1. Various Incarnations - 1 Canto 1 Chapter 3 Text 6-11
Srimad Bhagavatam
Various Incarnations - 1
Canto 1 Chapter 3 Text 6-11

2. Text 6
sa eva prathamaṁ devaḥ kaumāraṁ sargam āśritaḥ cacāra duścaraṁ brahmā brahmacaryam akhaṇḍitam First of all, in the beginning of creation, there were the four unmarried sons of Brahmā [the Kumāras], who, being situated in a vow of celibacy, underwent severe austerities for realization of the Absolute Truth.

3. Kumaras incarnation
The Kumāras, as above mentioned, appeared in the Kaumāra creation of the material world, to teach us the process of Brahman realization.
They underwent a severe type of disciplinary action as bachelors.
These Kumāras are empowered incarnations. And before executing the severe type of disciplinary actions, all of them became qualified brāhmaṇas.
This example suggests that one must first acquire the qualifications of a brāhmaṇa, not simply by birth but also by quality, and then one can undergo the process of Brahman realization.

4. Kumaras incarnation

5. Text 7
dvitīyaṁ tu bhavāyāsya rasātala-gatāṁ mahīm uddhariṣyann upādatta yajñeśaḥ saukaraṁ vapuḥ The supreme enjoyer of all sacrifices accepted the incarnation of a boar [the second incarnation], and for the welfare of the earth He lifted the earth from the nether regions of the universe.

6. Sukara incarnation
For every incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, the particular function executed is also mentioned. There cannot be any incarnation without a particular function, and such functions are always extraordinary.
The incarnation of the boar was to take the earth out of Pluto's region of filthy matter.
Picking up something from a filthy place is done by a boar, and the all-powerful Personality of Godhead displayed this wonder to the asuras, who had hidden the earth in such a filthy place.
There is nothing impossible for the Personality of Godhead, and although He played the part of a boar, by the devotees He is worshiped, staying always in transcendence.

7. Sukara incarnation

8. Text 8
tṛtīyam ṛṣi-sargaṁ vai devarṣitvam upetya saḥ tantraṁ sātvatam ācaṣṭa naiṣkarmyaṁ karmaṇāṁ yataḥ In the millennium of the ṛṣis, the Personality of Godhead accepted the third empowered incarnation in the form of Devarṣi Nārada, who is a great sage among the demigods. He collected expositions of the Vedas which deal with devotional service and which inspire nonfruitive action.

9. Narada incarnation
The great Ṛṣi Nārada, who is an empowered incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, propagates devotional service all over the universe.
All great devotees of the Lord all over the universe and in different planets and species of life are his disciples.
Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the compiler of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, is also one of his disciples.
Nārada is the author of Nārada Pañcarātra, which is the exposition of the Vedas particularly for the devotional service of the Lord.
Foolish materialists have no information of how to obtain eternal happiness in the unconditional state.
This Nārada Pañcarātra trains the karmīs, or the fruitive workers, to achieve liberation from the bondage of fruitive work.
The Bhagavad-gītā also gives the same solution of serving the Lord by the fruits of one's labor. That will lead one to the path of naiṣkarmya, or liberation.

10. Narada incarnation Narada & Mrugari, the hunter
Narada & Vyasa Maharshi

11. Text 9
turye dharma-kalā-sarge nara-nārāyaṇāv ṛṣī bhūtvātmopaśamopetam akarod duścaraṁ tapaḥ In the fourth incarnation, the Lord became Nara and Nārāyaṇa, the twin sons of the wife of King Dharma. Thus He undertook severe and exemplary penances to control the senses.

12. Nara-Narayana incarnation
As King Ṛṣabha advised His sons, tapasya, or voluntary acceptance of penance for realization of the Transcendence, is the only duty of the human being; it was so done by the Lord Himself in an exemplary manner to teach us.
The Lord is very kind to the forgetful souls. He therefore comes Himself and leaves behind necessary instructions.
He also sends His good sons as representatives to call all the conditioned souls back to Godhead.
Recently, Lord Caitanya also appeared for the same purpose: to show special favor to fallen souls of this age of iron industry.
The incarnation of Nārāyaṇa is worshiped still at Badarī-nārāyaṇa, on the range of the Himalayas.

13. Nara-Narayana incarnation
Shri Nara-Naryana and Rishi Durvasa

14. Text 10
pañcamaḥ kapilo nāma siddheśaḥ kāla-viplutam provācāsuraye sāṅkhyaṁ tattva-grāma-vinirṇayam The fifth incarnation, named Lord Kapila, is foremost among perfected beings. He gave an exposition of the creative elements and metaphysics to Āsuri Brāhmaṇa, for in course of time this knowledge had been lost.

15. Kapila incarnation Kapila is the author of Sankhya philosophy.
The sum total of the creative elements is twenty-four in all. Each and every one of them is explicitly explained in the system of Sāṅkhya philosophy.
Sāṅkhya philosophy is generally called metaphysics by the European scholars.
The etymological meaning of sāṅkhya is "that which explains very lucidly by analysis of the material elements."
This was done for the first time by Lord Kapila, who is said herein to be the fifth in the line of incarnations.

16. Kapila incarnation

17. Text 11
ṣaṣṭham atrer apatyatvaṁ vṛtaḥ prāpto 'nasūyayā ānvīkṣikīm alarkāya prahlādādibhya ūcivān The sixth incarnation of the puruṣa was the son of the sage Atri. He was born from the womb of Anasūyā, who prayed for an incarnation. He spoke on the subject of transcendence to Alarka, Prahlāda and others [Yadu, Haihaya, etc.].

18. Dattatreya incarnation
The Lord incarnated Himself as Dattātreya, the son of Ṛṣi Atri and Anasūyā.
The history of the birth of Dattātreya as an incarnation of the Lord is mentioned in the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa in connection with the story of the devoted wife.
Anasūyā, the wife of Ṛṣi Atri, prayed before the Lords Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva as follows: "My lords, if you are pleased with me, and if you desire me to ask from you some sort of blessings, then I pray that you combine together to become my son."
This was accepted by the lords, and as Dattātreya the Lord expounded the philosophy of the spirit soul and especially instructed Alarka, Prahlāda, Yadu, Haihaya, etc.

19. Dattatreya incarnation