SB 4.24.10 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

यस्येदं देवयजनमनुयज्ञं वितन्वत: । प्राचीनाग्रै: कुशैरासीदास्तृतं वसुधातलम् ॥ १० ॥

Verse text

yasyedaṁ deva-yajanam anuyajṣaṁ vitanvataḥ prācīnāgraiḥ kuśair āsīd āstṛtaṁ vasudhā-talam

Synonyms

yasya — whose ; idam — this ; deva — yajanam — satisfying the demigods by sacrifices ; anuyajṣam — continually sacrificing ; vitanvataḥ — executing ; prācīna — agraiḥ — keeping the kuśa grass facing toward the eastern side ; kuśaiḥ — the kuśa grass ; āsīt — remained ; āstṛtam — scattered ; vasudhā — talam — all over the surface of the globe .

Translation

Mahārāja Barhiṣat executed many sacrifices all over the world. He scattered kuśa grasses and kept the tops of the grasses pointed eastward.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Under Barhiṣat, who proliferated excellent sacrifices, each of which was dedicated to all the devatās, the whole earth was covered with kuśa grass with tips pointing east (prācīna). Under him, the earth was covered with kuśa (barhis). There was no place on earth where sacrifice was not performed by him. Thus he was called Prācīnabarhi. He spread sacrifices in which each sacrifice was for all the devatās (anuyajṣam) with proficiency.

Purport

As stated in the previous verse ( kriyā-kāṇḍeṣu niṣṇātaḥ ), Mahārāja Barhiṣat dived very deeply into the fruitive activities of sacrifice. This means that as soon as he finished one yajṣa in one place, he began performing another yajṣa in the immediate vicinity. At the present moment there is a similar need to perform saṅkīrtana-yajṣa all over the world. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has started performing saṅkīrtana-yajṣa in different places, and it has been experienced that wherever saṅkīrtana-yajṣa is performed, many thousands of people gather and take part in it. Imperceptible auspiciousness achieved in this connection should be continued all over the world. The members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should perform saṅkīrtana-yajṣas one after another, so much so that all the people of the world will either jokingly or seriously chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, and thus they will derive the benefit of cleansing the heart. The holy name of the Lord ( harer nāma ) is so powerful that whether it is chanted jokingly or seriously the effect of vibrating this transcendental sound will be equally distributed. It is not possible at the present moment to perform repeated yajṣas as Mahārāja Barhiṣat performed, but it is within our means to perform saṅkīrtana-yajṣa, which does not cost anything. One can sit down anywhere and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. If the surface of the globe is overflooded with the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, the people of the world will be very, very happy.