Devanagari
मया यथानूक्तमवादि ते हरे:
कृतावतारस्य सुमित्र चेष्टितम् ।
यथा हिरण्याक्ष उदारविक्रमो
महामृधे क्रीडनवन्निराकृत: ॥ ३२ ॥
Verse text
mayā yathānūktam avādi te hareḥ
kṛtāvatārasya sumitra ceṣṭitam
yathā hiraṇyākṣa udāra-vikramo
mahā-mṛdhe krīḍanavan nirākṛtaḥ
Synonyms
mayā
—
by me
;
yathā
—
as
;
anūktam
—
told
;
avādi
—
was explained
;
te
—
to you
;
hareḥ
—
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
;
kṛta
—
avatārasya — who assumed the incarnation
;
sumitra
—
O dear Vidura
;
ceṣṭitam
—
the activities
;
yathā
—
as
;
hiraṇyākṣaḥ
—
Hiraṇyākṣa
;
udāra
—
very extensive
;
vikramaḥ
—
prowess
;
mahā
—
mṛdhe — in a great fight
;
krīḍana
—
vat — like a plaything
;
nirākṛtaḥ
—
was killed .
Translation
Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, I have explained to you the Personality of Godhead’s coming down as the first boar incarnation and killing in a great fight a demon of unprecedented prowess as if he were just a plaything. This has been narrated by me as I heard it from my predecessor spiritual master.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
I have recited to you the story of the Lord as the boar avatāra in which Hiraṇyākṣa was killed by the Lord in battle like a play thing, just as I have heard from the guru.
Yathānūktam means “I have said what the guru has said, and did not go beyond that.” Or it can mean “I have gained the meaning of what the guru said (uktam), and then (anu), I have spoken (avādi) it to you.” O Vidura! How are the activities recognized? In that activity, the demon was killed by the Lord in battle.
Purport
Here the sage Maitreya admits that he explained the incident of the killing of Hiraṇyākṣa by the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a straight narration; he did not manufacture anything or add interpretation, but explained whatever he had heard from his spiritual master. Thus he accepted as bona fide the system of
paramparā,
or receiving the transcendental message in disciplic succession. Unless received by this bona fide process of hearing from a spiritual master, the statement of an
ācārya
or preceptor cannot be valid.
It is also stated here that although the demon Hiraṇyākṣa was unlimited in prowess, he was just like a doll for the Lord. A child breaks so many dolls without real endeavor. Similarly, although a demon may be very powerful and extraordinary in the eyes of an ordinary man in the material world, to the Lord, killing such a demon is no difficulty. He can kill millions of demons as simply as a child plays with dolls and breaks them.