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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 3]
And both the speaker and the receiver of the messages of  Bhāgavatam  were duly delivered by the same medium.
TEXT 43
कृष्णे स्वधामोपगते धर्मज्ञानादिभिः सह । कलौ नष्टदशामेष पुराणाकोऽधुनोदितः ॥४३॥
kṛṣṇe sva-dhāmopagate dharma-jñānādibhiḥ saha kalau naṣṭa-dṛśām eṣa purāṇārko'dhunoditaḥ
kṛṣṇe —in  Kṛṣṇa ’s;  sva-dhāma — own abode;  upagate —having returned;  dharma —religion;  jñāna —knowledge;  ādibhiḥ —combined together;  saha —along with;  kalau —in the Kali-yuga;  naṣṭa-dṛśām —of persons who have lost their sight;  eṣaḥ —all these;  purāṇa-arka — the  Purāṇa  which is brilliant like the sun;  adhunā —just now;  uditaḥ —has arisen.
TRANSLATION
This  Bhāgavata Purāṇa  is as brilliant as the sun, and it has arisen just after the departure of Lord  Kṛṣṇa  to His own abode, accompanied by religion, knowledge, etc. Persons who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of ignorance in the age of Kali shall get light from this  Purāṇa .
PURPORT
Lord Śrī  Kṛṣṇa  has His eternal  dhāma  or abode where He eternally enjoys Himself with His eternal associates and paraphernalia. And His eternal abode is a manifestation of His internal energy, whereas the material world is a manifestation of His external energy. When He descends on the material world, He displays Himself with all paraphernalia in His internal potency, which is called  ātma-māyā . In the  Bhagavad-gītā  the Lord says that He descends by His own potency ( ātma-māyā ). His form, name, fame, paraphernalia, abode, etc., are not, therefore, creations of matter. He descends to reclaim the fallen souls and to reestablish codes of religion which are directly enacted by Him. Except God no one can establish the principles of religion. Either He or a suitable person empowered by Him