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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 7 · Chapter 15: Instructions for Civilized Human Beings
7.15.798.1.1

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 7.15.80

Visarga· Brahmā's creation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Śukadeva Gosvāmīsince 7.15.78inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

इति दाक्षायणीनां ते पृथग्वंशा: प्रकीर्तिता: ।

देवासुरमनुष्याद्या लोका यत्र चराचरा: ॥ ८० ॥

सत्त्वेन प्रतिलभ्याय नैष्कर्म्येण विपश्चिता ।

नम: कैवल्यनाथाय निर्वाणसुखसंविदे ॥ ११ ॥

iti dākṣāyaṇīnāṁ te

pṛthag vaṁśāḥ prakīrtitāḥ

devāsura-manuṣyādyā

lokā yatra carācarāḥ

Translation

On all the planets within this universe, the varieties of living entities, moving and nonmoving, including the demigods, demons and human beings, were all generated from the daughters of Mahārāja Dakṣa. I have now described them and their different dynasties.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Living Dynasties Described, the Canto Concludes

  1. 1

    The varieties of living entities on all planets within this universe were generated from the daughters of Mahārāja Dakṣa.

  2. 2

    These living entities include both moving and nonmoving beings, including demigods, demons and human beings. The verse concludes the description of their different dynasties.

  3. 3

    The closing note marks the completion of the Seventh Canto and expresses gratitude for mercy. It invites us to happily chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Key points from the purport
  • Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Seventh Canto, Fifteenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Instructions for Civilized Human Beings.”
  • — Completed on the night of Vaiśākhī Śukla Ekādaśī, the tenth of May, 1976, in the temple of the Pañcatattva, New Navadvīpa (Honolulu), by the mercy of śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda.
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN Canto 8: Withdrawal of the Cosmic Creations

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

Seriousness → Principled living. The example of bhakti becomes a guide to daily life.

Chapters 11–15 of Canto 7: Teachings on social and spiritual conduct. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 15: Instructions for Civilized Human Beings

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, after hearing from Nārada, became ecstatic in love of Kṛṣṇa, and then Nārada Muni left that place and returned to his own place. Thus Śukadeva Gosvāmī, having described various descendants of the daughters of Dakṣa, ends the Seventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 7.15
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. itithus
  2. dākṣāyaṇīnāmof the daughters of Mahārāja Dakṣa, like Aditi and Diti
  3. teto you
  4. pṛthakseparately
  5. vaṁśāḥthe dynasties
  6. prakīrtitāḥdescribed (by me)
  7. devathe demigods
  8. asurademons
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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

  • Kīrtana · Hearing and chanting

    Remembering the Lord through sacred sound. · Theme in SB 7.15

    In this verse: “chant”

  • Kṛpā · Divine mercy

    Grace received beyond material calculations. · Theme in SB 7.15

    In this verse: “mercy”

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 can I respond to the closing invitation to happily chant Hare Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Chant once with attention: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.

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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 7.15's connections

Live this todayLiving Dynasties Described, the Canto ConcludesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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