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ambujam ambuni jatam kvacid api na jatam ambujad ambu
mura-bhidi tad-viparitam padambhojan maha-nadi jata
SYNONYMS
ambujam—lotus flower; ambuni—in the water; jatam—is grown; kvacit—at any time; api—certainly; na—not; jatam—grown; ambujat—from a lotus flower; ambu—water; mura-bhidi—in Krsna, the killer of Murasura; tat-viparitam—just the opposite of that; pada-ambhojat—from the lotus flower of His feet; maha-nadi—the great river; jata—has grown " ’Everyone knows that lotus flowers grow in the water but water never grows from a lotus.
All such contradictions, however, are wonderfully possible in Krsna: the great river Ganges has grown from His lotus feet.’