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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 11.13 · 4 voices deep
The Haṁsa-avatāra Answers the Questions of the Sons of Brahmā
The frames this chapter sits inside, outermost first. Choose one to read its note and the verse where its voice begins.
Kṛṣṇa tells how, in His swan form, He once answered the questions of Sanaka and his brothers.
Where this voice begins
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Once, the mental sons of Lord Brahmā, namely, the sages headed by Sanaka, inquired from their father about the difficult subject matter of the supreme goal of yoga.”
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.