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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
  3. 3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
  4. 4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
  5. 5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
  6. 6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.
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Canto 4 · Chapter 1: Genealogical Table of the Daughters of Manu
4.1.114.1.13

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.1.12

Visarga· Brahmā's creation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Maitreya Ṛṣisince 4.1.1inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitMaitreya Ṛṣi → Vidura

या: कर्दमसुता: प्रोक्ता नव ब्रह्मर्षिपत्नय: ।

तासां प्रसूतिप्रसवं प्रोच्यमानं निबोध मे ॥ १२ ॥

yāḥ kardama-sutāḥ proktā

nava brahmarṣi-patnayaḥ

tāsāṁ prasūti-prasavaṁ

procyamānaṁ nibodha me

Translation

You have already been informed about the nine daughters of Kardama Muni, who were handed over to nine different sages. I shall now describe the descendants of those nine daughters. Please hear from me.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Hear About the Nine Daughters

  1. 1

    Kardama Muni had nine daughters in Devahūti.

  2. 2

    All nine daughters were married to great sages, including Marīci, Atri and Vasiṣṭha.

  3. 3

    Their marriages have already been described; now the account turns to their descendants. The reader is invited to hear.

Key points from the purport
  • The Third Canto has already described how Kardama Muni begot nine daughters in Devahūti and how all the daughters were later handed over to great sages like Marīci, Atri and Vasiṣṭha.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Humiliation and anger → Reconciliation. Relational offense leads to grief and destruction before restoration.

Chapters 1–7 of Canto 4: Dakṣa, Satī and Śiva. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 1: Genealogical Table of the Daughters of Manu

Maitreya describes the descendants of Manu’s daughters and the blessings received by Atri Muni.

Back to this verse in chapter 4.1
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. yāḥthose who
  2. kardama-sutāḥthe daughters of Kardama
  3. proktāḥwere mentioned
  4. navanine
  5. brahma-ṛṣigreat sages of spiritual knowledge
  6. patnayaḥwives
  7. tāsāmtheir
  8. prasūti-prasavamgenerations of sons and grandsons
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Key ideas in this verse

The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.

  • Visarga · Subcreation

    How do living beings and their worlds appear? · Subject 2 of 10

Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How attentively do you receive the invitation to hear this account?

Practice

Read the translation slowly once, giving your full attention to the invitation to hear.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

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Connected stories

Keep going: stories told elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam that this verse or its purport brings in.

Found where this verse or Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport names them. See all of chapter 4.1's connections

Live this todayHear About the Nine DaughtersThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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