Devanagari
त्रय्या च विद्यया केचित्त्वां वै वैतानिका द्विजा: ।
यजन्ते विततैर्यज्ञैर्नाना रूपामराख्यया ॥ ५ ॥
Verse text
trayyā ca vidyayā kecit
tvāṁ vai vaitānikā dvijāḥ
yajante vitatair yajṣair
nānā-rūpāmarākhyayā
Synonyms
trayyā
—
of the three Vedas
;
ca
—
and
;
vidyayā
—
by the mantras
;
kecit
—
some
;
tvām
—
You
;
vai
—
indeed
;
vaitānikāḥ
—
who respect the regulations of the three sacred fires
;
dvijāḥ
—
brāhmaṇas
;
yajante
—
worship
;
vitataiḥ
—
elaborate
;
yajṣaiḥ
—
with ritual sacrifices
;
nānā
—
various
;
rūpa
—
having forms
;
amara
—
of demigods
;
ākhyayā
—
by the designations .
Translation
Brāhmaṇas who follow the regulations concerning the three sacred fires worship You by chanting mantras from the three Vedas and performing elaborate fire sacrifices for the various demigods, who have many forms and names.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Brāhmaṇas who follow the regulations concerning the three sacred fires worship You by chanting mantras from the three Vedas and performing elaborate fire sacrifices for the various demigods, who have many forms and names.
KB 10.40.5
“Some of the learned brāhmaṇas also worship You by observing Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. They offer different kinds of sacrifices in the names of different gods.
Purport
Akrūra has now described how those who follow the paths of Sāṅkhya,
yoga
and the three
Vedas
worship the Supreme Lord in different ways. In the various places where the
Vedas
appear to recommend that one worship Indra, Varuṇa and other demigods, these demigods are stated to be supreme. But at the same time the
Vedas
state that there is one supreme controller, the Absolute Truth. That is Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who expands His potency through material creation into the forms of the demigods. Thus worship of the demigods goes to Him through the indirect method of
karma-kāṇḍa,
or fruitive religious rituals. Ultimately, however, one who wants to achieve eternal perfection should worship the Lord directly, in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
This verse describes those following the path of karma. The karma yogis (vaitanikah) actually worship you.
"But they worship Indra and Varuna, not me."
"Whatever forms with various weapons in their hands they worship, actually is worship of you. Thought the vedic suktas praise Indra and others as having full power of the lord, the scriptures also do not state that there are many supreme lords. (therefore those names indicate the supreme lord only.) Thus through the names of the devatas, you, the supreme lord, are actually worshipped. Sruti says, "He is first, he was prakrtih, he was visvakarma. He was the first mitra, varuna and agni. He was the first brhaspati. In this way offerings were made to Indra (supreme lord)."
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the last verse showed how the followers of Sāṅkhya worship him. In this verse he shows how the followers of karma worship him, and in the next he shows how the jñānīs worship him. Or the verse can illustrate what is said in the Gītā:
te taṁ bhuktvā svarga-lokaṁ viśālaṁ
kṣīṇe puṇye martya-lokaṁ viśanti |
evaṁ trayī-dharmam anuprapannā
gatāgataṁ kāma-kāmā labhante ||
Having enjoyed the vast pleasures of Svarga and exhausting their merit, they return to this planet. Following the rites of the three Vedas, desiring objects of enjoyment, they take repeated birth and death. BG 9.21
The word ca indicates the secondary, indirect nature of this worship. They worship you through many types of sacrifices with various devatā forms.
Purport (Sanatana Goswami)
Because they are qualified for the three Vedas, the brāhmaṇas worship you with many types of sacrifices.