CHAPTER SIXTEEN
How Parīkṣit Received the Age of Kali
TEXT 1
सूत उवाच
ततः परीक्षिद् द्विजवर्यशिक्षया
महीं महाभागवतः शशास ह ।
यथा हि क्षत्यामभिजातकोविदाः
समादिशन् विप्र महद्गुणस्तथा ॥ १ ॥
sūta uvāca
tataḥ parīkṣid dvija-varya-śikṣayā
mahīm mahā-bhāgavataḥ śaśāsa ha
yathā hi sūtyām abhijāta-kovidāḥ
samādiśan vipra mahad-guṇas tathā
sūtaḥ uvāca —Sūta Gosvāmī said;  tataḥ —thereafter;  parīkṣit —Mahārāja Parīkṣit;  dvija-varya —the great twice-born  brāhmaṇas ;  śikṣayā —by their instructions;  mahīm —the earth;  mahā-bhāgavataḥ —the great devotee;  śaśāsa —ruled;  ha —in the past;  yathā —as they told it;  hi —certainly;  sūtyām —at the time of his birth;  abhijāta-kovidāḥ —expert astrologers at the time of birth;  samādiśan —gave their opinions;  vipra —O  brāhmaṇas ;  mahat-guṇaḥ —great qualities;  tathā —true to that.
TRANSLATION
Sūta Gosvāmī said: O learned  brāhmaṇas , Mahārāja Parīkṣit then began to rule over the world as a great devotee of the Lord under the instructions of the best of the twice-born  brāhmaṇas . He ruled by those great qualities which were foretold by expert astrologers at the time of his birth.
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