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  "name":"SB 3.13.18",
  "h1":"SB 3.13.18",
  "label":"Text 18",
  "title":"Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.18",
  "description":"O sinless Vidura, all of a sudden, while Brahmā was engaged in thinking, a small form of a boar came out of his nostril. The measurement of the creature was not more than the upper portion of a thumb."

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SB 3.13.18

इत्यभिध्यायतो नासा विवरात्सहसानघ ।
वराहतोको निरगादङ्गुष्ठपरिमाणकः ॥१८॥

Text

ity abhidhyāyato nāsā-
vivarāt sahasānagha
varāha-toko niragād
aṅguṣṭha-parimāṇakaḥ

Synonyms

iti—thus; abhidhyāyataḥ—while thinking; nāsā-vivarāt—from the nostrils; sahasā—all of a sudden; anagha—O sinless one; varāha-tokaḥ—a minute form of Varāha (a boar); niragāt—came out; aṅguṣṭha—the upper portion of the thumb; parimāṇakaḥ—of the measurement.

Translation

O sinless Vidura, all of a sudden, while Brahmā was engaged in thinking, a small form of a boar came out of his nostril. The measurement of the creature was not more than the upper portion of a thumb.