There are three categories of incarnations of Godhead: partial incarnations, qualitative incarnations and empowered incarnations. The puruṣas and Matsya are examples of partial incarnations.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā · 6.105-106Baladeva, Lakṣmaṇa, Advaita Ācārya, Lord Nityānanda, Lord Śeṣa and Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa taste the nectarean mellows of the transcendental bliss of Lord Kṛṣṇa by recognizing Themselves as being His devotees and servants. They are all mad with that happiness, and they know nothing else.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā · 6.14-15Just as the external energy consists of two parts — the efficient cause [nimitta] and the material cause [upādāna], māyā being the efficient cause and pradhāna the material cause — so Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, assumes two forms to create the material world with the efficient an
Verse 131.6Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā · 13.80In the month of January in the year 1406 of the Śaka Era (A.D. 1485), Lord Kṛṣṇa entered the bodies of both Jagannātha Miśra and Śacī.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.49–65670207CC.SF Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.49–65 — February 7, 1967, San Francisco 670207CC-SAN FRANCISCO [22:41 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: While Lord Caitanya was residing at Benares, Rūpa..., Sanātana Gosvāmī met Him, and He taught him about Kṛṣṅa consciousness and the procedure to exe
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 17.21690607CC.NV Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, -līlā 17.21 — June 7, 1969, New Vrindavan 690607CC-NEW VRINDAVAN [26:15 Minutes] Audio Prabhupāda: [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very