Text 47] The Sacrifice Performed by Daksa 263

tvam— You; purd—in the past; gam—the earth; rasdyah—from within the
water; mahd-siikarah—the great boar incarnation; damstraya—with Your
tusk; padminim—a lotus; vdranendrah—an elephant; yalhd—as; stiiyama-
nah—being offered prayers; nadan—vibrating; lilaya—very easily; yogibhih—
by great sages like Sanaka, ete.; vyujjahartha— picked up; lrayigdlra—O
personified Vedic knowledge; yajiia-kratuh— having the form of sacrifice.

TRANSLATION

Dear Lord, O personified Vedic knowledge, in the past millennium,
long, long ago, when You appeared as the great boar incarnation, You
picked up the world from the water as an elephant picks up a lotus flower
from a lake. When You vibrated transcendental sound in that gigantic
boar form, it was accepted as a sacrificial hymn, and great sages like
Sanaka meditated upon it and offered prayers for Your glorification.

PURPORT

A significant word used in this verse is trayigatra, which means that the
transcendental form of the Lord is the Vedas. Anyone who engages in the
worship of the Deity, or the form of the Lord in the temple, is under-
stood to be studying all the Vedas twenty-four hours a day. Simply by
decorating the Deities of the Lord, Radha and Krsna, in the temple, one
very minutely studies the injunctions of the Vedas. Even a neophyte
devotee who simply engages in the worship of the Deity is understood to
he in direct touch with the purport of Vedic knowledge. As confirmed in
Bhagavad-gild, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: the purport of the Vedas
is to understand Him, Krsna. One who worships and serves Krsna directly
has understood the truths of the Vedas.

TEXT 47
a wale ARaARAT
aid 8 aftawacneny |
adam aah aaa a
Tata: Fa alsa TSH AA: [VII

sa prasida tvam asmakam akanksaltam
darsanam le paribhrasta-sal-karmandm

kirlyamane nrbhir namni yajnesa le
yajnavighnah ksayam yanli lasmai namah
