Devanagari
यवीयांस एकाशीतिर्जायन्तेया: पितुरादेशकरा महाशालीना महाश्रोत्रिया यज्ञशीला: कर्मविशुद्धा ब्राह्मणा बभूवु: ॥ १३ ॥
Verse text
yavīyāṁsa ekāśītir jāyanteyāḥ pitur ādeśakarā mahā-śālīnā mahā-śrotriyā yajṣa-śīlāḥ karma-viśuddhā brāhmaṇā babhūvuḥ.
Synonyms
yavīyāṁsaḥ
—
younger
;
ekāśītiḥ
—
numbering eighty-one
;
jāyanteyāḥ
—
the sons of Jayantī, the wife of Ṛṣabhadeva
;
pituḥ
—
of their father
;
ādeśakarāḥ
—
following the order
;
mahā
—
śālīnāḥ — well-behaved, well-cultured
;
mahā
—
śrotriyāḥ — extremely learned in Vedic knowledge
;
yajṣa
—
śīlāḥ — expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies
;
karma
—
viśuddhāḥ — very pure in their activities
;
brāhmaṇāḥ
—
qualified brāhmaṇas
;
babhūvuḥ
—
became .
Translation
In addition to these nineteen sons mentioned above, there were eighty-one younger ones, all born of Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī. According to the order of their father, they became well-cultured, well-behaved, very pure in their activities and expert in Vedic knowledge and the performance of Vedic rituals. Thus they all became perfectly qualified brāhmaṇas.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The eighty-one younger sons of Jayantī, who followed the order of their father, were humble, learned and dedicated to performing sacrifice.
Mahāśālināḥ means very humble or well-behaved.
Purport
From this verse we have good information of how the castes are qualified according to quality and work. Ṛṣabhadeva, a king, was certainly a
kṣatriya.
He had a hundred sons, and out of these, ten were engaged as
kṣatriyas
and ruled the planet. Nine sons became good preachers of
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
(
mahā-bhāgavatas
), and this indicates that they were above the position of
brāhmaṇas.
The other eighty-one sons became highly qualified
brāhmaṇas.
These are some practical examples of how one can become fit for a certain type of activity by qualification, not by birth. All the sons of Mahārāja Ṛṣabhadeva were
kṣatriyas
by birth, but by quality some of them became
kṣatriyas,
and some became
brāhmaṇas.
Nine became preachers of
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
(
bhāgavata-dharma-darśanāḥ
), which means that they were above the categories of
kṣatriya
and
brāhmaṇa.