Devanagari
ताविमौ वै भगवतो हरेरंशाविहागतौ ।
भारव्ययाय च भुव: कृष्णौ यदुकुरूद्वहौ ॥ ५९ ॥
Verse text
tāv imau vai bhagavato
harer aṁśāv ihāgatau
bhāra-vyayāya ca bhuvaḥ
kṛṣṇau yadu-kurūdvahau
Synonyms
tau
—
both
;
imau
—
these
;
vai
—
certainly
;
bhagavataḥ
—
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
;
hareḥ
—
of Hari
;
aṁśau
—
part and parcel expansion
;
iha
—
here (in this universe)
;
āgatau
—
has appeared
;
bhāra
—
vyayāya — for mitigation of the burden
;
ca
—
and
;
bhuvaḥ
—
of the world
;
kṛṣṇau
—
the two Kṛṣṇas (Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna)
;
yadu
—
kuru — udvahau — who are the best of the Yadu and Kuru dynasties respectively .
Translation
That Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, who is a partial expansion of Kṛṣṇa, has now appeared in the dynasties of Yadu and Kuru, in the forms of Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna respectively, to mitigate the burden of the world.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
These two portions of the Lord have entered Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, best of the Yadu and Kuru dynasties for relieving the earth of its burden.
Nara and Nārāyaṇa (subject), portions of the Lord, at the end of Dvāpara-yuga (iha), have attained the forms of Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna (object). The portions (aṁśas) have entered their aṁśīs. This is explained in the Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta (1.5.13):
karttārau tau hareraṁśau naranārāyaṇāv ṛṣī.
dvāparānte karmabhūtāv āyātau kṛṣṇa-phālgunau
Nara-Nārāyaṇa, the expansions of Viṣṇu, entered Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna at the end of Dvāpara- yuga.
Purport
Nārāyaṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Nara is a part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa. Thus the energy and the energetic together are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Maitreya informed Vidura that Nara, the portion of Nārāyaṇa, had appeared in the family of the Kurus and that Nārāyaṇa, the plenary expansion of Kṛṣṇa, had come as Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with the purpose of delivering suffering humanity from the pangs of material burdens. In other words, Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi was now present in the world in the forms of Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna.