श्रीनारद उवाच एवं दैत्यसुतै: पृष्टो महाभागवतोऽसुर: । उवाच तान्स्मयमान: स्मरन् मदनुभाषितम् ॥ १ ॥
sri-narada uvaca evam daitya-sutaih prsto maha-bhagavato ’surah uvaca tan smayamanah smaran mad-anubhasitam
- sri-naradah uvaca
- the great saint Narada Muni said
- evam
- thus
- daitya-sutaih
- by the sons of the demons
- prstah
- being questioned
- maha-bhagavatah
- the exalted devotee of the Lord
- asurah
- born in a family of demons
- uvaca
- spoke
- tan
- unto them (the sons of the demons)
- smayamanah
- smiling
- smaran
- remembering
- mat-anubhasitam
- what was spoken by me.
Narada Muni said: Although Prahlada Maharaja was born in a family of asuras, he was the greatest of all devotees. Having thus been questioned by his class friends, the sons of the asuras, he remembered the words spoken to him by me and replied to his friends as follows.