सूत उवाच तत: परीक्षिद् द्विजवर्यशिक्षया महीं महाभागवत: शशास ह । यथा हि सूत्यामभिजातकोविदा: समादिशन् विप्र महद्गुणस्तथा ॥ १ ॥
suta uvaca tatah pariksid dvija-varya-siksaya mahim maha-bhagavatah sasasa ha yatha hi sutyam abhijata-kovidah samadisan vipra mahad-gunas tatha
- sutah uvaca
- Suta Gosvami said
- tatah
- thereafter
- pariksit
- Maharaja Pariksit
- dvija-varya
- the great twice-born brahmanas
- siksaya
- by their instructions
- mahim
- the earth
- maha-bhagavatah
- the great devotee
- sasasa
- ruled
- ha
- in the past
- yatha
- as they told it
- hi
- certainly
- sutyam
- at the time of his birth
- abhijata-kovidah
- expert astrologers at the time of birth
- samadisan
- gave their opinions
- vipra
- O brahmanas
- mahat-gunah
- great qualities
- tatha
- true to that
Suta Gosvami said: O learned brahmanas, Maharaja Pariksit then began to rule over the world as a great devotee of the Lord under the instructions of the best of the twice-born brahmanas. He ruled by those great qualities which were foretold by expert astrologers at the time of his birth.