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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 3.16 · 4 voices deep
The Two Doorkeepers of Vaikuṇṭha, Jaya and Vijaya, Cursed by the Sages
The frames this chapter sits inside, outermost first. Choose one to read its note and the verse where its voice begins.
Brahmā explains the darkness troubling the universe by telling how the gatekeepers Jaya and Vijaya were cursed.
Where this voice begins
“Lord Brahmā said: My four sons Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumāra, who were born from my mind, are your predecessors. Sometimes they travel throughout the material and spiritual skies without any definite desire.”
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.