Tortoise incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead

Expressions researched:
"Lord Tortoise, the incarnation of Godhead" |"incarnation as a tortoise" |"incarnation of a gigantic tortoise" |"incarnation of a tortoise" |"incarnation of tortoise" |"tortoise incarnation"

SB Canto 1

The shell of Lord Tortoise, the incarnation of Godhead, became the resting place (pivot) of the hill in the seawater.

SB 1.3.16, Translation and Purport:

The eleventh incarnation of the Lord took the form of a tortoise whose shell served as a pivot for the Mandarācala Hill, which was being used as a churning rod by the theists and atheists of the universe.

Once both the atheists and the theists were engaged in producing nectar from the sea so that all of them could become deathless by drinking it. At that time the Mandarācala Hill was used as the churning rod, and the shell of Lord Tortoise, the incarnation of Godhead, became the resting place (pivot) of the hill in the seawater.