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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 7]
historical facts.  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is thus recommended by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the spotless  Purāṇa . There is a class of less intelligent devotees of the  Bhāgavata Purāṇa  who desire to relish at once the activities of the Lord narrated in the Tenth Canto without first understanding the primary cantos. They are under the false impression that the other cantos are not concerned with  Kṛṣṇa  and thus more foolishly than intelligently take to the reading of the Tenth Canto. These readers are specifically told herein that the other cantos of the  Bhāgavatam  are as important as the Tenth Canto. No one should try to go into the matters of the Tenth Canto without having thoroughly understood the purport of the other nine cantos.  Kṛṣṇa  and His pure devotees like the  Pāṇḍavas  are on the same plane.  Kṛṣṇa  is not without His devotees of all the  rasas , and the pure devotees like the  Pāṇḍavas  or others are not without  Kṛṣṇa . The devotees and the Lord are interlinked, and they cannot be separated. Therefore talks about them are all  Kṛṣṇa-kathā , or topics of the Lord.
TEXTS 13-14
यदा मृधे कौरवसृञ्जयानां
वीरेष्वथो वीरगतिं गतेषु ।
वृकोदराविद्धगदाभिमर्श-
भग्नोरुदण्डे धृतराष्ट्रपुत्रे ॥१३॥
भर्तुः प्रियं द्रौणिरिति स पश्यन्
कृष्णासुतानां स्वपतां शिरांसि ।
उपाहरद्विप्रियमेव तस्य
जुगुप्सितं कर्म विगर्हयन्ति ॥१४॥
yadā mṛdhe kaurava-sṛñjayānām
vīreṣv atho vīra-gatim gateṣu
vṛkodarāviddha-gadābhimarśa-
bhagnorudaṇḍe dhṛtarāṣṭra-putre
bhartuḥ priyam drauṇir iti sma paśyan
kṛṣṇā-sutānām svapatām śirāmśi
upāharad vipriyam eva tasya
jugupsitam karma vigarhayanti