Chapter Nineteen Performing the Pumsavana Ritualistic Ceremony 1. Maharaja Pariksit said: My dear lord, you have already spoken about the pumsavana vow. Now I want to hear about it in detail... Read more
36. My dear gentle wife, because you have worshiped me with great devotion, considering me a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I shall reward you by fulfilling your desir... Read more
Chapter Eighteen Diti Vows to Kill King Indra 1. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Prsni, who was the wife of Savita, the fifth of the twelve sons of Aditi, gave birth to three daughters—Savitri, V... Read more
Chapter Seventeen Mother Parvati Curses Citraketu 1. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said: After offering obeisances to the direction from which Ananta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, had disapp... Read more
31. As soon as Maharaja Citraketu saw the Supreme Lord, he was cleansed of all material contamination and situated in his original Krishna consciousness, being completely purified. He became... Read more
Chapter Sixteen King Citraketu Meets the Supreme Lord 1. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King Pariksit, by his mystic power the great sage Narada brought the dead son into the vision of a... Read more
Chapter Fifteen The Saints Narada and Angira Instruct King Citraketu 1. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: While King Citraketu, overcome by lamentation, lay like a dead body at the side of the dead... Read more
31. After receiving semen from Maharaja Citraketu, the King of Surasena, Queen Krtadyuti gradually developed in her pregnancy, O King Pariksit, just as the moon develops during the bright fo... Read more
Chapter Fourteen King Citraketu’s Lamentation 1. King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: O learned brahmana, demons are generally sinful, being obsessed with the modes of passion and i... Read more
Chapter Thirteen King Indra Afflicted by Sinful Reaction 1. Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King Pariksit, who are so charitably disposed, when Vrtrasura was killed, all the presiding deities a... Read more
