# Recovering the Vedas: Bhadraśravā worships Hayagriva in Bhadrāśva-varṣa (5th Canto #20)

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Published: 2026-05-24T03:00:00+00:00
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Subscribe to receive new articles by e-mail. It’s free, but if you like, you can pledge a donation: Join the Telegram group if you would like to join the live lessons. This course is maintained with your donations. Click here to donate . 💬 Text of the lesson Recovering the Vedas: Bhadraśravā worships Hayaśīrṣa in Bhadrāśva-varṣa Bhadrāśva-varṣa is the tract of land east of Ilāvṛta-varṣa, ruled by Bhadraśravā, the son of Yamarāja. The Lord is present there in His form of Hayaśīrṣa (or Hayagrīva), the director of all religious principles and protector of the Vedas. At the end of each day of Brahmā, the Vedas are stolen by ignorance personified, who hides them in the lower planetary systems. Normally, the Lord, who is present as Matsya, acting as the maintainer of all living beings, fights with the demon and saves the Vedas, transmitting them again to Brahmā at the beginning of his next day. At the end of the previous day, however, the Lord appeared as Hayagrīva (the horse-headed incarnation) to fight with the demon and save the Vedas. This appears to be connected with the universal destruction at the end of the first half of the life of Brahma, which is a special event, different from the end of the other days of Brahmā. How is it that the Vedas can be stolen by a demon? In his purport, Prabhupāda connects it with the Vedas being forgotten and then transmitted again at the beginning of the next cycle of creation: “Although Vedic knowledge is imperishable, within this material world it is sometimes manifest and sometimes not. When the people of this material world become too absorbed in ignorance, the Vedic knowledge disappears. Lord Hayagrīva or Lord Matsya, however, always protects the Vedic knowledge, and in due course of time it is again distributed through the medium…

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