Text 6] The Activities of King Bharata 293

sampracaratsu—when beginning to perform: naénd-yagesu—various
kinds of sacrifice: viracita-ariga-kriyesu—in which the supplementary
rites were performed: apiirvam—remote: yat—whatever: tat—that:
kriya-phalam—the result of such sacrifice: dharma-akhyam-—by the
name of religion: pare—unto the transcendence: brahmani—the
Supreme Lord: yajria-puruse—the enjoyer of all sacrifices: sarva-
devata-liiganam—which manifest all the demigods; mantranam—of
the Vedic hymns: artha-niyama-katayd —due to being the controller of
the objects: saksat-kartari—directly the performer: para-devatayam—
the origin of all demigods: bhagavati—the Supreme Personality of
Godhead: vasudeve—unto Krsna: eva—certainly: bha@vayamanah—al-
ways thinking; dtma-naipunya-mrdita-kasadyah—freed from all lust
and anger by his expertise in such thinking: havihsu—the ingredients to
be offered in the sacrifice: adhvaryubhih—when the priests expert in
the sacrifices mentioned in the Atharva Veda; grhyamdnesu—taking:
sah—Maharaja Bharata: yajamanah—the sacrificer: yajna-bhajah—the
recipients of the results of sacrifice: devan—all the demigods: tan—
them; purusa-avayavesu—as different parts and limbs of the body of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda; abhyadhyayat—he thought.

TRANSLATION

After performing the preliminaries of various sacrifices,
Maharaja Bharata offered the results in the name of religion to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva. In other words, he
performed all the yajiias for the satisfaction of Lord Vasudeva,
Krsna. Maharaja Bharata thought that since the demigods were
different parts of Vasudeva’s body, He controls those who are ex-
plained in the Vedic mantras. By thinking in this way, Maharaja
Bharata was freed from all material contamination, such as attach-
ment, lust and greed. When the priests were about to offer the
sacrificial ingredients into the fire, Maharaja Bharata expertly un-
derstood how the offering made to different demigods was simply
an offering to the different limbs of the Lord. For instance, Indra
is the arm of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Sarya [the
sun] is His eye. Thus Maharaja Bharata considered that the
