# Cc. Ādi 16.82
> অম্বুজমম্বূনি জাতং ক্বচিদপি ন জাতমম্বুজাদম্বু ।
> মুরভিদি তদ্বিপরীতং পাদাম্ভোজান্মহানদী জাতা ॥৮২॥
## Text
> ambujam ambuni jātaṁ kvacid api na jātam ambujād ambu
> mura-bhidi tad-viparītaṁ pādāmbhojān mahā-nadī jātā
## Synonyms
*ambujam*—lotus flower; *ambuni*—in the water; *jātam*—is grown; *kvacit*—at any time; *api*—certainly; *na*—not; *jātam*—grown; *ambujāt*—from a lotus flower; *ambu*—water; *mura-bhidi*—in Kṛṣṇa, the killer of Murāsura; *tat-viparītam*—just the opposite of that; *pāda-ambhojāt*—from the lotus flower of His feet; *mahā-nadī*—the great river; *jātā*—has grown.
## Translation
**“ 'Everyone knows that lotus flowers grow in the water but water never grows from a lotus. All such contradictions, however, are wonderfully possible in Kṛṣṇa: the great river Ganges has grown from His lotus feet.'**