श्रीभगवानुवाच त्वमेव पूर्वसर्गेऽभू: पृश्नि: स्वायम्भुवे सति । तदायं सुतपा नाम प्रजापतिरकल्मष: ॥ ३२ ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca tvam eva pūrva-sarge ’bhūḥ pṛśniḥ svāyambhuve sati tadāyaṁ sutapā nāma prajāpatir akalmaṣaḥ
- śrī-bhagavān uvāca
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead said to Devakī
- tvam
- you
- eva
- indeed
- pūrva-sarge
- in a previous millennium
- abhūḥ
- became
- pṛśniḥ
- by the name Pṛśni
- svāyambhuve
- the millennium of Svāyambhuva Manu
- sati
- O supremely chaste
- tadā
- at that time
- ayam
- Vasudeva
- sutapā
- Sutapā
- nāma
- by the name
- prajāpatiḥ
- a Prajāpati
- akalmaṣaḥ
- a spotlessly pious person
The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: My dear mother, best of the chaste, in your previous birth, in the Svāyambhuva millennium, you were known as Pṛśni, and Vasudeva, who was the most pious Prajāpati, was named Sutapā.