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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 12]
celebrations simply for glorifying the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  maṅgala-svanān —transcendental sounds auspicious for everyone;  śrutvā —hearing such sounds;  sva-dhāmnaḥ —from his abode;  anti —nearby;  ajaḥ —Lord Brahmā;  āgataḥ —coming there;  acirāt —very soon;  dṛṣṭvā —seeing;  mahi —the glorification;  īśasya —of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  jagāma vismayam —became astonished.
TRANSLATION
When Lord Brahmā heard the wonderful ceremony going on near his planet, accompanied by music and songs and sounds of “Jaya! Jaya!” he immediately came down to see the function. Upon seeing so much glorification of Lord Kṛṣṇa, he was completely astonished.
PURPORT
Here the word  anti  means “near,” indicating that even in the higher planetary systems near Brahmaloka, like Maharloka, Janaloka and Tapoloka, the festival of glorification of Lord Kṛṣṇa was going on.
TEXT 36
राजनाजगरं चर्म शुष्कं वृन्दावनेऽद्भुतम् । 
    व्रजौकसां बहुतिथं बभूवाक्रीडगह्वरम् ॥३६॥
rājann ājagaram carma 
    śuṣkam vṛndāvane 'dbhutam 
    vrajaukasām bahu-titham 
    babhūvākrīḍa-gahvaram
rājan —O Mahārāja Parikṣit;  ājagaram carma —the dry body of Aghāsura, which remained only a big skin;  śuṣkam —when it completely dried up;  vṛndāvane adbhutam —like a wonderful museum piece in Vṛndāvana;  vraja-okasām —for the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi, Vṛndāvana;  bahu-titham —for many days, or for a long time;  babhūva —became;  ākrīḍa —sporting place;  gahvaram —a cave.
TRANSLATION
O King Parikṣit, when the python-shaped body of Aghāsura dried up into merely a big skin, it became a wonderful place for