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TEXT 27 uccaihsravasam asvanam
SYNONYMS  uccaihsravasam--Uccaihsrava;
asvanam--among horses; viddhi--know; mam--Me; amrta-udbhavam--produced
from the churning of the ocean; airavatam--Airavata; gaja-indranam--of
elephants; naranam--among human beings; ca--and; nara-adhipam--the
king.
TRANSLATION Of horses
know Me to be Uccaihsrava, who rose out of the ocean, born of the elixir
of immortality; of lordly elephants I am Airavata, and among men I am the
monarch.
PURPORT The devotee
demigods and the demons (asuras) once took a sea journey. On this
journey, nectar and poison were produced, and Lord Siva drank the poison.
From the nectar were produced many entities, of which there was a horse
named Uccaihsrava. Another animal produced from the nectar was an elephant
named Airavata. Because these two animals were produced from nectar, they
have special significance, and they are representatives of Krsna.
Amongst
the human beings, the king is the representative of Krsna because Krsna
is the maintainer of the universe, and the kings, who are appointed on
account of their godly qualifications, are maintainers of their kingdoms.
Kings like Maharaja Yudhisthira, Maharaja Pariksit and Lord Rama were all
highly righteous kings who always thought of the citizens' welfare. In
Vedic literature, the king is considered to be the representative of God.
In this age, however, with the corruption of the principles of religion,
monarchy decayed and is now finally abolished. It is to be understood that
in the past, however, people were more happy under righteous kings.
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