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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 12]
cations. In this age of Kali, therefore, only one kind of sacrifice is recommended,  saṅkīrtana-yajña , as inaugurated by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
TEXT 34
तेन सम्भृतसम्भारो घर्मपुत्रो युधिष्ठिरः। वाजियेर्धेक्षिमिर्भीतो यज्ञैः समयजद्धरिष् ॥३४॥
tena sambhṛta-sambhāro dharma-putro yudhiṣṭhiraḥ vājimedhais tribhir bhīto yajñaiḥ samayajadd harim
tena —with that wealth;  sambhṛta —collected;  sambhāraḥ —ingredients;  dharma-putraḥ —the pious king;  yudhiṣṭhiraḥ —Yudhiṣṭhira;  vājimedhaiḥ —by horse sacrifices;  tribhiḥ —three times;  bhītaḥ —being greatly afraid after the Battle of Kurukṣetra;  yajñaiḥ —sacrifices;  samayajat —perfectly worshiped;  harim —the Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
By those riches, the King could procure the ingredients for three horse sacrifices. Thus the pious King Yudhiṣṭhira, who was very fearful after the Battle of Kurukṣetra, pleased Lord Hari the Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was the ideal and celebrated pious King of the world, and still he was greatly afraid after the execution of the Battle of Kurukṣetra because of the mass killing in the fight, all of which was done only to install him on the throne. He therefore took all the responsibility for sins committed in the warfare, and to get rid of all these sins, he wanted to perform three sacrifices in which horses are offered at the altar. Such a sacrifice is very costly. Even Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira had to collect the necessary heaps of gold left by Mahārāja Marutta and the  brāhmaṇas  who were given gold in charity by King Marutta. The learned  brāhmaṇas  could not take away all the loads of gold given by Mahārāja Marutta, and therefore they left behind the major portion of the gift. And Mahārāja