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CC Madhya 21.67

Bengali

দশ-বিশ-শত-সহস্র-অযুত-লক্ষ-বদন ।
কোট্যর্বুদ মুখ কারো, না যায় গণন ॥ ৬৭ ॥

Text

daśa-biśa-śata-sahasra-ayuta-lakṣa-vadana
koṭy-arbuda mukha kāro, nā yāya gaṇana

Synonyms

daśa — ten; biśa — twenty; śata — hundred; sahasra — thousand; ayuta — ten thousand; lakṣa — a hundred thousand; vadana — faces; koṭi — ten million; arbuda — a hundred million; mukha — faces; kāro — of some of them; nā yāya gaṇana — not possible to count.

Translation

“These Brahmās had different numbers of heads. Some had ten heads, some twenty, some a hundred, some a thousand, some ten thousand, some a hundred thousand, some ten million and others a hundred million. No one can count the number of faces they had.