Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 - Chapter 12

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 31 Sanskrit: तेजीयसामपि ह्येतन्न सुश्लोक्यं जगद्गुरो ।यद्‌वृत्तमनुतिष्ठन् वै लोक: क्षेमाय कल्पते ॥ ३१ ॥ ITRANS: tejīyasām api hy etanna suślokyaṁ jagad-guroyad-vṛttam anutiṣṭhan vailokaḥ kṣemāya kalpate Translation: Even though you are the most powerful being, this act does not suit you because your character is followed for spiritual improvement by people in general. Purport: It is said that a supremely powerful living entity can do anything and everything he likes and such acts do not affect him in any way....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 32 Sanskrit: तस्मै नमो भगवते य इदं स्वेन रोचिषा ।आत्मस्थं व्यञ्जयामास स धर्मं पातुमर्हति ॥ ३२ ॥ ITRANS: tasmai namo bhagavateya idaṁ svena rociṣāātma-sthaṁ vyañjayām āsasa dharmaṁ pātum arhati Translation: Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, who, by His own effulgence, while situated in Himself, has manifested this cosmos. May He also protect religion for all goodness....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 33 Sanskrit: स इत्थं गृणत: पुत्रान् पुरो दृष्ट्वा प्रजापतीन् ।प्रजापतिपतिस्तन्वं तत्याज व्रीडितस्तदा ।तां दिशो जगृहुर्घोरां नीहारं यद्विदुस्तम: ॥ ३३ ॥ ITRANS: sa itthaṁ gṛṇataḥ putrānpuro dṛṣṭvā prajāpatīnprajāpati-patis tanvaṁtatyāja vrīḍitas tadātāṁ diśo jagṛhur ghorāṁnīhāraṁ yad vidus tamaḥ Translation: The father of all Prajāpatis, Brahmā, thus seeing all his Prajāpati sons speaking in that way, became very much ashamed and at once gave up the body he had accepted....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 34 Sanskrit: कदाचिद् ध्यायत: स्रष्टुर्वेदा आसंश्चतुर्मुखात् ।कथं स्रक्ष्याम्यहं लोकान् समवेतान् यथा पुरा ॥ ३४ ॥ ITRANS: kadācid dhyāyataḥ sraṣṭurvedā āsaṁś catur-mukhātkathaṁ srakṣyāmy ahaṁ lokānsamavetān yathā purā Translation: Once upon a time, when Brahmā was thinking of how to create the worlds as in the past millennium, the four Vedas, which contain all varieties of knowledge, became manifested from his four mouths. Purport: As a fire can consume anything and everything without being contaminated, so, by the grace of the Lord, the fire of Brahmā’s greatness consumed his desire for the sinful act of sex with his daughter....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 35 Sanskrit: चातुर्होत्रं कर्मतन्त्रमुपवेदनयै: सह ।धर्मस्य पादाश्चत्वारस्तथैवाश्रमवृत्तय: ॥ ३५ ॥ ITRANS: cātur-hotraṁ karma-tantramupaveda-nayaiḥ sahadharmasya pādāś catvārastathaivāśrama-vṛttayaḥ Translation: The four kinds of paraphernalia for conducting the fire sacrifice became manifest: the performer [the chanter], the offerer, the fire, and the action performed in terms of the supplementary Vedas. Also the four principles of religiosity [truth, austerity, mercy and cleanliness] and the duties in the four social orders all became manifest....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 36 Sanskrit: विदुर उवाचस वै विश्वसृजामीशो वेदादीन् मुखतोऽसृजत् ।यद् यद् येनासृजद् देवस्तन्मे ब्रूहि तपोधन ॥ ३६ ॥ ITRANS: vidura uvācasa vai viśva-sṛjām īśovedādīn mukhato ’sṛjatyad yad yenāsṛjad devastan me brūhi tapo-dhana Translation: Vidura said: O great sage whose only wealth is penance, kindly explain to me how and with whose help Brahmā established the Vedic knowledge which emanated from his mouth. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 37 Sanskrit: मैत्रेय उवाचऋग्यजु:सामाथर्वाख्यान् वेदान् पूर्वादिभिर्मुखै: ।शास्त्रमिज्यां स्तुतिस्तोमं प्रायश्चित्तं व्यधात्क्रमात् ॥ ३७ ॥ ITRANS: maitreya uvācaṛg-yajuḥ-sāmātharvākhyānvedān pūrvādibhir mukhaiḥśāstram ijyāṁ stuti-stomaṁprāyaścittaṁ vyadhāt kramāt Translation: Maitreya said: Beginning from the front face of Brahmā, gradually the four Vedas — Ṛk, Yajur, Sāma and Atharva — became manifest. Thereafter, Vedic hymns which had not been pronounced before, priestly rituals, the subject matters of the recitation, and transcendental activities were all established, one after another....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 38 Sanskrit: आयुर्वेदं धनुर्वेदं गान्धर्वं वेदमात्मन: ।स्थापत्यं चासृजद् वेदं क्रमात्पूर्वादिभिर्मुखै: ॥ ३८ ॥ ITRANS: āyur-vedaṁ dhanur-vedaṁgāndharvaṁ vedam ātmanaḥsthāpatyaṁ cāsṛjad vedaṁkramāt pūrvādibhir mukhaiḥ Translation: He also created the medical science, military art, musical art and architectural science, all from the Vedas. They all emanated one after another, beginning from the front face. Purport: The Vedas contain perfect knowledge, which includes all kinds of knowledge necessary for the human society, not only on this particular planet but on other planets as well....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 39 Sanskrit: इतिहासपुराणानि पञ्चमं वेदमीश्वर: ।सर्वेभ्य एव वक्त्रेभ्य: ससृजे सर्वदर्शन: ॥ ३९ ॥ ITRANS: itihāsa-purāṇānipañcamaṁ vedam īśvaraḥsarvebhya eva vaktrebhyaḥsasṛje sarva-darśanaḥ Translation: Then he created the fifth Veda — the Purāṇas and the histories — from all his mouths, since he could see all the past, present and future. Purport: There are histories of particular countries and nations and of the world, but the Purāṇas are the histories of the universe, not only in one millennium but in many kalpas....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: षोडश्युक्थौ पूर्ववक्त्रात्पुरीष्यग्निष्टुतावथ ।आप्तोर्यामातिरात्रौ च वाजपेयं सगोसवम् ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: ṣoḍaśy-ukthau pūrva-vaktrātpurīṣy-agniṣṭutāv athaāptoryāmātirātrau cavājapeyaṁ sagosavam Translation: All the different varieties of fire sacrifices [ṣoḍaśī, uktha, purīṣi, agniṣṭoma, āptoryāma, atirātra, vājapeya and gosava] became manifested from the eastern mouth of Brahmā. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 41 Sanskrit: विद्या दानं तप: सत्यं धर्मस्येति पदानि च ।आश्रमांश्च यथासंख्यमसृजत्सह वृत्तिभि: ॥ ४१ ॥ ITRANS: vidyā dānaṁ tapaḥ satyaṁdharmasyeti padāni caāśramāṁś ca yathā-saṅkhyamasṛjat saha vṛttibhiḥ Translation: Education, charity, penance and truth are said to be the four legs of religion, and to learn this there are four orders of life with different classifications of castes according to vocation. Brahmā created all these in systematic order....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 42 Sanskrit: सावित्रं प्राजापत्यं च ब्राह्मं चाथ बृहत्तथा ।वार्तासञ्चयशालीनशिलोञ्छ इति वै गृहे ॥ ४२ ॥ ITRANS: sāvitraṁ prājāpatyaṁ cabrāhmaṁ cātha bṛhat tathāvārtā sañcaya-śālīna-śiloñcha iti vai gṛhe Translation: Then the thread ceremony for the twice-born was inaugurated, as were the rules to be followed for at least one year after acceptance of the Vedas, rules for observing complete abstinence from sex life, vocations in terms of Vedic injunctions, various professional duties in household life, and the method of maintaining a livelihood without anyone’s cooperation by picking up rejected grains....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 43 Sanskrit: वैखानसा वालखिल्यौदुम्बरा: फेनपा वने ।न्यासे कुटीचक: पूर्वं बह्वोदो हंसनिष्क्रियौ ॥ ४३ ॥ ITRANS: vaikhānasā vālakhilyau-dumbarāḥ phenapā vanenyāse kuṭīcakaḥ pūrvaṁbahvodo haṁsa-niṣkriyau Translation: The four divisions of retired life are the vaikhānasas, vālakhilyas, audumbaras and phenapas. The four divisions of the renounced order of life are the kuṭīcakas, bahvodas, haṁsas and niṣkriyas. All these were manifested from Brahmā. Purport: The varṇāśrama-dharma, or the institution of the four divisions and orders of social and spiritual life, is not a new invention of the modern age, as proposed by the less intelligent....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 44 Sanskrit: आन्वीक्षिकी त्रयी वार्ता दण्डनीतिस्तथैव च ।एवं व्याहृतयश्वासन् प्रणवो ह्यस्य दहृत: ॥ ४४ ॥ ITRANS: ānvīkṣikī trayī vārtādaṇḍa-nītis tathaiva caevaṁ vyāhṛtayaś cāsanpraṇavo hy asya dahrataḥ Translation: The science of logical argument, the Vedic goals of life, and also law and order, moral codes and the celebrated hymns bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ and svaḥ all became manifested from the mouths of Brahmā, and the praṇava oṁkāra was manifested from his heart....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 45 Sanskrit: तस्योष्णिगासील्लोमभ्यो गायत्री च त्वचो विभो: ।त्रिष्टुम्मांसात्स्‍नुतोऽनुष्टुब्जगत्यस्थ्न: प्रजापते: ॥ ४५ ॥ ITRANS: tasyoṣṇig āsīl lomabhyogāyatrī ca tvaco vibhoḥtriṣṭum māṁsāt snuto ’nuṣṭubjagaty asthnaḥ prajāpateḥ Translation: Thereafter the art of literary expression, uṣṇik, was generated from the hairs on the body of the almighty Prajāpati. The principal Vedic hymn, gāyatrī, was generated from the skin, triṣṭup from the flesh, anuṣṭup from the veins, and jagatī from the bones of the lord of the living entities....