🪷 ŚB 4.22.56

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ŚB 4.22.56requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 4.22parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 4parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā source-walk inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

Sanskrit

राजेत्यधान्नामधेयं सोमराज इवापर: । सूर्यवद्विसृजन् गृह्णन् प्रतपंश्च भुवो वसु ॥ ५६ ॥

Transliteration

rājety adhān nāmadheyaṁ soma-rāja ivāparaḥ sūryavad visṛjan gṛhṇan pratapaṁś ca bhuvo vasu
Synonyms
rājā — the King; iti — thus; adhāt — took up; nāmadheyam — of the name; soma-rājaḥ — the king of the moon planet; iva — like; aparaḥ — on the other hand; sūrya-vat — like the sun-god; visṛjan — distributing; gṛhṇan — exacting; pratapan — by strong ruling; ca — also; bhuvaḥ — of the world; vasu — revenue.

Translation

Mahārāja Pṛthu became as celebrated a king as Soma-rāja, the king of the moon. He was also powerful and exacting, just like the sun-god, who distributes heat and light and at the same time exacts all the planetary waters.

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