Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.69.34
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pūrtayantam
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fulfilling (by public works)
Causative of √pṝ (to fill, complete). Pūrta-dharma — works of public benefit (wells, parks, maṭhas, alms-houses) — is a classical category of householder duty paired with iṣṭa (Vedic sacrifices). Kṛṣṇa does both, modeling iṣṭāpūrta-dharma in its entirety.
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kūrpa-ārāma-maṭha
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wells, public parks, monasteries
Compound: kūrpa (well) + ārāma (pleasure garden, rest-house) + maṭha (monastery). The canonical list of pūrta-works. Gauḍīyas note: maṭhas — institutions of sevā — figure here, and the same tradition is continued through Mahāprabhu's followers building maṭhas in Bengal and Vraja.
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kratubhiḥ ūrjitaiḥ
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with full-blown sacrifices
Compound: kratu (Vedic sacrifice) + ūrjita (powerful, full-blown). Aśvamedha-class sacrifices. Bhagavān, who is Himself the yajña-puruṣa (BG 9.16), conducts yajñas — the recipient performs the offering, dignifying the form.
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sakalān devān
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all the demigods
sakala (all, complete) + deva. Kṛṣṇa worships the devas — His own portions and energies — to teach proper respect for Vedic hierarchy. Gauḍīyas: this is not henotheism but pedagogy; the Lord shows that recognising deva-tattva is part of being a proper Vaiṣṇava.
Sometimes, during Caitra and other auspicious months, during caturmasya or other holy days, Krsna would worship the devas. At other times such as celebration of the beginning of the yuga (yugadi = askaya tritiya????), he would be digging wells.
He worshipped his expansions, the devatās, in deity form and he worshipped the Vaiṣṇavas directly (sakalān devān) by elaborate sacrifices and worship. He performed actions of pūrti (piety). Instead of mathādibhiḥ sometimes ālayādibhiḥ (temples) is seen.
He worship the devatās who were his vibhūtis (sakalān). Or he worshipped devatās even though they were his expansion, or he worshipped his Viṣṇu forms (devān) though they were his expansions (sakalān), by great sacrifices. He executed public works as part of dharma by making wells, parks and temples. Ādibhiḥ indicates ponds and lakes. The list is in order of increasing excellence.
- Where could my religion become more visible in service to public welfare?
- What 'well' could I help dig — material or spiritual — for the benefit of many?
A great householder digs wells where there are no rivers, plants public gardens where there are no shade-trees, builds maṭhas where there are no teachers — and in another room offers the great Vedic sacrifices to the devas. The same dharma feeds the village and the gods; Kṛṣṇa keeps both fires lit.
My note
Source: vedabase.io