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TEXT 31
kriyamane karmanidam
daive pitrye tha manuse
yatra yatranukirtyeta
tat tesam sukrtam viduh
SYNONYMS
kriyamaneupon the performance; karmaniof a ritualistic ceremony; idamthis description of the characteristics of Vamanadeva; daiveto please the demigods; pitryeor to please the forefathers, as in a sraddha ceremony; athaeither; manusefor the pleasure of human society, as in marriages; yatrawherever; yatrawhenever; anukirtyetais described; tatthat; tesamfor them; sukrtamauspicious; viduheveryone should understand.
TRANSLATION
Whenever the activities of Vamanadeva are described in the course of a ritualistic ceremony, whether the ceremony be performed to please the demigods, to please ones 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 ceremoniesspecifically, ceremonies to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead or the demigods, those performed 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 wonderful 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.
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