CC Madhya 20.175
Madhya-līlā, Chapter 20, Text 175
বৈভবপ্রকাশ যৈছে দেবকী-তনুজ ।
দ্বিভুজ-স্বরূপ কভু, কভু হয় চতুর্ভুজ ॥ ১৭৫ ॥
দ্বিভুজ-স্বরূপ কভু, কভু হয় চতুর্ভুজ ॥ ১৭৫ ॥
vaibhava-prakāśa yaiche devakī-tanuja
dvibhuja-svarūpa kabhu, kabhu haya caturbhuja
dvibhuja-svarūpa kabhu, kabhu haya caturbhuja
Word by word
vaibhava-prakāśa — the feature of vaibhava-prakāśa; yaiche — just as; devakī-tanuja — the son of Devakī; dvi-bhuja — two-handed; svarūpa — form; kabhu — sometimes; kabhu — sometimes; haya — is; catur-bhuja — four-handed.
Translation
“An example of vaibhava-prakāśa is the son of Devakī. He sometimes has two hands and sometimes four hands.”
Purport
When Lord Kṛṣṇa took His birth, He appeared outside the womb as four-handed Viṣṇu. Then Devakī and Vasudeva offered their prayers to Him and asked Him to assume His two-handed form. The Lord immediately assumed His two-handed form and ordered that He be transferred to Gokula, on the other side of the river Yamunā.