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Who is speaking?
Every chapter of the Bhāgavatam, coloured by how many narrators deep it goes. Choose one to see its frames and every verse where a new voice begins.
335 chapters
The depth map
SB 1.6 · 2 voices deep
Conversation Between Nārada and Vyāsadeva
The frames this chapter sits inside, outermost first. Choose one to read its note and the verse where its voice begins.
Nārada tells the despondent Vyāsa what is missing from his writings, then recounts his own previous life.
Where this voice begins
“Addressing Vyāsadeva, the son of Parāśara, Nārada inquired: Are you satisfied by identifying with the body or the mind as objects of self-realization?”
In the translation
Voices in this chapter
Each verse whose translation opens by naming its speaker, in order. Repeated openings by the same speaker are grouped.
The frames come from where the translation itself says who is speaking (“Śukadeva Gosvāmī said …”). Their exact start and end verses, the episode labels and the setting bands are study aids, not words of the scripture; Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on each verse is always the final word.