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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.12.11

విధూయ తదమేయాత్మా భగవాన్ధర్మగుబ్ విభు: । మిషతో దశమాసస్య తత్రైవాన్తర్దధే హరి: ॥ ౧౧ ॥
vidhūya tad ameyātmā
[vidhooya tad ameyaatmaa]
bhagavān dharma-gub vibhuḥ
[bhagavaan dharma-gub vibhuh]
miṣato daśamāsasya
[mishato dashamaasasya]
tatraivāntardadhe hariḥ
[tatraivaantardadhe harih]
vidhūya — having completely washed off tat — that ameyātmā — the all-pervading Supersoul bhagavān — the Personality of Godhead dharma-gup — the protector of righteousness vibhuḥ — the Supreme miṣataḥ — while observing daśamāsasya — of one who is dressed by all directions tatra eva — then and there antaḥ — out of sight dadhe — became hariḥ — the Lord.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
vidhūya tad ameyātmā
vidhūya
having completely washed off
tat
that
ameyātmā
the all-pervading Supersoul
bhagavān dharma-gub vibhuḥ
bhagavān
the Personality of Godhead
dharma-gup
the protector of righteousness
vibhuḥ
the Supreme
miṣato daśamāsasya
miṣataḥ
while observing
daśamāsasya
of one who is dressed by all directions
tatraivāntardadhe hariḥ
tatra eva
then and there
antaḥ
out of sight
dadhe
became
hariḥ
the Lord.
While thus being observed by the child, the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul of everyone and the protector of the righteous, who stretches in all directions and who is unlimited by time and space, disappeared at once.

Child Parīkṣit was not observing a living being who is limited by time and space. There is a gulf of difference between the Lord and the individual living being. The Lord is mentioned herein as the supreme living being unlimited by time and space. Every living being is limited by time and space. Even though a living being is qualitatively one with the Lord, quantitatively there is a great difference between the Supreme Soul and the common individual soul. In the Bhagavad-gītā both the living beings and the Supreme Being are said to be all-pervading ( yena sarvam idaṁ tatam ), yet there is a difference between these two kinds of all-pervasiveness. A common living being or soul can be all-pervading within his own limited body, but the supreme living being is all-pervading in all space and all time. A common living being cannot extend its influence over another common living being by its all-pervasiveness, but the Supreme Supersoul, the Personality of Godhead, is unlimitedly able to exert His influence over all places and all times and over all living beings. And because He is all-pervasive, unlimited by time and space, He can appear even within the womb of the mother of child Parīkṣit. He is mentioned herein as the protector of the righteous. Anyone who is a surrendered soul unto the Supreme is righteous, and he is specifically protected by the Lord in all circumstances. The Lord is the indirect protector of the unrighteous also, for He rectifies their sins through His external potency. The Lord is mentioned herein as one who is dressed in the ten directions. This means dressed with garments on ten sides, up and down. He is present everywhere and can appear and disappear at His will from everywhere and anywhere. His disappearance from the sight of the child Parīkṣit does not mean that He appeared on the spot from any other place. He was present there, and even after His disappearance He was there, although invisible to the eyes of the child. This material covering of the effulgent firmament is also something like a womb of the mother nature, and we are all put into the womb by the Lord, the father of all living beings. He is present everywhere, even in this material womb of mother Durgā, and those who are deserving can see the Lord.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The Lord, maintaining his reputation of being affectionate to his devotees, inconceivable in form, and also a thief, having destroyed the brahmāstra, disappeared at that spot from the sight of the child ten months in the womb.
Commentary

Dharmagup means “the Lord who maintains his quality of being affectionate to his devotee.” He was seen by Parīkṣit who was just about to be born, being ten months in the womb (daśamāsasya). The Lord disappeared there, where he was situated, without going elsewhere, because he is all powerful (vibhuḥ). He entered the womb and, attracting Parīkṣit’s mind (hariḥ, attractor), he then disappeared. This is the quality of the thief: he enters in and then disappears. Like a deceitful night prowler, he had entered into the womb to steal Parīkṣit’s mind. This metaphor is implied.

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