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0074/SB 8-1-2

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Painting title	Gajendra Regains His Spiritual Form
Artists	Jadurani Devi Dasi
Keywords	Crocodile Elephant Visnu Gajendra Garuda Huhu Demigods Indradyumna
Keywords 2017	Indradyumna Elephant Gajendra Crocodile Visnu Huhu Demigods Garuda Suras Caranas Siddhas Dead Spiritual body Siva Gajendra-moksana Liberation Cakra Beheading
Used in books	SB Canto 8
Keywords status	Updated
Info status	In progress
Source catalog	Art Catalog updated

File info

Image height	6 414 px
Image width	4 842 px
Location	Art 0074
Filename	0074/SB 8-1-2
Colorspace	LAB
File size	88.90 MB

Physical painting info

Medium	oil
Substrate	canvas
Current location	ISKCON New York

Legal info

Copyright owner	BBT
Year	1974
First publication year	1974

Picture section(s)

EN SB 8.1 1976 SB Canto 8

Captions

Language	Caption
English	When the Lord severed its head from its body, the crocodile assumed a beautiful form as a Gandharva. Even greater was Gajendra's blessing: liberation from birth and death, and a form like the Lord's.
English	Seeing Gajendra in such an aggrieved position, the unborn Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, immediately got down from the back of Garuḍa by His causeless mercy and pulled the King of the elephants, along with the crocodile, out of the water. Then, in the presence of all the demigods, the Lord severed the crocodile’s mouth from its body with His disc, thus freeing Gajendra. At once the crocodile assumed a very beautiful form as a Gandharva. In his previous life he had been King Hūhū, the best of the Gandharvas, but Devala Muni cursed him to become a crocodile. Now, having been delivered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he regained his original form. Gajendra’s good fortune was even greater, for he had been touched directly by the hands of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and this immediately freed him of all material ignorance and bondage. Thus he received the salvation of sārūpya-mukti, by which he achieved the same bodily features as the Lord, being dressed in yellow garments and possessing four hands.

Language

Caption

English

When the Lord severed its head from its body, the crocodile assumed a beautiful form as a Gandharva. Even greater was Gajendra's blessing: liberation from birth and death, and a form like the Lord's.

English

Seeing Gajendra in such an aggrieved position, the unborn Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, immediately got down from the back of Garuḍa by His causeless mercy and pulled the King of the elephants, along with the crocodile, out of the water. Then, in the presence of all the demigods, the Lord severed the crocodile’s mouth from its body with His disc, thus freeing Gajendra. At once the crocodile assumed a very beautiful form as a Gandharva. In his previous life he had been King Hūhū, the best of the Gandharvas, but Devala Muni cursed him to become a crocodile. Now, having been delivered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he regained his original form. Gajendra’s good fortune was even greater, for he had been touched directly by the hands of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and this immediately freed him of all material ignorance and bondage. Thus he received the salvation of sārūpya-mukti, by which he achieved the same bodily features as the Lord, being dressed in yellow garments and possessing four hands.