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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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The depth map
SB 10.83 · 2 voices deep
Draupadī Meets the Queens of Kṛṣṇa
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.”
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.
- 10.83.1Śukadeva Gosvāmī
- 10.83.3Lord Kṛṣṇa’s relatives
- 10.83.5Śukadeva Gosvāmī
- 10.83.6-7Śrī Draupadī
- 10.83.8Rukmiṇī
- 10.83.9Śrī Satyabhāmā
- 10.83.10Śrī Jāmbavatī
- 10.83.11Śrī Kālindī
- 10.83.12Śrī Mitravindā
- 10.83.13-14Śrī Satyā
- 10.83.15-16Śrī Bhadrā
- 10.83.17Śrī Lakṣmaṇā
- 10.83.40Rohiṇī-devi, speaking for the other queens
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.