One day, having performed his daily rites, bodily needs and taken bath, he was sitting on the bank of the river chanting Kṛṣṇa mantras for three muhūrtas. The Eighth Chapter describes how Bharata raised a fawn, and meditating on it, attained the body of a deer in his next life. Kṛṣṇa, an ocean of cleverness, protected this deer who was previously Bharata to show that compassion, if it is an obstacle to bhakti, must be given up. The Lord shows his affection for his devotee by protecting Bharata in the form of a deer, so that he would fall in the ocean of remorse in order to drown in the ocean of prema. He had performed his daily rites, necessities like passing urine and bathing. Abhiseka is placed first in the dvandva compound because of having less syllables and being similar to words like aja in usage. Brahmāksaram means the syllables of a Kṛṣṇa mantra. Abhigṛṇāhaṇ means uttering.