Text 11] Yamaraja Instructs His Messengers 151
Yamaraja and, if possible, punish them. Otherwise they desired to com-
mit suicide. Before pursuing either course, however, they wanted to
know about the Visnuditas from Yamaraja, who is also omniscient.
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$ri-badardyanir uvdca
iti devah sa aprstah
prajd-sarihyamano yamah
pritah sva-diitan pratyaha
smaran padambujam hareh

Sri-badarayanih uvdica—Sukadeva Gosvami said; iti—thus; devah—
the demigod; sah—he; dprstah—being questioned; prajd-sarryamanah
yamah—Lord Yamaraja, who controls the living entities; pritah —being
pleased; sva-diitan—to his own servants; pratyaha—replied; smaran—
remembering; pada-ambujam—the lotus feet; hareh —of Hari, the Per-
sonality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Thus having been questioned, Lord
Yamaraja, the supreme controller of the living entities, was very
pleased with his order carriers because of hearing from them the
holy name of Narayana. He remembered the lotus feet of the Lord
and began to reply.

PURPORT

Srila Yamaraja, the supreme controller of the living entities in terms
of their pious and impious activities, was very pleased with his servants
because they had chanted the holy name of Narayana in his dominion.
Yamaraja has to deal with men who are all sinful and who can hardly
understand Narayana. Consequently when his order carriers uttered the
name of Narayana, he was extremely pleased, for he also is a Vaisnava.
