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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 4.7 · 3 voices deep
The Sacrifice Performed by Dakṣa
The frames this chapter sits inside, outermost first. Choose one to read its note and the verse where its voice begins.
Vidura's long hearing from the sage Maitreya. Almost all of Cantos 3 and 4 are spoken inside it.
Where this voice begins
“Śrī Maitreya said: O Vidura, all glory unto you. You have inquired from me of the greatest of all goodness, and thus you have shown your mercy both to the world and to me because your mind is always absorbed in thoughts of the Transcendence.”
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.
- 4.7.1Maitreya Ṛṣi
- 4.7.2Lord Śiva· 2 openings
- 4.7.6Maitreya Ṛṣi
- 4.7.13King Dakṣa
- 4.7.16Maitreya Ṛṣi· 2 openings
- 4.7.26Dakṣa
- 4.7.27The priests
- 4.7.28The members of the assembly
- 4.7.29Lord Śiva
- 4.7.30Śrī Bhṛgu
- 4.7.31Lord Brahmā
- 4.7.32King Indra
- 4.7.33The wives of the performers of the sacrifice
- 4.7.34The sages
- 4.7.35The Siddhas
- 4.7.36The wife of Dakṣa
- 4.7.37The governors of various planets
- 4.7.38The great mystics
- 4.7.40The personified Vedas
- 4.7.41The fire-god
- 4.7.42The demigods
- 4.7.43The Gandharvas
- 4.7.44The Vidyādharas
- 4.7.45The brāhmaṇas
- 4.7.48Maitreya Ṛṣi· 2 openings
- 4.7.50Lord Viṣṇu
- 4.7.51The Lord· 3 openings
- 4.7.55Maitreya Ṛṣi· 3 openings
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.