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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.

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SB 10.56 · 2 voices deep

The Syamantaka Jewel

The frames this chapter sits inside, outermost first. Choose one to read its note and the verse where its voice begins.

The Bhāgavatam proper: spoken on the bank of the Ganges during the king's last seven days.

Where this voice begins
“Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, your question is glorious because it is very beneficial to all kinds of people. The answer to this question is the prime subject matter for hearing, and it is approved by all transcendentalists.”
SB 2.1.1 Vedabase· Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation

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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.

10.56.1Śukadeva Gosvāmī
10.56.2King Parīkṣit
10.56.3Śukadeva Gosvāmī
10.56.6The residents of Dvārakā
10.56.9Śukadeva Gosvāmī
10.56.26Jāmbavān
10.56.29-30Śukadeva Gosvāmī
10.56.31Lord Kṛṣṇa
10.56.45The Supreme Personality of Godhead

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.

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