Essay name: Mahabhagavata Purana (translation and study)
Author:
Prabir Kumar Nanda Goswami
Affiliation: Utkal University / Department of Sanskrit
The English translation of the Mahabhagavata Purana including an introduction and study. Another name for this text is the Devi Purana and it represents an ancient Sanskrit text comprising 81 chapters and belonging to the Shaktism tradition (worship of the Goddess).
Chapter 1 - Suta-Saunaka dialogue
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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going to the bank of Ganga and taking bath properly reads or
even listens it, his merit can never be compared with others.
Due to the presence in written in a family, the members never
meet with misfortune and enemies are pacified and enjoy the
fruit of taking bath at Gange for whole life. (20-24)
He is never afflicted with pain from planets, nor faces
separation from friends. He does not suffer from any diseases
or is never affraid of enemy. (25)
O the great sage there is no such tirths like Ganga on
That is why she is recognised as the most pious
the earth.
place. (26)
Here ends the seventy first chapter called Ganga's
attainment of Patala through the door of the hole of Sri
Mahabhagavata Upapurana.
