श्रीशुक उवाच अथ तस्मात्परतस्त्रयोदशलक्षयोजनान्तरतो यत्तद्विष्णो: परमं पदमभिवदन्ति यत्र ह महाभागवतो ध्रुव औत्तानपादिरग्निनेन्द्रेण प्रजापतिना कश्यपेन धर्मेण च समकालयुग्भि: सबहुमानं दक्षिणत: क्रियमाण इदानीमपि कल्पजीविनामाजीव्य उपास्ते तस्येहानुभाव उपवर्णित: ॥ १ ॥
sri-suka uvaca atha tasmat paratas trayodasa-laksa-yojanantarato yat tad visnoh paramam padam abhivadanti yatra ha maha-bhagavato dhruva auttanapadir agninendrena prajapatina kasyapena dharmena ca samakala-yugbhih sabahu-manam daksinatah kriyamana idanim api kalpa-jivinam ajivya upaste tasyehanubhava upavarnitah.
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said
- atha
- thereupon
- tasmat
- the sphere of the seven stars
- paratah
- beyond that
- trayodasa-laksa-yojana-antaratah
- another 1,300,000 yojanas
- yat
- which
- tat
- that
- visnoh paramam padam
- the supreme abode of Lord Visnu, or the lotus feet of Lord Visnu
- abhivadanti
- the Rg Veda mantras praise
- yatra
- on which
- ha
- indeed
- maha-bhagavatah
- the great devotee
- dhruvah
- Maharaja Dhruva
- auttanapadih
- the son of Maharaja Uttanapada
- agnina
- by the fire-god
- indrena
- by the heavenly King, Indra
- prajapatina
- by the Prajapati
- kasyapena
- by Kasyapa
- dharmena
- by Dharmaraja
- ca
- also
- samakala-yugbhih
- who are engaged at the time
- sa-bahu-manam
- always respectfully
- daksinatah
- on the right side
- kriyamanah
- being circumambulated
- idanim
- now
- api
- even
- kalpa-jivinam
- of the living entities who exist at the end of the creation
- ajivyah
- the source of life
- upaste
- remains
- tasya
- his
- iha
- here
- anubhavah
- greatness in discharging devotional service
- upavarnitah
- already described (in the Fourth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam)
Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King, 1,300,000 yojanas (10,400,000 miles) above the planes of the seven sages is the place that learned scholars describe as the abode of Lord Visnu. There the son of Maharaja Uttanapada, the great devotee Maharaja Dhruva, still resides as the life source of all the living entities who live until the end of the creation. Agni, Indra, Prajapati, Kasyapa and Dharma all assemble there to offer him honor and respectful obeisances. They circumambulate him with their right sides toward him. I have already described the glorious activities of Maharaja Dhruva (in the Fourth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam).