व्यपदिशन्ति ॥९॥
yeá¹£Äá¹ khalu mahÄ-yogÄ« bharato jyeá¹£á¹haḥ Å›reá¹£á¹ha-guṇa ÄsÄ«d yenedaá¹ vará¹£aá¹ bhÄratam iti vyapadiÅ›anti
yeá¹£Äm - of whom; khalu - indeed; mahÄ-yogÄ« - a very highly exalted devotee of the Lord; bharataḥ - Bharata; jyeá¹£á¹haḥ - the eldest; Å›reá¹£á¹ha-guṇaḥ - qualified with the best attributes; ÄsÄ«t - was; yena - by whom; idam - this; vará¹£am - planet; bhÄratam - BhÄrata; iti - thus; vyapadiÅ›anti - people call.
Of Ṛṣabhadeva’s one hundred sons, the eldest, named Bharata, was a great, exalted devotee qualified with the best attributes. In his honor, this planet has become known as BhÄrata-vará¹£a.
This planet known as BhÄrata-vará¹£a is also called puṇya-bhÅ«mi, the pious land. At the present moment BhÄrata-bhÅ«mi, or BhÄrata-vará¹£a, is a small piece of land extending from the HimÄlaya Mountains to Cape Comorin. Sometimes this peninsula is called puṇya-bhÅ«mi. ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu has given special importance to the people of this land.
bhÄrata-bhÅ«mite haila manuá¹£ya-janma yÄra
janma sÄrthaka kari’ kara para-upakÄra
“One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India (BhÄrata-vará¹£a) should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people.†(Cc. Ä€di 9.41) The inhabitants of this piece of land are very fortunate. They can purify their existence by accepting this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and go outside BhÄrata-bhÅ«mi (India) and preach this cult to benefit the whole world.
