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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 11.23 · 4 voices deep
The Song of the Avantī Brāhmaṇa
The frames this chapter sits inside, outermost first. Choose one to read its note and the verse where its voice begins.
Inside Kṛṣṇa's teaching: the song of a miser turned mendicant on tolerating insult.
Where this voice begins
“The brāhmaṇa spoke as follows: O what great misfortune! I have simply tormented myself uselessly, struggling so hard for money that was not even intended for religiosity or material enjoyment.”
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.