What is pumundi? (And Bhima the son of Varuna)

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Yesterday was an interesting day for errors.

 

In the morning at my bhakti-sastri class on Bhagavad-gita we came upon

a fine error in the twelfth chapter. I'm giving class from the second

edition but keep an old first edition on hand, just to point out some

of the errors we had to correct. Here's the one from yesterday:

 

"There are many descriptions of sacrifices and special functions

of the pumundi or special work in which the result of one's

previous action may be applied. Thus one may gradually become

elevated to the state of knowledge."

 

That's in Bhagavad-gita 12.11.

 

Pumundi? Unusual word. Doesn't show up anywhere else in Srila

Prabhupada's books. The Sanskrit dictionary doesn't have it either.

Could it be Italian?

 

The word should be "punya," and in the second edition that's what it

is.

 

Next. . .

 

During our nightly Krsna Book reading, we happen to read from an old

Krsna Book printed in 1974. And here's what turned up last night, in

the chapter "The Liberation of King Jarasandha":

 

"It is said that Bhima was born of the demigod Varuna and that

Arjuna was born of the demigod Indra, whereas King Yudhisthira

himself was born of the demigod Yamaraja."

 

Bhima born of Varuna?

 

The new, revised edition has it right: Vayu.

 

Hare Krsna.

 

 

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