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SRIMAD BHAGAVATHAM IN SHORT FORM
The Bhagavata Puraṇa is one of the “Maha” Puranic texts of Hindu literature, with its primary focus on bhakti (devotion) to the incarnations of Vishnu, particularly Krishna. The Sanskrit text comprises twelve skandas (cantos or books) and some 18,000 verses. The Bhagavata includes many stories well known in Hindu tradition, including the various avatars of Vishnu and the life of Krishna. It was the first Purana to be translated into a European language, with three French translations between 1840 and 1857.
Bhagavata Purana is also known as Srimad Bhagavatam, is a great epic which was first written in Sanskrit, and now it is available in all other regional languages including in English, Hindi and Tamil, and it initiates the Sri Krishna Bhakti, and it is praised by several scholars, saints and sages for its simplicity, easy readability, significance and for its popularity.
The Bhagavata Purana, covers lot of areas including devotional stories, importance of Lord Vishnu, details about famous rishis and rishi pathnis, and also about the famous Bhagavatas like Dhuruva and Prahalada. This Purana tells about the greatness of Lord Krishna, an avatar of Lord Vishnu, and according to this epic, Krishna is considered as the supreme controller of the whole universe. It is believed that by reading this Purana, devotees would be relieved from their various problems like diseases, unnecessary fear in their mind, enemy related problems and from their bad habits like lust, anger and greed etc.
The Bhagavata Purana is a big Purana, and this was narrated by the great Shuka Brahma Rishi, son of Vyasa Bhagavan, to King Parikshit, approximately before 5,000 years ago. After hearing this Purana from the mouth of the holy sage Shuka, King Parikshit had attained salvation after his death, and merged with Lord Vishnu.
This Purana tells about the childhood plays of Lord Krishna during the Dwapara Yuga, about the killing of demons, and also about his interaction with his Yadava cowherd friends and with the Gopikas. He embraced his friends and Gopikas, and gave them a great sense of spiritual satisfaction, which they could not get anywhere else. Through his divine touch, his friends and the Gopikas had attained great spiritual enlightenment, and in course of time, they had reached the lotus feet of Lord Krishna.