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Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 12.1.28

Visarga· Brahmā's creation

Successive Groups Take Power

“Eight Yavanas will then take power, followed by fourteen Turuṣkas, ten Guruṇḍas and eleven kings of the Maula dynasty.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.1.28, translation

What the purport teaches

  • Eight Yavanas will take power.
  • They will be followed by fourteen Turuṣkas.
  • Ten Guruṇḍas and eleven kings of the Maula dynasty will follow.

Try this today

Write the four groups in order, with the number of rulers beside each.

Ask yourself

How does this sequence help me see that power passes from one group to another?

Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.

From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

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