Devanagari
ब्रह्मा तदुपधार्याथ सह देवैस्तया सह
जगाम सत्रिनयनस्तीरं क्षीरपयोनिधे: ॥ १९ ॥
Verse text
brahmā tad-upadhāryātha
saha devais tayā saha
jagāma sa-tri-nayanas
tīraṁ kṣīra-payo-nidheḥ
Synonyms
brahmā
—
Lord Brahmā
;
tat
—
upadhārya — understanding everything rightly
;
atha
—
thereafter
;
saha
—
with
;
devaiḥ
—
the demigods
;
tayā saha
—
with mother earth
;
jagāma
—
approached
;
sa
—
tri — nayanaḥ — with Lord Śiva, who has three eyes
;
tīram
—
the shore
;
kṣīra
—
payaḥ — nidheḥ — of the Ocean of Milk .
Translation
Thereafter, having heard of the distress of mother earth, Lord Brahmā, with mother earth, Lord Śiva and all the other demigods, approached the shore of the Ocean of Milk.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Thereafter, having heard of the distress of mother earth, Lord Brahmā, with mother earth, Lord Śiva and all the other demigods, approached the shore of the ocean of milk.
KB 10.1.19
After hearing this, Lord Brahmā became much aggrieved, and he at once started for the ocean of milk, where Lord Viṣṇu resides. Lord Brahmā was accompanied by all the demigods, headed by Lord Śiva, and Bhūmi also followed.
Purport
After Lord Brahmā understood the precarious condition of the earth, he first visited the demigods headed by Lord Indra, who are in charge of the various affairs of this universe, and Lord Śiva, who is responsible for annihilation. Both maintenance and annihilation go on perpetually, under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated in
Bhagavad-gītā
(4.8)
,
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām.
Those who are obedient to the laws of God are protected by different servants and demigods, whereas those who are undesirable are vanquished by Lord Śiva. Lord Brahmā first met all the demigods, including Lord Śiva. Then, along with mother earth, they went to the shore of the Ocean of Milk, where Lord Viṣṇu lies on a white island, Śvetadvīpa.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Brahmā went immediately (atha), to bring about the appearance of the Lord. Atha also indicates auspiciousness. He took Śiva because Śiva was very dear to the Lord and could particularly help plead his case. They went to the shore of the milk ocean which was protected by a form of Viṣṇu. This is understood from the Padma Purāṇa and Viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma-stotra. Viṣṇuḥ kṣīrabdhi-mandiraḥ: Viṣṇu has an abode in the Milk Ocean. They went to the shore, not to Viṣṇu’s palace, since that was difficult to enter. This is explained in Mokṣa-dharma, Nārāyaṇīya.
Kṛṣṇa, known as Vāsudeva, first member of the caturvyūha, is situated in the highest place Goloka. A portion of a portion of Saṅkarṣaṇa, second member of the caturvyūha, is Mahāviṣṇu, creator of mahat-tattva. Garbhodakaśāyī is an expansion of Aniruddha, fourth member of the caturvyūha. Each Aniruddha is situated in one universe which is situated in a miniscule hair hole of Mahāviṣṇu with countless other universes. Kṣirodakaśāyī, third member of the caturvyūha, is situated in each living entity. He is a portion of a portion of Pradyumna and is antaryāmī of Brahmā. Sometimes these caturvyūha forms act as āvaraṇa deities to Kṛṣṇa or Govinda in Goloka in the spiritual sky.