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  1. 1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
  3. 3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
  4. 4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
  5. 5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
  6. 6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.
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Canto 4 · Chapter 30: The Activities of the Pracetās
4.30.464.30.48

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.30.47

Visarga· Brahmā's creation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Maitreya Ṛṣisince 4.30.43inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitMaitreya Ṛṣi → Vidura
A turning point forThe Pracetās· Anger meets restraint

तत्रावशिष्टा ये वृक्षा भीता दुहितरं तदा ।

उज्जह्रुस्ते प्रचेतोभ्य उपदिष्टा: स्वयम्भुवा ॥ ४७ ॥

tatrāvaśiṣṭā ye vṛkṣā

bhītā duhitaraṁ tadā

ujjahrus te pracetobhya

upadiṣṭāḥ svayambhuvā

Translation

The remaining trees, being very much afraid of the Pracetās, immediately delivered their daughter at the advice of Lord Brahmā.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Brahmā’s Advice Helped Pacify the Pracetās

  1. 1

    The remaining trees feared the Pracetās and followed Lord Brahmā’s advice. Their predominating deity delivered Māriṣā to the Pracetās to pacify them.

  2. 2

    Māriṣā was born of Kaṇḍu and Pramlocā. After her mother left, the king of the moon saved her, and the trees cared for her.

  3. 3

    The purport explains that “trees” here refers to their controlling deity. Under Lord Brahmā’s direction, Māriṣā was given to the Pracetās as their wife.

Key points from the purport
  • The daughter of the trees is referred to in text 13 of this chapter.
  • This child was cared for by the trees, and when she grew up, by the order of Lord Brahmā, she was delivered to the Pracetās as their wife.
  • To pacify the Pracetās, the predominating deity of the trees, under the advice of Lord Brahmā, delivered the daughter Māriṣā.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Search → Devotional resolution. Prayer and instruction redirect household and societal life.

Chapters 30–31 of Canto 4: Pracetās and Nārada's concluding guidance. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 30: The Activities of the Pracetās

The Lord appears to the Pracetās, who pray only for His satisfaction; Brahmā later pacifies them.

Back to this verse in chapter 4.30
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. tatrathere
  2. avaśiṣṭāḥremaining
  3. yewhich
  4. vṛkṣāḥtrees
  5. bhītāḥbeing afraid
  6. duhitaramtheir daughter
  7. tadāat that time
  8. ujjahruḥdelivered
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Key ideas in this verse

The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.

  • Visarga · Subcreation

    How do living beings and their worlds appear? · Subject 2 of 10

  • Abhaya · Fearlessness

    Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 4.30

    In this verse: “afraid”, “feared”

  • Rāja-dharma · Devotional leadership

    Serving and protecting through responsibility. · Theme in SB 4.30

    In this verse: “king”

  • Vātsalya · Parental affection

    Affection and protective concern for the Lord as a child. · Theme in SB 4.30

    In this verse: “mother”

Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I willing to seek guidance when fear or conflict makes a situation difficult?

Practice

Ask a trusted person for advice about one strained interaction, with the aim of restoring peace.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayBrahmā’s Advice Helped Pacify the PracetāsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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