106 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 3

nanda-yamasa suhrdah
sadhunam vartma darsayan

evam—thus; saficintya—thinking within Himself; bhagavan—the Person-
ality of Godhead; sva-rajye—in his own kingdom; sthapya—installing;
dharmajam—Maharaja Yudhisthira; nanda-yamasa—gladdened; suhrdah—
friend of all; sadhunam—of the saints; vartma—path; darsayan—by indica-
tion.

TRANSLATION

Lord Sri Krsna, thus thinking to Himself, established Maharaja
Yudhisthira in the position of supreme control of the world in order to
show the ideal of administration on the path of piety.

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uttarayam dhrtah puror
vamsah sadhv abhimanyuna

sa vai drauny-astra-samplustah-
punar bhagavata dhrtah

uttarayam—unto Uttara; dhrtah—conceived; puroh—of Puru; vamsah—
descendant; sadhu abhimanyuna—by the hero Abhimanyu; sah—he; vai—
certainly; drauni-astra—by the weapon of Drauni, the son of Drona;
samplustah—being burnt; punah—again for the second time; bhagavata—by
the Personality of Godhead; dhrtah— protected.

TRANSLATION

The embryo of the descendant of Paru, who was begotten by the great
hero Abhimanyu in the womb of Uttara, his wife, was burnt by the
weapon of the son of Drona, but later on he was again protected by the
Lord.

PURPORT

The embryonic body of Pariksit which was in formation after Uttara’s
pregnancy by Abhimanyu, the great hero, was burned by the brahmastra
of Agvatthama, but a second body was given by the Lord within the womb,
and thus the descendant of Puru was saved. This incident is the direct
proof that the body and the living entity, the spiritual spark, are different.
When the living entity takes shelter in the womb of a woman through the
injection of the semina of a man, there is an emulsification of the man’s
