सूत उवाच एवं निशम्य भृगुनन्दन साधुवादंवैयासकि: स भगवानथ विष्णुरातम् । प्रत्यर्च्य कृष्णचरितं कलिकल्मषघ्नंव्याहर्तुमारभत भागवतप्रधान: ॥ १४ ॥
sūta uvāca evaṁ niśamya bhṛgu-nandana sādhu-vādaṁ vaiyāsakiḥ sa bhagavān atha viṣṇu-rātam pratyarcya kṛṣṇa-caritaṁ kali-kalmaṣa-ghnaṁ vyāhartum ārabhata bhāgavata-pradhānaḥ
- sūtaḥ uvāca
- Sūta Gosvāmī said
- evam
- thus
- niśamya
- hearing
- bhṛgu-nandana
- O son of the Bhṛgu dynasty, Śaunaka
- sādhu-vādam
- pious questions
- vaiyāsakiḥ
- Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva
- saḥ
- he
- bhagavān
- the most powerful
- atha
- thus
- viṣṇu-rātam
- unto Parīkṣit Mahārāja, who was always protected by Viṣṇu
- pratyarcya
- offering him respectful obeisances
- kṛṣṇa-caritam
- topics of Lord Kṛṣṇa
- kali-kalmaṣa-ghnam
- which diminish the troubles of this Age of Kali
- vyāhartum
- to describe
- ārabhata
- began
- bhāgavata-pradhānaḥ
- Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the chief among the pure devotees
Sūta Gosvāmī said: O son of Bhṛgu, after Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the most respectable devotee, the son of Vyāsadeva, heard the pious questions of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, he thanked the King with great respect. Then he began to discourse on topics concerning Kṛṣṇa, which are the remedy for all sufferings in this Age of Kali.