Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /41

OF CULTURE
 
here the divine son of Vyasa, SL
 
There the divine son of Vyasa, Suka,

arrived accidentally, wandering as he

was all over the world, looking forward

to nothing. The royal devotee of God,

Parikshit, approached him, bowed to him

and enquired of him in pleasing words:
 
यति मंत्रालय
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 

 
'पुरुषस्येह यत् कार्ययं नियमाणस्य सर्वथा ।

श्रोतव्यं भजनीययं वा ब्रूहि यद्वा विपर्ययम् ॥'
 

" What a dying person should, at any

cost, do, listen to or worship, or what

he should not, tell me."
 

 
एवमाभाषितः पृष्टः स राज्ञा प्रत्यभाषत ॥
 

Thus addressed and requested by the

king, Suka replied.
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 

 
श्रीशुकः-

'वरीयानेष ते प्रश्नः कृतो लोकहितं नृप ।
 

Suka-
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Most excellent is this enquiry of

yours; for, O King, this is for the

good of the world.
 
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श्रोतव्यादीनि राजेन्द्र नृणां सन्ति सहस्रशः ।

अपश्यतामात्मतत्त्वं गृहेषु गृहमेधिनाम् ॥