Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.4.19

sa kadācid atamāno bhagavān rishabho brahmāvarta-gato brahmarshi-pravara-sabhāyām prajānām niśāmayantīnām ātmajān avahitātmanah praśraya-pranaya-bhara-suyantritān apy upaśikshayann iti hovāca

SYNONYMS

sah — He; kadācit — once; atamānah — while on tour; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; rishabhah — Lord Rishabha; brahmāvarta-gatah — when He reached the place known as Brahmāvarta (identified by some as Burma and by others as a place near Kanpura, Uttar Pradesh); brahma-rishi-pravara-sabhāyām — in a meeting of first-class brāhmanas; prajānām — while the citizens; niśāmayantīnām — were hearing; ātmajān — His sons; avahita-ātmanah — attentive; praśraya — of good behavior; pranaya — of devotion; bhara — by an abundance; su-yantritān — well controlled; api — although; upaśikshayan — teaching; iti — thus; ha — certainly; uvāca — said.

TRANSLATION

Once while touring the world, Lord Rishabhadeva, the Supreme Lord, reached a place known as Brahmāvarta. There was a great conference of learned brāhmanas at that place, and all the King's sons attentively heard the instructions of the brāhmanas there. At that assembly, within the hearing of the citizens, Rishabhadeva instructed His sons, although they were already very well behaved, devoted and qualified. He instructed them so that in the future they could rule the world very perfectly. Thus he spoke as follows.

PURPORT

The instructions of Lord Rishabhadeva to His sons are very valuable if one wants to live peacefully within this world, which is full of miseries. In the next chapter, Lord Rishabhadeva gives His sons these valuable instructions.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Fourth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "The Characteristics of Rishabhadeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

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