utká¹£ipta-vÄlaḥ kha-caraḥ kaá¹horaḥ
saá¹Ä vidhunvan khara-romaÅ›a-tvak
khurÄhatÄbhraḥ sita-daá¹á¹£á¹ra Ä«ká¹£Ä-
jyotir babhÄse bhagavÄn mahÄ«dhraḥ
utká¹£ipta-vÄlaḥ - slashing with the tail; kha-caraḥ - in the sky; kaá¹horaḥ - very hard; saá¹Äḥ - hairs on the shoulder; vidhunvan - quivering; khara - sharp; romaÅ›a-tvak - skin full of hairs; khura-Ähata - struck by the hooves; abhraḥ - the clouds; sita-daá¹á¹£á¹raḥ - white tusks; Ä«ká¹£Ä - glance; jyotiḥ - luminous; babhÄse - began to emit an effulgence; bhagavÄn - the Personality of Godhead; mahÄ«-dhraḥ - the supporter of the world.
When the Lord is offered prayers by His devotees, His transcendental activities are described. Here are some of the transcendental features of Lord Boar. As the residents of the upper three planetary systems offered their prayers to the Lord, it is understood that His body expanded throughout the sky, beginning from the topmost planet, Brahmaloka, or Satyaloka. It is stated in the Brahma-saá¹hitÄ that His eyes are the sun and the moon; therefore His very glance over the sky was as illuminating as the sun or the moon. The Lord is described herein as mahÄ«dhraḥ, which means either a “big mountain†or the “sustainer of the earth.†In other words, the Lord’s body was as big and hard as the HimÄlayan Mountains; otherwise how was it possible that He kept the entire earth on the support of His white tusks? The poet Jayadeva, a great devotee of the Lord, has sung of the incident in his prayers for the incarnations:
vasati daÅ›ana-Å›ikhare dharaṇī tava lagnÄ
Å›aÅ›ini kalaá¹…ka-kaleva nimagnÄ
keśava dhṛta-śūkara-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare
“All glories to Lord KeÅ›ava [Kṛṣṇa], who appeared as the boar. The earth was held between His tusks, which appeared like the scars on the moon.â€