स संहितां भागवतीं कृत्वानुक्रम्य चात्मजम् । शुकमध्यापयामास निवृत्तिनिरतं मुनि: ॥ ८ ॥
sa samhitam bhagavatim krtvanukramya catma-jam sukam adhyapayam asa nivrtti-niratam munih
- sah
- that
- samhitam
- Vedic literature
- bhagavatim
- in relation with the Personality of Godhead
- krtva
- having done
- anukramya
- by correction and repetition
- ca
- and
- atma-jam
- his own son
- sukam
- Sukadeva Gosvami
- adhyapayam asa
- taught
- nivrtti
- path of self realization
- niratam
- engaged
- munih
- the sage.
The great sage Vyasadeva, after compiling the Srimad-Bhagavatam and revising it, taught it to his own son, Sri Sukadeva Gosvami, who was already engaged in self-realization.