Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c9.s2.2

c9.s2.2

The work is supposed, in the manner of the Purāṇas, to have been narrated by Jaimini to Janamejaya as a supplement to the *Mahābhārata* itself! Uttarā, mother of Parīkṣit and devoted to Kṛṣṇa, requests her son to impart to her the essence of the instruction regarding Kṛṣṇa, which was related to him by Śukadeva; Sanātana's poetico-theological venture purports to be a report of that course of instruction subsequently narrated by Jaimini to Janamejaya. The design is bold and ambitious, but it is possible for pious zeal to dare a great deal. As the work naively claims to embody the Amṛta churned from the ocean of the *Śrīmad-bhāgavata* by such great devotees as Śuka and Nārada, it professes, according to the commentary, to be the gist of all the Vedas! Al-