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Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.2) yaḥ pañca-hāyano mātrā prātar-āśāya yācitaḥ / tan naicchad racayan yasya saparyāṃ bāla-līlayā // > He who, at five years old, when called by his mother for breakfast, / did not want it, being engaged in worshiping Him in child's play— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 2. As a lad of five years (of age), invited by his mother to take his breakfast, he did not care for it, since, in his child-like play, he was worshipping Him (Sri Krishna, the Deity). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.3) sa kathaṃ sevayā tasya kālena jarasaṃ gataḥ / pṛṣṭo vārtāṃ pratibrūyād bhartuḥ pādāv anusmaran // > how, having grown old in time through His service, / when questioned about news, could he reply, remembering his Master's feet? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 3. How could he make a reply, who (thus) grew to be an old man, by worshipping Him through (a long period of) life and who began to contemplate His feet on being asked about the tidings of Sri Krishna? > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.4) sa muhūrtam abhūt tūṣṇīṃ kṛṣṇāṅghri-sudhayā bhṛśam / tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena nimagnaḥ sādhu nirvṛtaḥ // > For a moment he became silent, deeply absorbed in the nectar of Kṛṣṇa's feet / through intense bhakti-yoga, thoroughly serene. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 4. For an hour he became mute, highly rejoiced at the nectar of Sri Krishna's feet, and deeply immersed (in that flood), through intense devotion (kindled in his heart). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.5) pulakodbhinna-sarvāṅgo muñcan mīlad-dṛśā śucaḥ / pūrṇārtho lakṣitas tena sneha-prasara-samplutaḥ // > With his whole body trembling with bristling hair, shedding tears of sorrow from closed eyes, / he was seen to have attained his goal, inundated by the surge of affection. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 5. His hair standing on end all over his body, shedding tears from his closed eyes, overwhelmed with the flood of love (to the Almighty Lord), Uddhava was (then) perceived by him (Vidura) as one whose highest purpose was accomplished (to be the recipient of the full measure of the Lord's grace). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.6) śanakair bhagaval-lokān nṛlokaṃ punar āgataḥ / vimṛjya netre viduraṃ prītyāhoddhava utsmayan // > Slowly returning from the Lord's realm back to the world of mortals, / Uddhava wiped his eyes and, smiling with love, spoke to Vidura. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 6. Slowly he (Uddhava) came back from the world of the Lord to the mortal world, and wiping his eyes spoke to Vidura with a wondrous smile. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.7) /0 uddhava uvāca kṛṣṇa-dyumaṇi nimloce gīrṇeṣv ajagareṇa ha / kiṃ nu naḥ kuśalaṃ brūyāṃ gata-śrīṣu gṛheṣv aham // > Uddhava said: / Now that the Kṛṣṇa-sun has set and we have been swallowed by the python of time, / what auspicious news can I tell you of homes bereft of fortune? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 7. Uddhava said:—The bright sun of Sri Krishna having set, our houses of blighted splendour being swallowed up by the mighty serpent of Time, of what good tidings should I tell you? > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.8) durbhago bata loko 'yaṃ yadavo nitarām api / ye saṃvasanto na vidur hariṃ mīnā ivoḍupam // > Alas, unfortunate is this world, and the Yadus even more so, / who, living together with Hari, did not recognize Him, like fish \[not recognizing\] the moon! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 8. "Alas! Unfortunate is this world, especially so are the Yadus who lived with Him and yet did not know Him to be (Hari), even as fish do not know the Lord of stars (as such), (but know Him only as one among them). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.9) iṅgita-jñāḥ puru-prauḍhā ekārāmāś ca sātvatāḥ / sātvatām ṛṣabhaṃ sarve bhūtāvāsam amaṃsata // > The Sātvatas, expert in gestures, thoroughly mature, and finding delight in Him alone, / all considered the bull of the Sātvatas to be the abode of all beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 9. The Satvatas (though) all able to read others' minds possessed of the highest understanding and culture, and capable of oneness of devotion, regarded the Lord the abode of all beings to be the best among them (and their leader.) > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.10) devasya māyayā spṛṣṭā ye cānyad asad-āśritāḥ / bhrāmyate dhīr na tad-vākyair ātmany uptātmano harau // > Those touched by the Lord's creative power, who rely on something else that is unreal, / their intellect is bewildered; not so the minds of those devoted whose self is rooted in Hari. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 10. By the words of the Yadavas who were deluded by the Lord's Maya, and of those (Sisupala and others) that indulged a > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam > wicked feeling (that of hatred), towards Him,—the understanding (mind) of any one whose mind is sown in Hari (thoroughly devoted to Him) is never deluded. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.11) pradarśyātapta-tapasām avitṛpta-dṛśāṃ nṛṇām / ādāyāntar adhād yas tu sva-bimbaṃ loka-locanam // > Having shown to men who had performed no penance and whose eyes were never satiated, / He took back His form, the delight of the world's eyes, and disappeared. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 11. Indeed, He just showed to men who had not performed proper Tapas and whose eyes had no satisfaction, His splendid form, the eye of the world and withdrawing it, He has disappeared (from our view). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.12) yan martya-līlaupayikaṃ sva-yoga- māyā-balaṃ darśayatā gṛhītam / vismāpanaṃ svasya ca saubhagarddheḥ paraṃ padaṃ bhūṣaṇa-bhūṣaṇāṅgam // > That form, suitable for His mortal play, assumed by displaying the power of His yoga-māyā, / was astonishing even to Himself, the pinnacle of the wealth of charm, an ornament to its very ornaments. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 12. It was a form intended for the purpose of His Leelas or activities in imitation of men, which He assumed in displaying the strength of His Yoga-maya; it was (as it were) an object of wonder to Himself, and the perfect abode of Beauty in the fullest measure, whose members were ornaments to ornaments (\*i. e.\* gave a charm to the ornaments worn upon them). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.13) yad dharma-sūnor bata rājasūye nirīkṣya dṛk-svastyayanaṃ tri-lokaḥ / kārtsnyena cādyeha gataṃ vidhātur arvāk-sṛtau kauśalam ity amanyata // > Beholding it at the Rājasūya sacrifice of Dharma's son, the three worlds found it an auspicious feast for the eyes, / and thought that the Creator's skill in fashioning the mortal world had been entirely exhausted there. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 13. It was the glorious form which was the joy and pleasure of eyes, and of which all the three worlds observed and thought thus, "Now in respect of this (form) is completely spent all the skill of Brahma in creating the beautiful forms of this low world." > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.14) yasyānurāga-pluta-hāsa-rāsa- līlāvaloka-pratilabdha-mānāḥ / vraja-striyo dṛgbhir anupravṛtta- dhiyo 'vatasthuḥ kila kṛtya-śeṣāḥ // > Honored by His affectionate smiles and looks during the rāsa-līlā, / the women of Vraja stood motionless, their tasks unfinished, their minds having followed along with their eyes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 14. And the damsels of the Vraja having gained his esteem in return for their smiles overflowing with love, sportfulness and lovely looks, stood with their wishes unfulfilled, following him with their thoughts as well as their eyes. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.15) sva-śānta-rūpeṣv itaraiḥ sva-rūpair abhyardyamāneṣv anukampitātmā / parāvareśo mahad-aṃśa-yukto hy ajo 'pi jāto bhagavān yathāgniḥ // > When His own peaceful forms are oppressed by others of His forms, with a compassionate heart, / the Lord of the higher and the lower, endowed with His cosmic portion, is born though unborn, like fire \[from wood\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 15. The Lord of all, the great and small, full of compassion for his own gentle forms (amsas) harassed by others (by His cruel amsas) and accompanied by Avyakta (that of which Mahat- > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam > tattva is but a small and subtle product), the all-powerful Supreme Being, though unborn, has yet taken a birth like Agni;— > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.16) māṃ khedayaty etad ajasya janma- viḍambanaṃ yad vasudeva-gehe / vraje ca vāso 'ri-bhayād iva svayaṃ purād vyavātsīd yad-ananta-vīryaḥ // > This grieves me: the pretense of birth of the Unborn in Vasudeva's house, / and His residence in Vraja as if from fear of the enemy, although He possesses infinite valor, and that He fled the city. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 16. The behaviour (like an ordinary mortal) of the Lord who has no birth and who has boundless powers, His seeming to be born in Vasudeva's house (of Vasudeva's wife), His dwelling at the Vraja, as if afraid of the enemy, and His running away from His city—all this perplexes me (my mind) \[as irreconcilable with His true (supreme) nature. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.17) dunoti cetaḥ smarato mamaitad yad āha pādāv abhivandya pitroḥ / tātāmba kaṃsād uru-śaṅkitānāṃ prasīdataṃ no 'kṛta-niṣkṛtīnām // > It pains my heart to remember what He said, bowing at the feet of His parents: / 'O father, O mother, in great dread of Kaṃsa, be pleased with us, who have performed no service to you!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 17. This again confounds my mind—when I think of it—that He bowed at the feet of his parents and said (to them) as follows: My father and my mother, be pleased to pardon us who, in great dread of Kamsa, did not bring you relief, (did not render any service to you). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.18) ko vā amuṣyāṅghri-saroja-reṇuṃ vismartum īśīta pumān vijighran / yo visphurad-bhrū-viṭapena bhūmer bhāraṃ kṛtāntena tiraścakāra // > Who could ever forget the dust of His lotus feet after smelling it, / He who, with the twitch of His eyebrow resembling a branch, removed the earth's burden through death? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 18. Having once felt (known) the particles of dust on the lotus of His feet, who could forget the glory of the Lord who by His brilliant brow (with a motion of it) which is the god of destruction, swept off the burden of the earth. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.19) dṛṣṭā bhavadbhir nanu rājasūye caidyasya kṛṣṇaṃ dviṣato 'pi siddhiḥ / yāṃ yoginaḥ saṃspṛhayanti samyag yogena kas tad-virahaṃ saheta // > Indeed, you saw at the Rājasūya sacrifice the perfection achieved by the king of Cedi, though he hated Kṛṣṇa— / that perfection which yogins earnestly desire through yoga; who could endure separation from Him? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 19. During the Raja Suya you indeed witnessed what even Chaidya, who hated Krishna attained—an attainment after which Yogins endeavour by the careful practice of yogas—who could (then) bear separation from Him (such a Lord ?) > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.20) tathaiva cānye nara-loka-vīrā ya āhave kṛṣṇa-mukhāravindam / netraiḥ pibanto nayanābhirāmaṃ pārthāstra-pūtaḥ padam āpur asya // > And likewise other heroes of the human world, who in battle drank in / with their eyes the lotus face of Kṛṣṇa, delight of the eyes, and purified by Arjuna's weapons, attained His realm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 20. Similarly you have seen many other heroes who, on the battlefield, drank of the beautiful lotus-like face of Sri Krishna with their eyes and being purified by the Astras (missiles) of Partha, attained to His feet. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.21) svayaṃ tv asāmyātiśayas tryadhīśaḥ svārājya-lakṣmy-āpta-samasta-kāmaḥ / baliṃ haradbhiś cira-loka-pālaiḥ kirīṭa-koṭy-eḍita-pāda-pīṭhaḥ // > He is Himself without equal or superior, Lord of the three worlds, / all His desires fulfilled by the majesty of His sovereign rule, His footstool praised by the crowns of countless world-guardians offering tribute. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 21—22. That the self-same Lord who is, without an equal or superior, the ruler of the three Purushas (worlds or gunas), who is in the enjoyment of all blessings by virtue of His essential and perfect blissfulness, whose footstool is sung (worshipped) with the crests of their crown by the eternal protectors of the world who bear offerings (tributes) to Him—that He should > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam > behave like a servant and should Himself standing before Ugrasena seated on the high throne address him thus, "O Lord, may thou believe us to be thy Majesty's dependants (servants)"—this behaviour of the supreme Lord fills us, His servants, with confusion. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.22) tat tasya kaiṅkaryam alaṃ bhṛtān no viglāpayaty aṅga yad ugrasenam / tiṣṭhan niṣaṇṇaṃ parameṣṭhi-dhiṣṇye nyabodhayad deva nidhārayeti // > That service to him utterly exhausts us servants, my dear, when to Ugrasena / standing or seated upon the sovereign throne, \[the Lord\] would announce: 'Command, O Lord!'" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.23) aho bakī yaṃ stana-kāla-kūṭaṃ jighāṃsayāpāyayad apy asādhvī / lebhe gatiṃ dhātry-ucitāṃ tato 'nyaṃ kaṃ vā dayāluṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajema // > Ah, she, the wicked sister of Baka, who with desire to kill suckled him with breast\[-milk containing\] deadly poison, / attained the destination suitable for a foster-mother; what other compassionate \[refuge\] should we take shelter under than him? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 23. O unbounded mercifulness! Is there any merciful god to whom we could resort for protection other than the One whom the wicked Pootana suckled at her breast smeared with the worst poison and from whom she yet attained a goal worthy of His nurse (Yasoda)? > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.24) manye 'surān bhāgavatāṃs tryadhīśe saṃrambha-mārgābhiniviṣṭa-cittān / ye saṃyuge 'cakṣata tārkṣya-putram aṃse sunābhāyudham āpatantam // > I consider even the demons as Bhāgavatas whose minds were fixed on the master of the three \[worlds\] through the path of confrontation, / who in battle beheld the son of Tārkṣya with the weapon of good navel \[the Sudarśana disc\] on his shoulder descending upon them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 24. I think that even those Asuras are devout votaries of the Lord of the worlds, whose heart was (is) set on Him even through anger or hatred and who on the battlefield had the vision of Garuda coming towards them with the Lord who wields the Chakra and who is seated on his shoulders. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.25) vasudevasya devakyāṃ jāto bhojendra-bandhane / cikīrṣur bhagavān asyāḥ śam ajenābhiyācitaḥ // > Born to Vasudeva from Devakī while in the prison of the king of the Bhojas, / the Lord, implored by the unborn \[Brahmā\], desired to bring peace to this \[earth\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 25. Prayed to by Brahma and disposed to make the Earth happy, the Lord was born of Vasudeva and Devaki (who were) in the prison of Kamsa! the king of the Bhojas. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.26) tato nanda-vrajam itaḥ pitrā kaṃsād vibibhyatā / ekādaśa samās tatra gūḍhārciḥ sa-balo 'vasat // > Then brought to the settlement of Nanda by his father who was afraid of Kaṃsa, / he dwelt there with Baladeva for eleven years, his splendor concealed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 26. Being removed thence to the Vraja by His father Vasudeva who was afraid of Kamsa, He dwelt there along with Balarama for eleven years, with His glorious nature undisplayed. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.27) parīto vatsapair vatsāṃś cārayan vyaharad vibhuḥ / yamunopavane kūjad- dvija-saṅkulitāṅghripe // > Surrounded by calf-herders while grazing calves, the all-powerful Lord sported / in the woodland garden along the Yamunā, whose trees were filled with chirping birds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 27. Surrounded by lads who tended calves, Himself tending them, the omnipresent Lord played delightfully in the gardens on the Yamuna, where the trees with warbling (sweet singing) birds were dense. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.28) kaumārīṃ darśayaṃś ceṣṭāṃ prekṣaṇīyāṃ vrajaukasām / rudann iva hasan mugdha- bāla-siṃhāvalokanaḥ // > Displaying childhood activities delightful to see for the residents of Vraja, / weeping as it were, laughing, with the glance of an innocent lion cub, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 28. Showing the inhabitants of the Vraja the happy life of boyhood, seeming to cry and to laugh, He looked like an innocent whelp of a lion. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.29) sa eva go-dhanaṃ lakṣmyā niketaṃ sita-go-vṛṣam / cārayann anugān gopān raṇad-veṇur arīramat // > he indeed, grazing the wealth of cattle—the abode of Lakṣmī—with their white bulls, / delighted his following cowherds as his flute sounded. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 29. The self-same Lord, as He grew older, tended their wealth of cattle, the source of their splendour and prosperity, > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam > distinguished for milk-white bulls, and playing upon his flute entertained the Gopas (who always went with Him.) > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.30) prayuktān bhoja-rājena māyinaḥ kāma-rūpiṇaḥ / līlayā vyanudat tāṃs tān bālaḥ krīḍanakān iva // > Those deceitful ones sent by the king of the Bhojas, who could assume any form at will, / he dispelled with ease, as a child does with toys. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 30. As if in play, He knocked down the various wicked spirits, who were sent (against Him) by the king of the Bhojas (and who were) full of wiles and capable of assuming any form at will, just as a boy may kick away his toys (houses and other things made of sand, straw, etc.) > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.31) vipannān viṣa-pānena nigṛhya bhujagādhipam / utthāpyāpāyayad gāvas tat toyaṃ prakṛti-sthitam // > Subduing the lord of serpents, he revived \[the calves and cowherds\] who had died from drinking poison, / and made the cattle drink that water which had returned to its natural state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 31. He revived the gopas and the cattle that had fallen dead by drinking the poisoned water, and having punished (and expelled) the great serpent, He made them drink (again) the water restored to its natural purity. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.32) ayājayad go-savena gopa-rājaṃ dvijottamaiḥ / vittasya coru-bhārasya cikīrṣan sad-vyayaṃ vibhuḥ // > Through the best of the twice-born, the all-powerful Lord caused the king of cowherds to sacrifice with the offering of cows, / wishing to make proper use of the immense burden of his wealth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 32. The omnipotent Lord persuaded Nanda to perform a sacrifice in which cows were worshipped with the help of the best Brahmans, in order that the great wealth might be spent in good ways, (and thus He put down the pride of Indra). > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.33) varṣatīndre vrajaḥ kopād bhagnamāne 'tivihvalaḥ / gotra-līlātapatreṇa trāto bhadrānugṛhṇatā // > When Indra sent rain in anger, his pride crushed, the settlement was utterly distraught; / it was saved through his divine play with the mountain as an umbrella, as he bestowed auspicious grace. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 33. When Indra enraged at the interruption of his \*Puja\* poured down heavy rains (deluged the Vraja with heavy rains), the Vraja which was in great peril was protected (was born again) by the Lord who playfully held up the hill like an umbrella and thereby showed His grace. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ### [3.2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2.34) śarac-chaśi-karair mṛṣṭaṃ mānayan rajanī-mukham / gāyan kala-padaṃ reme strīṇāṃ maṇḍala-maṇḍanaḥ // > Honoring the twilight wiped clean by the rays of the autumn moon, / singing sweet melodies, he revelled as the ornament of the circle of women. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 34. Honouring (gracing) the evening brilliant with the rays of the autumnal moon, He spent the time in delightful ways singing sweet songs and becoming the ornament of the assemblies of women. > — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam ## Translations (2) - [The Srimad Bhagavatam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-subbarau.3.2.p2) — S. Subba Rau 1928, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.3.2.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Gopālacampū](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.3.77) — Jīva Gosvāmin 1588, Sanskrit - [Śrutirahasya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.suddhadvaita.later.srutirahasya.4.1.16) — Giridhara Prapanna 1790, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.3.2) · Pramāṇa