तस्मा इदं भागवतं पुराणं दशलक्षणम् । प्रोक्तं भगवता प्राह प्रीत: पुत्राय भूतकृत् ॥ ४४ ॥
tasma idam bhagavatam puranam dasa-laksanam proktam bhagavata praha pritah putraya bhuta-krt
- tasmai
- thereupon
- idam
- this
- bhagavatam
- the glories of the Lord or the science of the Lord
- puranam
- Vedic supplement
- dasa-laksanam
- ten characteristics
- proktam
- described
- bhagavata
- by the Personality of Godhead
- praha
- said
- pritah
- in satisfaction
- putraya
- unto the son
- bhuta-krt
- the creator of the universe.
Thereupon the supplementary Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam, which was described by the Personality of Godhead and which contains ten characteristics, was told with satisfaction by the father [Brahma] to his son Narada.