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# Bhagavatapurana 3.1.1

Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3.1.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.1.1)

/0 śrī-śuka uvāca  
evam etat purā pṛṣṭo maitreyo bhagavān kila /  
kṣattrā vanaṃ praviṣṭena tyaktvā sva-gṛham ṛddhimat //

> 1 & 2. Sri Suka said:—In the same manner and about this (very subject), the venerable Maitreya was formerly asked (it is said) by Vidura who had left his prosperous house and betaken himself to the forest;—his (Vidura's) house in which, indeed, Sri Krishna, the counsellor (of your ancestors, the Pandavas) and the Lord of all, lodged as in his own, after quitting the palace of the Paurava king.  
> — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Srimad Bhagavatam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-subbarau.3.1.p2) — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.3.1.1) — English, machine translation

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