Text 31] The Demigods Regain the Heavenly Planets 221
TRANSLATION

Whenever the activities of Vamanadeva are described in the
course of a ritualistic ceremony, whether the ceremony be per-
formed to please the demigods, to please one’s forefathers in
Pitrloka, or to celebrate a social event like a marriage, that
ceremony should be understood to be extremely auspicious.

PURPORT

There are three kinds of ceremonies—specifically, ceremonies to
please the Supreme Personality of Godhead or the demigods, those per-
formed for social celebrations like marriages and birthdays, and those
meant to please the forefathers, like the sraddha ceremony. In all these
ceremonies, large amounts of money are spent for various activities, but
here it is suggested that if along with this there is recitation of the won-
derful activities of Vamanadeva, certainly the ceremony will be carried
out successfully and will be free of all discrepancies.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Eighth Canto, Twenty-
third Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “The Demigods
Regain the Heavenly Planets.”
