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How to study this verse, in six steps

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

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Canto 6 · Chapter 18: Diti Vows to Kill King Indra

6.18.77 6.19.1

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 6.18.78

Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devotees

Who is speaking and story frame

Speaking:Śukadeva Gosvāmīsince 6.18.77inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

एवं ते सर्वमाख्यातं यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि ।

मङ्गलं मरुतां जन्म किं भूय: कथयामि ते ॥ ७८ ॥

evaṁ te sarvam ākhyātaṁ

yan māṁ tvaṁ paripṛcchasi

maṅgalaṁ marutāṁ janma

kiṁ bhūyaḥ kathayāmi te

Translation

My dear King Parīkṣit, I have replied as far as possible to the questions you have asked me, especially in regard to this pure, auspicious narration about the Maruts. Now you may inquire further, and I shall explain more.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Continue Learning Through Sincere Questions

1
The speaker tells King Parīkṣit that he has answered his questions as far as possible.
2
He especially describes the narration about the Maruts as pure and auspicious.
3
He invites the King to inquire further and offers to explain more. The opportunity to hear and learn remains open.

Key points from the purport

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to the Sixth Canto, Eighteenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Diti Vows to Kill King Indra.”

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

Resentment and resolve → Constraint and consequence. Family conflict frames a test of intention.

Chapters 18–19 of Canto 6: Diti's vow and discipline. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 18: Diti Vows to Kill King Indra

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Thus he entered her womb and cut her son into forty-nine parts. In this way the forty-nine kinds of air known as the Maruts appeared, but because Diti had performed the Vaiṣṇava ritualistic ceremonies, all the sons became Vaiṣṇavas.

Read the whole chapter summary Back to this verse in chapter 6.18

Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

evamthus
teto you
sarvamall
ākhyātamnarrated
yatwhich
māmme
tvamyou
paripṛcchasiasked

Key ideas in this verse

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

Īśānukathā · The science of God
Who is the Lord, and how do His devotees live? · Subject 7 of 10
Kīrtana · Hearing and chanting
Remembering the Lord through sacred sound. · Theme in SB 6.18
In this verse: “narration”
Rāja-dharma · Devotional leadership
Serving and protecting through responsibility. · Theme in SB 6.18
In this verse: “king”
Jñāna · Spiritual insight
Inquiry, revelation and discrimination between self and matter. · Theme in SB 6.18
In this verse: “inquire”

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

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What would I like to understand more clearly from this pure, auspicious narration?

Practice

Write down one question you still have about the narration of the Maruts.

The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayContinue Learning Through Sincere QuestionsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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