{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk12ch13.htm","path":"hin/db/bk12ch13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk12ch13.htm","text":"THE TWELFTH BOOK\nChapter XIII\nOn the description of Janamejaya\u2019s Dev\u00ee Yaj\u00f1\u00e2\n1-4. Vy\u00e2sa said :-- O King Janamejaya! Thus I have answered all your nice queries; also what N\u00e2r\u00e2yana spoke to the highsouled N\u00e2rada is also said by me. He who hears this greatly wonderful Pur\u00e2nam S\u2019r\u00ee Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam certainly becomes dear to the Dev\u00ee and all his actions become fructified with success. Now as regards your mental distress, how you prevent any evil falling to your late father in his future life, I advise you to do the Yaj\u00f1\u00e2 in the name of Bhagavat\u00ee; and certainly your father will be saved. And you also better take the Most Excellent Mantra of the Mah\u00e2 Dev\u00ee duly, according to rules; and your human life will then be crowned with success; (your life will be saved; thus you as well as your father will be saved).\n5-12. S\u00fbta said :-- O Risis! Hearing thus, the King asked Vy\u00e2sa Deva to initiate in the Great Dev\u00ee Mantra and thus to become his Guru. He was then initiated duly according to rules with the Great Mantra of Bhagavat\u00ee united with Pranava. When the Navar\u00e2tra period arrived, he called Dhaumya and other Br\u00e2hmanas and performed the Navar\u00e2tra Vrata so very dear to the Dev\u00ee, according to his state. At this time for the satisfaction of the Dev\u00ee, he caused this Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavata Pur\u00e2na to be read by the Br\u00e2hmanas and fed innumerable Br\u00e2hmanas and Kum\u00e2r\u00ees (virgins) and gave in charity lots of things to the poor, orphans, and the Br\u00e2hmin boys and thus finished the Vrata. O Risis! Thus completing the Dev\u00eeyaj\u00f1\u00e2, while the King was sitting on his seat, the fiery Devarsi N\u00e2rada came there from above playing with his lute. Seeing him there, all on a sudden, the King got up, and paid due respects to him by asking him to take his seat, with other necessary things. When the Devarsi became relieved of his labour of journey, the King asked him about his welfare and then enquired into the cause of his coming there.\n13-19. O Devarsi! Whence and what for are you now coming? By your arrival here I am become blessed and feel that my Lord has come to me; now what can I serve to you; kindly command and oblige. Hearing this, the Devarsi N\u00e2rada said :-- \u201cO King! Today I saw in the Devaloka a very wonderful event. I wanted eagerly to inform that to you. Hence I have come here. Your father met with a bad turn of fate for his bad action. I saw today he assumed a divine form and he was going on a chariot. The Devas were praising him and the Apsar\u00e2s were encircling him. It seemed he\nwas going in that dress to the Mani Dv\u00eepa. O King! You performed the Navar\u00e2tra Vrata and read the Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavata; it seems, as a result of that, your father has now been rewarded with such a noble and good turn of fate. Now you have become blessed and your actions have borne fruits. You have delivered your father from the hell and so you have become an ornament in your family. Today your name and fame have extended to the Devaloka.\u201d\n20-30. S\u00fbta said :-- O Risis! Hearing these words from the mouth of N\u00e2rada, the King Janamejaya became very much happy and delighted and fell prostrate at the feet of Vy\u00e2sa Deva of glorious deeds and said :-- O Best of Munis! By Thy Grace, today I have become blessed. Now what return can I pay to Thee save bowing down to Thee. I pray that Thou dost shew such favours to me ever and again. O Risis! Hearing these words of the King Janamejaya, V\u00e2dar\u00e2yana Veda Vy\u00e2sa blessed him and spoke to him in sweet words :-- \u201cO King! Now leave all other actions. Read always the Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavata and worship the Lotus Feet of S\u2019r\u00ee Dev\u00ee. Leave off all laziness and now perform the Dev\u00ee Yaj\u00f1\u00e2 with great ecl\u00e2t. And you will surely be able to cross this bondage of the world. True there are various Pur\u00e2nas, the Visnu Pur\u00e2na, the S\u2019iva Pur\u00e2na, but those cannot compare with one sixteenth of this Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam. In fact, this Pur\u00e2na is the Essence of all the Pur\u00e2nas. How can the other Pur\u00e2nas be compared with this, wherein is established the Dev\u00ee M\u00fbla Prakriti? Reading this Pur\u00e2na from the beginning to the end yields the result of reading the Vedas. So the wise persons should try their best to study it always.\u201d Thus saying to Janamejaya, Veda Vy\u00e2sa departed. Then the pure minded Dhaumya and the other Br\u00e2hmanas highly praised the Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam and went to their desired places. And the King Janamejaya, on the other hand, began to read and hear always the Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam and spent his days happily in governing his kingdom.\nHere end the Thirteenth Chapter of the Twelfth Book on the description of Janamejaya\u2019s Dev\u00ee Yaj\u00f1\u00e2 in the Mah\u00e2 Pur\u00e2nam S\u2019r\u00ee Mad Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam of 18000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vy\u00e2sa.","title":"The Devi Bhagavatam: The Twelfth Book: Chapter 13","type":"page"}