yajña

  • asoma sacrifices — SB 3.13.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.38

    O Lord, Your semen is the sacrifice called soma-yajña. Your growth is the ritualistic performances of the morning. Your skin and touch sensations are the seven elements of the agniṣṭoma sacrifice. Your bodily joints are symbols of various other sacrifices performed in twelve days. Therefore You are the object of all sacrifices called soma and asoma, and You are bound by yajñas only.
  • in the form of animal sacrifices — SB 5.18.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.35

    O Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You as the gigantic person. Simply by chanting mantras, we shall be able to understand You fully. You are yajña [sacrifice], and You are the kratu [ritual]. Therefore all the ritualistic ceremonies of sacrifice are part of Your transcendental body, and You are the only enjoyer of all sacrifices. Your form is composed of transcendental goodness. You are known as tri-yuga because in Kali-yuga You appeared as a concealed incarnation and because You always fully possess the three pairs of opulences.
  • Lord Viṣṇu — SB 3.13.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.23

    While Brahmā was deliberating with his sons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, roared tumultuously like a great mountain.
  • of sacrifice — SB 2.4.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.4.20

    May Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is the worshipable Lord of all devotees, the protector and glory of all the kings like Andhaka and Vṛṣṇi of the Yadu dynasty, the husband of all goddesses of fortune, the director of all sacrifices and therefore the leader of all living entities, the controller of all intelligence, the proprietor of all planets, spiritual and material, and the supreme incarnation on the earth (the supreme all in all), be merciful upon me.    , SB 2.9.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.15

    Lord Brahmā saw in the Vaikuṇṭha planets the Personality of Godhead, who is the Lord of the entire devotee community, the Lord of the goddess of fortune, the Lord of all sacrifices, and the Lord of the universe, and who is served by the foremost servitors like Nanda, Sunanda, Prabala and Arhaṇa, His immediate associates.
  • of the sacrifice — SB 6.14.28plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.14.28

    O Parīkṣit Mahārāja, best of the Bhāratas, the remnants of the food offered in the yajña were given by the great sage Aṅgirā to the first and most perfect among Citraketu's millions of queens, whose name was Kṛtadyuti.
  • performance of sacrifices — Madhya 20.335plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.335

    "In the Satya-yuga the people were generally advanced in spiritual knowledge and could meditate upon Kṛṣṇa very easily. The people's occupational duty in Tretā-yuga was to perform great sacrifices. This was induced by the Personality of Godhead in His reddish incarnation.
  • sacrifice — Bg. 11.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 11.48

    O best of the Kuru warriors, no one before you has ever seen this universal form of Mine, for neither by studying the Vedas, nor by performing sacrifices, nor by charities or similar activities can this form be seen. Only you have seen this.    , Bg. 17.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.24

    Thus the transcendentalists undertake sacrifices, charities, and penances, beginning always with om, to attain the Supreme.    , Bg. 17.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.25

    One should perform sacrifice, penance and charity with the word tat. The purpose of such transcendental activities is to get free from the material entanglement.    , Bg. 18.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.3

    Some learned men declare that all kinds of fruitive activities should be given up, but there are yet other sages who maintain that acts of sacrifice, charity and penance should never be abandoned.    , Bg. 18.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 18.5

    Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not to be given up but should be performed. Indeed, sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great souls.    , SB 1.4.19plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.4.19

    He saw that the sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas were means by which the people's occupations could be purified. And to simplify the process he divided the one Veda into four, in order to expand them among men.    , SB 1.17.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.33

    Therefore, O friend of irreligion, you do not deserve to remain in a place where experts perform sacrifices according to truth and religious principles for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.    , SB 4.4.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.6

    She then reached her father's house, where the sacrifice was being performed, and entered the arena where everyone was chanting the Vedic hymns. The great sages, brāhmaṇas and demigods were all assembled there, and there were many sacrificial animals, as well as pots made of clay, stone, gold, grass and skin, which were all requisite for the sacrifice.    , SB 4.7.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.17

    Thereafter, in order to resume the activities of sacrifice, the brāhmaṇas first arranged to purify the sacrificial arena of the contamination caused by the touch of Vīrabhadra and the other ghostly followers of Lord Śiva. Then they arranged to offer into the fire the oblations known as puroḍāśa.
  • sacrifices — Bg. 4.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.30

    All these performers who know the meaning of sacrifice become cleansed of sinful reaction, and, having tasted the nectar of the remnants of such sacrifice, they go to the supreme eternal atmosphere.    , Bg. 5.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.29

    The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries.    , SB 4.14.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.14.21

    Dear King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with the predominating deities, is the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices in all planets. The Supreme Lord is the sum total of the three Vedas, the owner of everything, and the ultimate goal of all austerity. Therefore your countrymen should engage in performing various sacrifices for your elevation. Indeed, you should always direct them towards the offering of sacrifices.    , SB 4.24.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.38

    My Lord, You are the provider of the Pitṛlokas as well as all the demigods. You are the predominating deity of the moon and the master of all three Vedas. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You because You are the original source of satisfaction for all living entities.    , SB 7.2.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.10

    While I am engaged in the business of killing Lord Viṣṇu, go down to the planet earth, which is flourishing due to brahminical culture and a kṣatriya government. These people engage in austerity, sacrifice, Vedic study, regulative vows, and charity. Destroy all the people thus engaged!    , SB 9.23.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.23.25

    No other king in this world could equal Kārtavīryārjuna in sacrifices, charity, austerity, mystic power, education, strength or mercy.    , Madhya 11.190plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 11.190

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exalted Haridāsa Ṭhākura, stating, "At every moment you take your bath in all the holy places of pilgrimage, and at every moment you perform great sacrifices, austerity and charity.
  • sacrificial — SB 2.6.23plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.6.23

    When I was born from the abdominal lotus flower of the Lord [Mahā-Viṣṇu], the great person, I had no ingredients for sacrificial performances except the bodily limbs of the great Personality of Godhead.    , SB 4.19.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.2

    When the most powerful Indra, the King of heaven, saw this, he considered the fact that King Pṛthu was going to exceed him in fruitive activities. Thus Indra could not tolerate the great sacrificial ceremonies performed by King Pṛthu.
  • such a sacrifice — Antya 3.124plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.124

    "I have vowed to chant ten million names in a month. I have taken this vow, but now it is nearing its end.
  • the avatāra named Yajña — Madhya 20.325plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.325

    "In the Svāyambhuva-manvantara, the avatāra was named Yajña. In the Svārociṣa-manvantara, he was named Vibhu. In the Auttama-manvantara, he was named Satyasena, and in the Tāmasa-manvantara he was named Hari.
  • the sacrifice — SB 4.19.24-25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.24-25

    In this way, King Indra, in order to steal the horse from King Pṛthu's sacrifice, adopted several orders of sannyāsa. Some sannyāsīs go naked, and sometimes they wear red garments and pass under the name of kāpālika. These are simply symbolic representations of their sinful activities. These so-called sannyāsīs are very much appreciated by sinful men because they are all godless atheists and very expert in putting forward arguments and reasons to support their case. We must know, however, that they are only passing as adherents of religion and are not so in fact. Unfortunately, bewildered persons accept them as religious, and being attracted to them, they spoil their life.    , Ādi 3.78plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 3.78

    Such a person is truly intelligent, whereas others, who have but a poor fund of knowledge, must endure the cycle of repeated birth and death. Of all sacrificial performances, the chanting of the Lord's holy name is the most sublime.
  • Viṣṇu — SB 1.5.38plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.38

    Thus he is the actual seer who worships, in the form of transcendental sound representation, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who has no material form.
  • Yajña — SB 4.1.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.4

    Of the two children born of Ākūti, the male child was directly an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and His name was Yajña, which is another name of Lord Viṣṇu. The female child was a partial incarnation of Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune, the eternal consort of Lord Viṣṇu.

yajña-ādayaḥ

  • the Lord’s incarnation known as Yajña and others — SB 8.14.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.14.3

    O King, I have already described to you various incarnations of the Lord, such as Yajña. The Manus and others are chosen by these incarnations, under whose direction they conduct the universal affairs.

yajña-ādi

  • performance of sacrifices, etc — Ādi 8.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 8.17

    "By cultivating philosophical knowledge one can understand his spiritual position and thus be liberated, and by performing sacrifices and pious activities one can achieve sense gratification in a higher planetary system, but the devotional service of the Lord is so rare that even by executing hundreds and thousands of such sacrifices one cannot obtain it."

yajña-artham

  • for performing sacrifices — SB 9.13.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.13.18

    From Hrasvaromā came a son named Śīradhvaja [also called Janaka]. When Śīradhvaja was plowing a field, from the front of his plow [śīra] appeared a daughter named Sītādevī, who later became the wife of Lord Rāmacandra. Thus he was known as Śīradhvaja.

yajña-arthāt

  • only for the sake of Yajña, or Viṣṇu — Bg. 3.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.9

    Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed, otherwise work binds one to this material world. Therefore, O son of Kuntī, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage.

yajña-arthe

  • for the purpose of performing sacrifices — SB 4.18.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.18.7

    My dear King, not only are grains and herbs being used by nondevotees, but, as far as I am concerned, I am not being properly maintained. Indeed, I am being neglected by kings who are not punishing these rascals who have turned into thieves by using grains for sense gratification. Consequently I have hidden all these seeds, which were meant for the performance of sacrifice.

yajña-ātman

  • O Lord of sacrifice — SB 4.7.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.33

    The wives of the performers of the sacrifice said: My dear Lord, this sacrifice was arranged under the instruction of Brahmā, but unfortunately Lord Śiva, being angry at Dakṣa, devastated the entire scene, and because of his anger the animals meant for sacrifice are lying dead. Therefore the preparations of the yajña have been lost. Now, by the glance of Your lotus eyes, the sanctity of this sacrificial arena may be again invoked.

yajñā-avaśiṣṭa-arthaiḥ

  • things obtained after a sacrifice is offered to the Lord or after the recommended pañca-sūnā yajña is performed — SB 7.14.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.14

    An intelligent person should be satisfied with eating prasāda [food offered to the Lord] or with performing the five different kinds of yajña [pañca-sūnā]. By such activities, one can give up attachment for the body and so-called proprietorship with reference to the body. When one is able to do this, he is firmly fixed in the position of a mahātmā.

yajña-avayavasya

  • of the Personality of Godhead (of whose body yajña is a part) — SB 3.18.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.18.20

    O descendant of Kuru, Brahmā, the most independent demigod of the universe, accompanied by his followers, came to see the terrible fight for the sake of the world between the demon and the Personality of Godhead, who appeared in the form of a boar.

yajña-bāhu

  • Yajñabāhu — SB 5.1.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.25

    The ten sons of Mahārāja Priyavrata were named Āgnīdhra, Idhmajihva, Yajñabāhu, Mahāvīra, Hiraṇyaretā, Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, Savana, Medhātithi, Vītihotra and Kavi. These are also names of Agni, the fire-god.

yajña-bāhuḥ

  • named Yajñabāhu — SB 5.20.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.9

    The son of Mahārāja Priyavrata named Yajñabāhu, the master of Sālmalīdvīpa, divided the island into seven tracts of land, which he gave to his seven sons. The names of those divisions, which correspond to the names of the sons, are Surocana, Saumanasya, Ramaṇaka, Deva-varṣa, Pāribhadra, Āpyāyana and Avijñāta.

yajña-bhāga-bhujaḥ

  • the enjoyers of the result of yajñas — SB 8.14.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.14.6

    To enjoy the results of sacrifices [yajñas], the rulers of the world, namely the sons and grandsons of Manu, discharge the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead until the end of Manu's reign. The demigods also share the results of these sacrifices.

yajña-bhāgān

  • the shares of ritualistic ceremonies — SB 9.17.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.17.14

    Upon Rajī's death, Indra begged Rajī's sons for the return of the heavenly planet. They did not return it, however, although they agreed to return Indra's shares in ritualistic ceremonies.

yajña-bhājaḥ

  • the recipients of the results of sacrifice — SB 5.7.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.7.6

    After performing the preliminaries of various sacrifices, Mahārāja Bharata offered the results in the name of religion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. In other words, he performed all the yajñas for the satisfaction of Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. Mahārāja Bharata thought that since the demigods were different parts of Vāsudeva's body, He controls those who are explained in the Vedic mantras. By thinking in this way, Mahārāja Bharata was freed from all material contamination, such as attachment, lust and greed. When the priests were about to offer the sacrificial ingredients into the fire, Mahārāja Bharata expertly understood how the offering made to different demigods was simply an offering to the different limbs of the Lord. For instance, Indra is the arm of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Sūrya [the sun] is His eye. Thus Mahārāja Bharata considered that the oblations offered to different demigods were actually offered unto the different limbs of Lord Vāsudeva.

yajña-bhāvana

  • one who is understood by performances of sacrifice — SB 3.13.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.34

    All the sages uttered with great respect: O unconquerable enjoyer of all sacrifices, all glories and all victories unto You! You are moving in Your form of the personified Vedas, and in the hair holes of Your body the oceans are submerged. For certain reasons [to uplift the earth] You have now assumed the form of a boar.

yajña-bhāvane

  • the protector of sacrifice — SB 4.7.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.48

    Śrī Maitreya said: After Lord Viṣṇu was glorified by all present, Dakṣa, his consciousness purified, arranged to begin again the yajña which had been devastated by the followers of Lord Śiva.

yajña-bhāvitāḥ

  • being satisfied by the performance of sacrifices — Bg. 3.12plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.12

    In charge of the various necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajña [sacrifice], supply all necessities to man. But he who enjoys these gifts, without offering them to the demigods in return, is certainly a thief.

yajña-bhujām

  • all the demigods eligible to accept yajña offerings — SB 4.21.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.21.36

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the master and enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices, and He is the supreme spiritual master as well. All of you citizens on the surface of the globe who have a relationship with me and are worshiping Him by dint of your occupational duties are bestowing your mercy upon me. Therefore, O my citizens, I thank you.

yajña-bhuk

  • the enjoyer of the yajña — SB 4.20.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.1

    The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, being very much satisfied by the performance of ninety-nine horse sacrifices, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, appeared on the scene. Accompanying Him was King Indra. Lord Viṣṇu then began to speak.
  • the enjoyer of the fruits resulting from sacrifice — SB 9.5.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.5.5

    O Sudarśana wheel, you are religion, you are truth, you are encouraging statements, you are sacrifice, and you are the enjoyer of the fruits of sacrifice. You are the maintainer of the entire universe, and you are the supreme transcendental prowess in the hands of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are the original vision of the Lord, and therefore you are known as Sudarśana. Everything has been created by your activities, and therefore you are all-pervading.
  • the enjoyer of the results of sacrifice — SB 9.17.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.17.4

    The son of Kāśya was Kāśi, and his son was Rāṣṭra, the father of Dīrghatama. Dīrghatama had a son named Dhanvantari, who was the inaugurator of the medical science and an incarnation of Lord Vāsudeva, the enjoyer of the results of sacrifices. One who remembers the name of Dhanvantari can be released from all disease.
  • the Lord, the enjoyer of the sacrifice — SB 4.13.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.32

    O King, we wish all good fortune for you. You have no son, but if you pray at once to the Supreme Lord and ask for a son, and if you execute the sacrifice for that purpose, the enjoyer of the sacrifice, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, will fulfill your desire.

yajña-bhuk bāla-keliḥ

  • although He accepts offerings in yajña, for the sake of childhood pastimes He was enjoying foodstuffs very jubilantly with His cowherd boyfriends — SB 10.13.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.13.11

    Kṛṣṇa is yajña-bhuk—that is, He eats only offerings of yajña—but to exhibit His childhood pastimes, He now sat with His flute tucked between His waist and His tight cloth on His right side and with His horn bugle and cow-driving stick on His left. Holding in His hand a very nice preparation of yogurt and rice, with pieces of suitable fruit between His fingers, He sat like the whorl of a lotus flower, looking forward toward all His friends, personally joking with them and creating jubilant laughter among them as He ate. At that time, the denizens of heaven were watching, struck with wonder at how the Personality of Godhead, who eats only in yajña, was now eating with His friends in the forest.

yajña-chidram

  • discrepancies in the performance of sacrifices — SB 8.23.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.18

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In this way, the most powerful Śukrācārya accepted the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with full respect. Along with the best brāhmaṇas, he began to compensate for the discrepancies in the sacrifices performed by Bali Mahārāja.

yajña-dhruk

  • creating a disturbance in the performance of the sacrifice — SB 4.19.36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.36

    Just see how Indra, the King of heaven, was creating a disturbance in the midst of the sacrifice by stealing the sacrificial horse. These attractive sinful activities he has introduced will be carried out by the people in general.

yajña-gatam

  • being present at the sacrifice — SB 4.3.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.3.24

    Therefore you should not see your father, although he is the giver of your body, because he and his followers are envious of me. Because of his envy, O most worshipful one, he has insulted me with cruel words although I am innocent.

yajña-ghna-ghnena

  • for killing the destroyers of the yajña — SB 4.4.32plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.32

    They came forward forcibly, but Bhṛgu Muni saw the danger and, offering oblations into the southern side of the sacrificial fire, immediately uttered mantric hymns from the Yajur Veda by which the destroyers of yajñic performances could be killed immediately.

yajña-ghnān

  • the disturbers of the sacrificial performances — SB 3.22.29-30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.29-30

    The city of Barhiṣmatī, rich in all kinds of wealth, was so called because Lord Viṣṇu's hair dropped there from His body when He manifested Himself as Lord Boar. As He shook His body, this very hair fell and turned into blades of evergreen kuśa grass and kāśa [another kind of grass used for mats], by means of which the sages worshiped Lord Viṣṇu after defeating the demons who had interfered with the performance of their sacrifices.
  • who were disturbing sacrifices — SB 6.6.33-36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.6.33-36

    Vaiśvānara, the son of Danu, had four beautiful daughters, named Upadānavī, Hayaśirā, Pulomā and Kālakā. Hiraṇyākṣa married Upadānavī, and Kratu married Hayaśirā. Thereafter, at the request of Lord Brahmā, Prajāpati Kaśyapa married Pulomā and Kālakā, the other two daughters of Vaiśvānara. From the wombs of these two wives of Kaśyapa came sixty thousand sons, headed by Nivātakavaca, who are known as the Paulomas and the Kālakeyas. They were physically very strong and expert in fighting, and their aim was to disturb the sacrifices performed by the great sages. My dear King, when your grandfather Arjuna went to the heavenly planets, he alone killed all these demons, and thus King Indra became extremely affectionate toward him.

yajña-han

  • O destroyer of the sacrifice — SB 4.6.53plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.6.53

    O destroyer of the sacrifice, please take your portion of the sacrifice and let the sacrifice be completed by your grace.

yajña-hanam

  • one who impeded the performance of a yajña — SB 4.19.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.15

    When Atri Muni saw that the son of King Pṛthu did not kill Indra but returned deceived by him, Atri Muni again instructed him to kill the heavenly King because he thought that Indra had become the lowliest of all demigods due to his impeding the execution of King Pṛthu's sacrifice.

yajña-hṛdayam

  • the heart of all sacrifices — SB 4.9.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.9.24

    The Lord continued: I am the heart of all sacrifices. You will be able to perform many great sacrifices and also give great charities. In this way you will be able to enjoy the blessings of material happiness in this life, and at the time of your death you will be able to remember Me.

yajña-īśa

  • O controller of all sacrificial ceremonies — SB 8.17.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.17.8

    The goddess Aditi said: O master and enjoyer of all sacrificial ceremonies, O infallible and most famous person, whose name, when chanted, spreads all good fortune! O original Supreme Personality of Godhead, supreme controller, shelter of all holy places, You are the shelter of all poor, suffering living entities, and You have appeared to diminish their suffering. Please be kind to us and spread our good fortune.
  • O Lord of sacrifice — SB 4.7.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.47

    Dear Lord, we were awaiting Your audience because we have been unable to perform the yajñas according to the Vedic rituals. We pray unto You, therefore, to be pleased with us. Simply by chanting Your holy name, one can surpass all obstacles. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You in Your presence.

yajña-īśa-makhāḥ

  • the performance of devotional service to the Lord of sacrifices — SB 5.19.24plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.24

    An intelligent person does not take interest in a place, even in the topmost planetary system, if the pure Ganges of topics concerning the Supreme Lord's activities does not flow there, if there are not devotees engaged in service on the banks of such a river of piety, or if there are no festivals of saṅkīrtana-yajña to satisfy the Lord [especially since saṅkīrtana-yajña is recommended in this age].

yajña-īśaḥ

  • You are the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 8.23.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.15

    Śukrācārya said: My Lord, You are the enjoyer and lawgiver in all performances of sacrifice, and You are the yajña-puruṣa, the person to whom all sacrifices are offered. If one has fully satisfied You, where is the chance of discrepancies or faults in his performances of sacrifice?

yajña-īśam

  • the master of sacrifices — SB 4.12.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.12.10

    As long as he remained at home, Dhruva Mahārāja performed many great ceremonial sacrifices in order to please the enjoyer of all sacrifices, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Prescribed ceremonial sacrifices are especially meant to please Lord Viṣṇu, who is the objective of all such sacrifices and who awards the resultant benedictions.
  • the master or enjoyer of the yajña — SB 9.14.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.14.47

    By means of that fire, Purūravā, who desired to go to the planet where Urvaśī resided, performed a sacrifice, by which he satisfied the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, the enjoyer of the results of sacrifice. Thus he worshiped the Lord, who is beyond the perception of the senses and is the reservoir of all the demigods.
  • the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the enjoyer of all sacrificial ceremonies — SB 5.4.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.7

    [The second prayer is this.] "Who is a better worshiper of brāhmaṇas than Mahārāja Nābhi? Because he worshiped the qualified brāhmaṇas to their full satisfaction, the brāhmaṇas, by their brahminical prowess, showed Mahārāja Nābhi the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, in person."
  • unto Lord Viṣṇu — SB 4.23.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.23.25

    The wives of the demigods said: All glories to Queen Arci! We can see that this queen of the great King Pṛthu, the emperor of all the kings of the world, has served her husband with mind, speech and body exactly as the goddess of fortune serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Yajñeśa, or Viṣṇu.

yajña-īśvara

  • O master of all sacrifices — SB 3.13.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.29

    Diving into the water like a giant mountain, Lord Boar divided the middle of the ocean, and two high waves appeared as the arms of the ocean, which cried loudly as if praying to the Lord, "O Lord of all sacrifices, please do not cut me in two! Kindly give me protection!"

yajña-īśvara-dhiyā

  • with the perfect intelligence of thinking as part and parcel of the Supreme Lord — SB 4.20.35-36plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.35-36

    King Pṛthu worshiped the demigods, the great sages, the inhabitants of Pitṛloka, the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka and those of Siddhaloka, Cāraṇaloka, Pannagaloka, Kinnaraloka, Apsaroloka, the earthly planets and the planets of the birds. He also worshiped many other living entities who presented themselves in the sacrificial arena. With folded hands he worshiped all these, as well as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the personal associates of the Lord, by offering sweet words and as much wealth as possible. After this function, they all went back to their respective abodes, following in the footsteps of Lord Viṣṇu.

yajña-īśvaram

  • unto the master of all sacrifices — SB 4.7.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.25

    When Lord Viṣṇu accepted the oblations offered in the sacrifice, Dakṣa, the Prajāpati, began with great pleasure to offer respectful prayers unto Him. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is actually the master of all sacrifices and preceptor of all the Prajāpatis, and He is served even by such personalities as Nanda and Sunanda.
  • unto the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead — SB 1.17.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.33

    Therefore, O friend of irreligion, you do not deserve to remain in a place where experts perform sacrifices according to truth and religious principles for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

yajña-kalpaḥ

  • who is ascertained by performance of ritualistic ceremonies — SB 6.8.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.8.15

    The Supreme indestructible Lord is ascertained through the performance of ritualistic sacrifices and is therefore known as Yajñeśvara. In His incarnation as Lord Boar, He raised the planet earth from the water at the bottom of the universe and kept it on His pointed tusks. May that Lord protect me from rogues on the street. May Paraśurāma protect me on the tops of mountains, and may the elder brother of Bharata, Lord Rāmacandra, along with His brother Lakṣmaṇa, protect me in foreign countries.

yajña-kratu-rūpam

  • having the form of sacrifices without animals and sacrifices with animals — SB 5.7.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.7.5

    With great faith King Bharata performed various kinds of sacrifice. He performed the sacrifices known as agni-hotra, darśa, pūrṇamāsa, cāturmāsya, paśu-yajña [wherein a horse is sacrificed] and soma-yajña [wherein a kind of beverage is offered]. Sometimes these sacrifices were performed completely and sometimes partially. In any case, in all the sacrifices the regulations of cāturhotra were strictly followed. In this way Bharata Mahārāja worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

yajña-kratuḥ

  • having the form of sacrifice — SB 4.7.46plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.46

    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 form of a boar, the sound was accepted as a sacrificial hymn, and great sages like Sanaka meditated upon it and offered prayers for Your glorification.

yajña-kṛtaḥ

  • of the performer of the sacrifice (Dakṣa) — SB 4.4.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.7

    When Satī, with her followers, reached the arena, because all the people assembled were afraid of Dakṣa, none of them received her well. No one welcomed her but her mother and sisters, who, with tears in their eyes and with glad faces, welcomed her and talked with her very pleasingly.

yajña-liṅgaḥ

  • the form of sacrifice — SB 3.13.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.13

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Janārdana [Lord Kṛṣṇa], is the form to accept all the results of sacrifice. If He is not satisfied, then one's labor for advancement is futile. He is the ultimate Self, and therefore one who does not satisfy Him certainly neglects his own interests.

yajña-liṅgasya

  • the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices — SB 5.17.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.1

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, Lord Viṣṇu, the enjoyer of all sacrifices, appeared as Vāmanadeva in the sacrificial arena of Bali Mahārāja. Then He extended His left foot to the end of the universe and pierced a hole in its covering with the nail of His big toe. Through the hole, the pure water of the Causal Ocean entered this universe as the Ganges River. Having washed the lotus feet of the Lord, which are covered with reddish powder, the water of the Ganges acquired a very beautiful pink color. Every living being can immediately purify his mind of material contamination by touching the transcendental water of the Ganges, yet its waters remain ever pure. Because the Ganges directly touches the lotus feet of the Lord before descending within this universe, she is known as Viṣṇupadī. Later she received other names like Jāhnavī and Bhāgīrathī. After one thousand millenniums, the water of the Ganges descended on Dhruvaloka, the topmost planet in this universe. Therefore all learned sages and scholars proclaim Dhruvaloka to be Viṣṇupada ["situated on Lord Viṣṇu's lotus feet"].

yajña-mahā-utsavaḥ

  • a great sacrifice — SB 4.3.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.3.8

    Satī said: My dear Lord Śiva, your father-in-law is now executing great sacrifices, and all the demigods, having been invited by him, are going there. If you desire, we may also go.

yajña-mayīm

  • all-inclusive sacrifices — SB 2.7.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.1

    Lord Brahmā said: When the unlimitedly powerful Lord assumed the form of a boar as a pastime, just to lift the planet earth, which was drowned in the great ocean of the universe called the Garbhodaka, the first demon [Hiraṇyākṣa] appeared, and the Lord pierced him with His tusk.

yajña-mūrtinā

  • the form of sacrifices — SB 3.14.2plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.14.2

    Śrī Vidura said: O chief amongst the great sages, I have heard by disciplic succession that Hiraṇyākṣa, the original demon, was slain by the same form of sacrifices, the Personality of Godhead [Lord Boar].

yajña-paśavaḥ

  • the sacrificial animals — SB 4.28.26plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.28.26

    That most unkind king, Purañjana, had killed many animals in various sacrifices. Now, taking advantage of this opportunity, all these animals began to pierce him with their horns. It was as though he were being cut to pieces by axes.

yajña-paśum

  • the animal meant to be sacrificed in the yajña — SB 4.19.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.11

    When Pṛthu Mahārāja was performing the last horse sacrifice [aśvamedha-yajña], King Indra, invisible to everyone, stole the horse intended for sacrifice. He did this because of his great envy of King Pṛthu.

yajña-patiḥ

  • the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 4.19.3plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.19.3

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, is present in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, and He is the proprietor of all planets and the enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices. He was personally present at the sacrifices made by King Pṛthu.    , SB 4.21.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.21.27

    My dear respectable ladies and gentlemen, according to the authoritative statements of śāstra, there must be a supreme authority who is able to award the respective benefits of our present activities. Otherwise, why should there be persons who are unusually beautiful and powerful both in this life and in the life after death?
  • the Lord of all yajñas — SB 4.20.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20.1

    The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, being very much satisfied by the performance of ninety-nine horse sacrifices, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, appeared on the scene. Accompanying Him was King Indra. Lord Viṣṇu then began to speak.

yajña-patim

  • unto the Lord, the enjoyer of all sacrificial ceremonies — SB 8.17.7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.17.7

    O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the demigoddess Aditi then began offering her prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead in a faltering voice and with great love. She appeared as though drinking through her eyes the Supreme Lord, who is the husband of the goddess of fortune, the enjoyer of all sacrificial ceremonies, and the master and Lord of the entire universe.

yajña-pātrāṇi

  • the pots used in the sacrifice — SB 4.5.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.5.15

    They broke all the pots made for use in the sacrifice, and some of them began to extinguish the sacrificial fire. Some tore down the boundary line of the sacrificial arena, and some passed urine on the arena.

yajña-puṁsā

  • with the enjoyer of all yajñas — SB 4.25.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.25.29

    O greatly fortunate one, it appears that you are none of the women I have mentioned because I see that your feet are touching the ground. But if you are some woman of this planet, you can, like the goddess of fortune, who, accompanied by Lord Viṣṇu, increases the beauty of the Vaikuṇṭha planets, also increase the beauty of this city by associating with me. You should understand that I am a great hero and a very powerful king on this planet.

yajña-puruṣa

  • the person who enjoys the benefits of all sacrifices — SB 8.17.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.17.8

    The goddess Aditi said: O master and enjoyer of all sacrificial ceremonies, O infallible and most famous person, whose name, when chanted, spreads all good fortune! O original Supreme Personality of Godhead, supreme controller, shelter of all holy places, You are the shelter of all poor, suffering living entities, and You have appeared to diminish their suffering. Please be kind to us and spread our good fortune.

yajña-puruṣaḥ

  • the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 4.13.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.33

    When Hari, the supreme enjoyer of all sacrifices, is invited to fulfill your desire for a son, all the demigods will come with Him and take their shares in the sacrifice.    , SB 4.14.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.14.25

    You are so much devoted to the demigods, but who are they? Indeed, your affection for these demigods is exactly like the affection of an unchaste woman who neglects her married life and gives all attention to her paramour.
  • the person who is pleased by performances of sacrifice — SB 2.7.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.11

    The Lord appeared as the Hayagrīva incarnation in a sacrifice performed by me [Brahmā]. He is the personified sacrifices, and the hue of His body is golden. He is the personified Vedas as well, and the Supersoul of all demigods. When He breathed, all the sweet sounds of the Vedic hymns came out of His nostrils.
  • who accepts all results of sacrifices — SB 5.18.34plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.34

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Dear King, the Supreme Lord in His boar incarnation, who accepts all sacrificial offerings, lives in the northern part of Jambūdvīpa. There, in the tract of land known as Uttarakuru-varṣa, mother earth and all the other inhabitants worship Him with unfailing devotional service by repeatedly chanting the following Upaniṣad mantra.
  • You are the person for whose pleasure all sacrifices are offered — SB 8.23.15plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.23.15

    Śukrācārya said: My Lord, You are the enjoyer and lawgiver in all performances of sacrifice, and You are the yajña-puruṣa, the person to whom all sacrifices are offered. If one has fully satisfied You, where is the chance of discrepancies or faults in his performances of sacrifice?

yajña-pūruṣaḥ

  • the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 4.13.4plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.4

    While all the Pracetās were executing religious rituals and sacrificial ceremonies and thus worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead for His satisfaction, the great sage Nārada described the transcendental qualities of Dhruva Mahārāja.
  • who is the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 4.14.18plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.14.18

    The king is supposed to be pious in whose state and cities the general populace strictly observes the system of eight social orders of varṇa and āśrama, and where all citizens engage in worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead by their particular occupations.

yajña-puruṣam

  • Lord Viṣṇu — SB 3.22.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.22.31

    Manu spread a seat of kuśas and kāśas and worshiped the Lord, the Personality of Godhead, by whose grace he had obtained the rule of the terrestrial globe.
  • Lord Viṣṇu, the master and enjoyer of all performances of sacrifice — SB 5.3.1plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.3.1

    Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak: Mahārāja Nābhi, the son of Āgnīdhra, wished to have sons, and therefore he attentively began to offer prayers and worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, the master and enjoyer of all sacrifices. Mahārāja Nābhi's wife, Merudevī, who had not given birth to any children at that time, also worshiped Lord Viṣṇu along with her husband.
  • the yajña-puruṣa, the Lord — SB 9.18.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.18.48

    King Yayāti performed various sacrifices, in which he offered abundant gifts to the brāhmaṇas to satisfy the Supreme Lord, Hari, who is the reservoir of all the demigods and the object of all Vedic knowledge.
  • who accepts all kinds of sacrificial ceremonies — SB 5.14.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.29

    The personal weapon used by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the disc, is called hari-cakra, the disc of Hari. This cakra is the wheel of time. It expands from the beginning of the atoms up to the time of Brahmā's death, and it controls all activities. It is always revolving and spending the lives of the living entities, from Lord Brahmā down to an insignificant blade of grass. Thus one changes from infancy, to childhood, to youth and maturity, and thus one approaches the end of life. It is impossible to check this wheel of time. This wheel is very exacting because it is the personal weapon of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes the conditioned soul, fearing the approach of death, wants to worship someone who can save him from imminent danger. Yet he does not care for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose weapon is the indefatigable time factor. The conditioned soul instead takes shelter of a man-made god described in unauthorized scriptures. Such gods are like buzzards, vultures, herons and crows. Vedic scriptures do not refer to them. Imminent death is like the attack of a lion, and neither vultures, buzzards, crows nor herons can save one from such an attack. One who takes shelter of unauthorized man-made gods cannot be saved from the clutches of death.

yajña-puruṣasya

  • who is worshiped by Vedic ritualistic ceremonies — SB 5.14.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.30

    The pseudo svāmīs, yogīs and incarnations who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead are known as pāṣaṇḍīs. They themselves are fallen and cheated because they do not know the real path of spiritual advancement, and whoever goes to them is certainly cheated in his turn. When one is thus cheated, he sometimes takes shelter of the real followers of Vedic principles [brāhmaṇas or those in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], who teach everyone how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the Vedic rituals. However, being unable to stick to these principles, these rascals again fall down and take shelter among śūdras who are very expert in making arrangements for sex indulgence. Sex is very prominent among animals like monkeys, and such people who are enlivened by sex may be called descendants of monkeys.

yajña-puruṣe

  • the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 5.7.6plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.7.6

    After performing the preliminaries of various sacrifices, Mahārāja Bharata offered the results in the name of religion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. In other words, he performed all the yajñas for the satisfaction of Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. Mahārāja Bharata thought that since the demigods were different parts of Vāsudeva's body, He controls those who are explained in the Vedic mantras. By thinking in this way, Mahārāja Bharata was freed from all material contamination, such as attachment, lust and greed. When the priests were about to offer the sacrificial ingredients into the fire, Mahārāja Bharata expertly understood how the offering made to different demigods was simply an offering to the different limbs of the Lord. For instance, Indra is the arm of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Sūrya [the sun] is His eye. Thus Mahārāja Bharata considered that the oblations offered to different demigods were actually offered unto the different limbs of Lord Vāsudeva.

yajña-sadasi

  • in the assembly of the sacrifice — SB 4.4.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.9

    Present in the arena of sacrifice, Satī saw that there were no oblations for her husband, Lord Śiva. Next she realized that not only had her father failed to invite Lord Śiva, but when he saw Lord Śiva's exalted wife, Dakṣa did not receive her either. Thus she became greatly angry, so much so that she looked at her father as if she were going to burn him with her eyes.

yajña-śālāsu

  • in the sacrificial fire — SB 4.4.21plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.21

    My dear father, the opulence we possess is impossible for either you or your flatterers to imagine, for persons who engage in fruitive activities by performing great sacrifices are concerned with satisfying their bodily necessities by eating foodstuff offered as a sacrifice. We can exhibit our opulences simply by desiring to do so. This can be achieved only by great personalities who are renounced, self-realized souls.

yajña-sampadaḥ

  • paraphernalia for performing yajña, or the means for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead — SB 7.14.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.16

    When one is enriched with wealth and knowledge which are under his full control and by means of which he can perform yajña or please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one must perform sacrifices, offering oblations to the fire according to the directions of the śāstras. In this way one should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

yajña-śeṣam

  • the last ritualistic ceremony of the sacrifice — SB 9.8.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.8.29

    Thereafter, Aṁśumān circumambulated Kapila Muni and offered Him respectful obeisances, bowing his head. After fully satisfying Him in this way, Aṁśumān brought back the horse meant for sacrifice, and with this horse Mahārāja Sagara performed the remaining ritualistic ceremonies.

yajña-śīlāḥ

  • expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies — SB 5.4.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.13

    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.

yajña-śīlān

  • persons engaged in offering sacrifices — SB 10.4.40plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.4.40

    O King, we, who are your adherents in all respects, shall therefore kill the Vedic brāhmaṇas, the persons engaged in offering sacrifices and austerities, and the cows that supply milk, from which clarified butter is obtained for the ingredients of sacrifice.

yajña-śiṣṭa

  • as a result of such performances of yajña — Bg. 4.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.30

    All these performers who know the meaning of sacrifice become cleansed of sinful reaction, and, having tasted the nectar of the remnants of such sacrifice, they go to the supreme eternal atmosphere.
  • food taken after performance of yajña — Bg. 3.13plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.13

    The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.

yajña-sūkaraḥ

  • in His boar form, the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 3.19.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.19.9

    O saintly Vidura, while His enemy looked on, the Lord in His boar form, the enjoyer of all sacrificial offerings, playfully knocked down the mace with His left foot, even as it came upon Him with the force of a tempest.

yajña-sūtra

  • sacred thread — Ādi 5.123plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 5.123

    He serves Lord Kṛṣṇa, assuming all the following forms: umbrella, slippers, bedding, pillow, garments, resting chair, residence, sacred thread and throne.

yajña-ucchiṣṭam

  • the remnants of sacrifice — SB 6.19.16plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.19.16

    Thereafter, with devotion and humility, one should offer prayers to the Lord and mother Lakṣmī. Then one should smell the remnants of the food offered and then again worship the Lord and Lakṣmījī.

yajña-vāstu-gatam

  • things belonging to the sacrificial arena — SB 9.4.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.8

    The father of Nābhāga said: Whatever the great sages sacrificed in the arena of the Dakṣa-yajña, they offered to Lord Śiva as his share. Therefore, everything in the sacrificial arena certainly belongs to Lord Śiva.

yajña-vidaḥ

  • conversant with the purpose of performing — Bg. 4.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.30

    All these performers who know the meaning of sacrifice become cleansed of sinful reaction, and, having tasted the nectar of the remnants of such sacrifice, they go to the supreme eternal atmosphere.

yajña-vighnāḥ

  • obstacles — SB 4.7.47plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.47

    Dear Lord, we were awaiting Your audience because we have been unable to perform the yajñas according to the Vedic rituals. We pray unto You, therefore, to be pleased with us. Simply by chanting Your holy name, one can surpass all obstacles. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You in Your presence.

yajña-vīryāya

  • unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is able to give the results of sacrifice — SB 6.9.31plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.9.31

    The demigods said: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are competent to give the results of sacrifice, and You are also the time factor that destroys all such results in due course. You are the one who releases the cakra to kill the demons. O Lord, who possess many varieties of names, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You.

yajña-vit-tamāḥ

  • who know perfectly well the purpose of sacrifice — SB 7.15.9plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.9

    Because of an awakening of spiritual knowledge, those who are intelligent in regard to sacrifice, who are actually aware of religious principles and who are free from material desires, control the self in the fire of spiritual knowledge, or knowledge of the Absolute Truth. They may give up the process of ritualistic ceremonies.

yajña-vitānam

  • of spreading the sacrifice — SB 3.1.33plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.1.33

    As the Vedas are the reservoir of sacrificial purposes, so the daughter of King Devaka-bhoja conceived the Supreme Personality of Godhead in her womb, as did the mother of the demigods. Is she [Devakī] doing well?

akhila-yajña-tantave

  • the enjoyer of all sacrifices — SB 3.19.30plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.19.30

    The demigods addressed the Lord: All obeisances unto You! You are the enjoyer of all sacrifices, and You have assumed the form of a boar, in pure goodness, for the purpose of maintaining the world. Fortunately for us, this demon, who was a torment to the worlds, has been slain by You, and we too, O Lord, are now at ease, in devotion to Your lotus feet.

brahma-brāhmaṇa-yajña-puruṣa-loka-vidūṣakāḥ

  • blasphemous toward the Vedas, the strict brāhmaṇas, ritualistic ceremonies such as sacrifice, and toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the devotees — SB 5.6.10plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.6.10

    People who are lowest among men and bewildered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Lord will give up the original varṇāśrama-dharma and its rules and regulations. They will abandon bathing three times daily and worshiping the Lord. Abandoning cleanliness and neglecting the Supreme Lord, they will accept nonsensical principles. Not regularly bathing or washing their mouths regularly, they will always remain unclean, and they will pluck out their hair. Following a concocted religion, they will flourish. During this age of Kali, people are more inclined to irreligious systems. Consequently these people will naturally deride Vedic authority, the followers of Vedic authority, the brāhmaṇas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the devotees.

hṛta-yajña

  • devoid of sacrificial — SB 1.16.20plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.16.20

    I have lost my three legs and am now standing on one only. Are you lamenting for my state of existence? Or are you in great anxiety because henceforward the unlawful meat-eaters will exploit you? Or are you in a sorry plight because the demigods are now bereft of their share of sacrificial offerings because no sacrifices are being performed at present? Or are you grieving for living beings because of their sufferings due to famine and drought?

mahā-yajña

  • great sacrifice — Antya 3.240plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.240

    "I have been initiated into a vow to perform a great sacrifice by chanting the holy name a certain number of times every day.

pāka-yajña-vidhānena

  • according to the injunctions of the Gṛhya-sūtras — SB 6.19.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.19.22

    On the morning of the next day, one should wash oneself, and after worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa as before, one should cook as one cooks for festivals as stated in the Gṛhya-sūtras. Sweet rice should be cooked with ghee, and with this preparation the husband should offer oblations to the fire twelve times.

pitṛ-yajña-mahā-utsavam

  • the great festival of sacrifice performed by her father — SB 4.3.5-7plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.3.5-7

    The chaste lady Satī, the daughter of Dakṣa, heard the heavenly denizens flying in the sky conversing about the great sacrifice being performed by her father. When she saw that from all directions the beautiful wives of the heavenly denizens, their eyes very beautifully glittering, were near her residence and were going to the sacrifice dressed in fine clothing and ornamented with earrings and necklaces with lockets, she approached her husband, the master of the bhūtas, in great anxiety, and spoke as follows.

sarva-yajña

  • all kinds of religious rituals and sacrifices — SB 8.16.60plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.16.60

    This payo-vrata is also known as sarva-yajña. In other words, by performing this sacrifice one can perform all other sacrifices automatically. This is also acknowledged to be the best of all ritualistic ceremonies. O gentle lady, it is the essence of all austerities, and it is the process of giving charity and pleasing the supreme controller.

sarva-yajña-bhuk

  • the enjoyer of the results of all kinds of sacrifices — SB 7.14.17plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.14.17

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is the enjoyer of sacrificial offerings. Yet although His Lordship eats the oblations offered in the fire, my dear King, He is still more satisfied when nice food made of grains and ghee is offered to Him through the mouths of qualified brāhmaṇas.

tat-yajña-sadanam

  • the arena of sacrifice — SB 9.6.27plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.27

    Being thirsty one night, the King entered the arena of sacrifice, and when he saw all the brāhmaṇas lying down, he personally drank the sanctified water meant to be drunk by his wife.