Text 3] The Descendants of King Priyavrata 73
they claim to be the descendants of Rsabhadeva. Those who are
Vaisnavas carefully avoid their company because they are ignorant of the
path of the Vedas. In Bhagavad-gita (15.15) Krsna says, vedais ca sar-
vair aham eva vedyah: “The real purpose of the Vedas is to understand
Me.” This is the injunction of all Vedic literatures. One who does not
know the greatness of Lord Krsna cannot be accepted as an Aryan. Lord
Buddha, an incarnation of Lord Krsna, adopted a particular means to
propagate the philosophy of bhdgavata-dharma. He preached almost
exclusively among atheists. Atheists do not want any God, and Lord Bud-
dha therefore said that there is no God, but he adopted the means to in-
struct his followers for their benefit. Therefore he preached in a
duplicitous way, saying that there is no God. Nonetheless, he himself was
an incarnation of God.
TEXT 2
TH Tada Bahra FatsAIT | 2 UI
tasmad vrddhasenayam devatajin-ndma putro *bhavat.

tasmat—from Sumati; vrddha-senéyam—in the womb of his wife,
named Vrddhasena; devatajit-nadma—named Devatajit; putrah—a son:
abhavat—was born.

TRANSLATION

From Sumati, a son named Devatajit was born by the womb of

his wife named Vrddhasena.
TEXT 3

ant ada wagued YA aa: wast qa
grea wile STH: 113 UI
athdsuryam tat-tanayo devadyumnas tato dhenumatydm sutah
paramesthi tasya suvarcalayam pratiha upajatah.

atha—thereafter; dsuryam—in the womb of his wife, named Asuri:
tat-tanayah—one son of Devatajit: deva-dyumnah—named
