118 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 20

considering; vitatham—purposeless; dtmajam—her own child; vyasr-
jat—rejected; marutah—the demigods known as the Maruts;
abibhran—maintained (the child); dattah—the same child was given;
ayam—this; vitathe—was disappointed; anvaye—when the dynasty of
Maharaja Bharata.

TRANSLATION

Although encouraged by the demigods to maintain the child,
Mamata considered him useless because of his illicit birth, and
therefore she left him. Consequently, the demigods known as the
Maruts maintained the child, and when Maharaja Bharata was dis-
appointed for want of a child, this child was given to him as his
son.

PURPORT

From this verse it is understood that those who are rejected from the
higher planetary system are given a chance to take birth in the most
exalted families on this planet earth.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Ninth Canto, Twentieth
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “The Dynasty of Piru.”
