SB 1.18.19

Synonyms

kutaḥ punaḥ — what then need be said [kiṁ punar vaktavyam¹⁶²]; gṛṇataḥ — of a person who utters [or sings (kīrtayataḥ puṁsaḥ)¹⁶³]; nāma — the name; tasya — of He; mahat-tama-ekānta-parāyaṇasya — [who is] the exclusive and ultimate refuge of the most highly evolved devotees; bhagavān — Bhagavān; yaḥ — who; ananta-śaktiḥ — being intrinsically self-endowed with limitless potencies [anantāḥ śaktayo yasya]; ananta — [is] unlimited [by His very own essential nature (svato’py anantaḥ); or by His constitutional state of being (svarūpeṇa)¹⁶⁴]; yam — [and] who; mahat-guṇatvāt — by virtue of His existential condition of being the ground of unlimited divine qualities as well [(yaṁ ca mahad-guṇatvād ananta-guṇatvāt), such as truth, wisdom, and infinity, as declared in Vedānta (satyaṁ jñānam anantam ityādayo vedāntāḥ);¹⁶⁵ alternatively, the compound mahad-guṇaḥ can be taken to mean, “He whose divine qualities become manifested in all greatly realized devotees” (mahatsu guṇā yasya saḥ), and the suffix -tva signifies the existential condition of being the source of such limitlessly extended qualities (tasya bhāvas tattvam), by virtue of that existential condition (tasmāt), He]; āhuḥ — is known; anantam — as Ananta.

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