Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Texts 12.6.54-56
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पैल: स्वसंहितामूचे इन्द्रप्रमितये मुनि: ।
बाष्कलाय च सोऽप्याह शिष्येभ्य: संहितां स्वकाम् ॥ ५४ ॥
चतुर्धा व्यस्य बोध्याय याज्ञवल्क्याय भार्गव ।
पराशरायाग्निमित्र इन्द्रप्रमितिरात्मवान् ॥ ५५ ॥
अध्यापयत् संहितां स्वां माण्डूकेयमृषिं कविम् ।
तस्य शिष्यो देवमित्र: सौभर्यादिभ्य ऊचिवान् ॥ ५६ ॥
pailaḥ sva-saṁhitām ūce
indrapramitaye muniḥ
bāṣkalāya ca so ’py āha
śiṣyebhyaḥ saṁhitāṁ svakām
caturdhā vyasya bodhyāya
yājñavalkyāya bhārgava
parāśarāyāgnimitra
indrapramitir ātmavān
adhyāpayat saṁhitāṁ svāṁ
māṇḍūkeyam ṛṣiṁ kavim
tasya śiṣyo devamitraḥ
saubhary-ādibhya ūcivān
After dividing his saṁhitā into two parts, the wise Paila spoke it to Indrapramiti and Bāṣkala. Bāṣkala further divided his collection into four parts, O Bhārgava, and instructed them to his disciples Bodhya, Yājñavalkya, Parāśara and Agnimitra. Indrapramiti, the self-controlled sage, taught his saṁhitā to the learned mystic Māṇḍūkeya, whose disciple Devamitra later passed down the divisions of the Ṛg Veda to Saubhari and others.
Read the purport on Vedabase.ioFrom 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.