with a dark blue complexion, wearing yellow garments. The Lord’s transcendental body is marked in this incarnation with ÅšrÄ«vatsa and other distinctive ornaments, and He manifests His personal weapons.
The Lord’s transcendental body in DvÄpara-yuga can be compared to the color of a dark blue flower. The Lord exhibits His personal transcendental weapons such as SudarÅ›ana cakra, and all of the limbs of His body, especially His hands and feet, are decorated with auspicious symbols such as a lotus flower and a flag. And on His chest, the Lord manifests the Kaustubha jewel as well as the auspicious ÅšrÄ«vatsa, a whorl of hair curling from left to right on the right side of the Lord’s chest. Actually, such auspicious marks as Kaustubha and ÅšrÄ«vatsa, as well as the weapons of the Lord, are present in all of the viṣṇu-tattva incarnations. ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ« explains that these universal characteristics of the Lord mentioned by the sage KarabhÄjana are indications of the Kṛṣṇa avatÄra. Because Kṛṣṇa is the source of all incarnations, all of the symptoms of all other incarnations are to be found in His transcendental body.
