प्राह भागवतं नाम पुराणं ब्रह्मसम्मितम् । ब्रह्मणे भगवत्प्रोक्तं ब्रह्मकल्प उपागते ॥ २८ ॥
praha bhagavatam nama puranam brahma-sammitam brahmane bhagavat-proktam brahma-kalpa upagate
- praha
- he said
- bhagavatam
- the science of the Personality of Godhead
- nama
- of the name
- puranam
- the supplement of the Vedas
- brahma-sammitam
- just in pursuance of the Vedas
- brahmane
- unto Lord Brahma
- bhagavat-proktam
- was spoken by the Personality of Godhead
- brahma-kalpe
- the millennium in which Brahma was first generated
- upagate
- just in the beginning.
He began to reply to the inquiries of Maharaja Pariksit by saying that the science of the Personality of Godhead was spoken first by the Lord Himself to Brahma when he was first born. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the supplementary Vedic literature, and it is just in pursuance of the Vedas.