Text 19] Prahlada, the Best Among Exalted Devotees 303
Sri-bhagavan uvaca
trih-saptabhih pita piitah
pitrbhih saha te ’nagha
yat sddho ’sya kule jato
bhavan vai kula-pavanah
Sri-bhagavan uvaca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; trih-
saptabhih—seven multiplied by three (that is to say, twenty-one);
pita—father; piuitah—purified; pitrbhih—with your forefathers; saha—
all together; te—your; anagha—O most sinless personality (Prahlada
Maharaja); yat—because; sadho—O great saintly person; asya—of this
person; kule—in the dynasty; jatah—took birth; bhavén—you; vai—
indeed; kula-paévanah—the purifier of the whole dynasty.
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Prahlada, O
most pure, O great saintly person, your father has been purified,
along with twenty-one forefathers in your family. Because you
were born in this family, the entire dynasty has been purified.
PURPORT
The word trih-saptabhih means seven multiplied by three. In one’s
family one can count back four or five generations—to one’s great-
grandfather or even one’s great-grandfather’s father—but since the
Lord mentions twenty-one forefathers, this indicates that the benediction
expands to other families also. Before the present family in which one
has taken birth, one must have been born in other families. Thus when a
Vaisnava takes birth in a family, by the grace of the Lord he purifies not
only that family but also the families of his previous births.
TEXT 19
TATA A ARH TIM: THAATA: |
MAT: TYTN TAASHT HHT 1831
yatra yatra ca mad-bhaktah
prasantah sama-darsinah
