312 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 9
continuously for three lives, he was not interested in continuing to
execute them, although his brahmana father wanted him to do so.
TEXT 5

aafi a 2 fadirntaeitiaite wm att acia-
emmfery ag « sarefat: «= asorafaefardt aft de
TAHARI MATA HH
sa cépi tad u ha pitr-sannidhav evasadhricinam iva sma karoti
chandamsy adhydpayisyan saha vyahrtibhih sapranava-siras tripadim
sdvitrim graisma-vasantikan masan adhiyanam apy asamaveta-riiparh
grahaydm asa.

sah—he (Jada Bharata); ca —also; api—indeed; tat u ha—that which
was instructed by his father; pitr-sannidhau—in the presence of his
father; evua—even; asadhricinam iva —not correct, as if he could not un-
derstand anything; sma karoti—used to perform; chanddmsi
adhyapayisyan—desiring to teach him Vedic mantras during the
months beginning with Sravana or during the period of Caturmasya;
saha—along with; vydhrtibhih—the utterance of the names of the
heavenly planets (bhith, bhuvah, svah); sa-pranava-sirah—headed by
omkara; tri-padim—three-footed; sdvitrim—the Gayatri mantra;
graisma-vasantikan—for four months, beginning with Caitra, on the fif-
teenth of May; mdsdn—the months; adhiyanam api—although fully
studying; asamaveta-ripam—in an incomplete form; grahayaém dsa—
he made him learn.

TRANSLATION

Jada Bharata behaved before his father like a fool, despite his
father’s adequately instructing him in Vedic knowledge. He
behaved in that way so that his father would know that he was unfit
for instruction and would abandon the attempt to instruct him
further. He would behave in a completely opposite way. Although
instructed to wash his hands after evacuating, he would wash them
before. Nonetheless, his father wanted to give him Vedic instruc-
