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The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana (Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa) or simply Bhagavata (Bhāgavata), is one of Hinduism's eighteen major Puranas (Mahapuranas) and one of the most popular in Vaishnavism.
The Srimad Bhagavata is one of the main books of Hindu philosophy. The Bhagavata is a devotional account of the Supreme Being and His incarnations. Book 1 of the Srimad Bhagavata discusses the origin of the Bhagavata, and introduces the reader to the glories of Krishna as the Supreme Lord. This book consists of 19 chapters.
Brihad-bhagavatamrita is a sacred text for followers of the Hindu tradition of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.Along with Hari-bhakti-vilasa, it is one of the most important works of Vaishnava theologian Sanatana Goswami.
Srimad” means “beautiful” or “glorious”. [230] Prabhupada began his translation and commentary on the Bhagavatam after accepting sannyasa in 1959, and by 1965 he had completed and published the first canto. [231] He worked on translating the Srimad-Bhagavatam into English for the rest of his life. [215]
The Srimad Bhagavatam recognizes Vritra as a bhakta (devotee) of Vishnu [9] who was slain only due to his failure to live piously and without aggression. [10] This story runs thus: SB 6.9.11: After Visvarupa was killed, his father, Tvashta, performed ritualistic ceremonies to kill Indra.
In Srimad Bhagavatam, this is explained as: Karanodakashayi Vishnu is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and He is the master of eternal time, space, cause and effects, mind, the elements, the material ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form of the Lord, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and the sum total of all living beings, both moving and non-moving.
[5] The crocodile, in its previous birth, had been a Gandharva king called Huhu. The sage Devala came to visit the king, and when the two of them were bathing and Devala was offering prayers to Surya (the Sun god), the king pulled the sage's leg for fun. The sage was furious and cursed the king to become a crocodile in his next life.
The Kumaras are four sages from the Puranic texts of Hinduism who roam the universe as children, [1] [2] generally named Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana, and Sanatkumara. [3] They are described as the first mind-born creations and sons of the creator-god Brahma.