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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 2, Ch. 8 ]
TEXT 29
यद् यत् परीक्षिद्यमः पाण्ड्नामनुपृच्छति । 
  आनुपूर्व्येण तत्सर्वमाख्यातुमुपचक्रमे ॥२९॥
yad yat parīkṣid rṣabhaḥ 
  pāṇḍūnām anupṛcchati 
  ānupūrvyeṇa tat sarvam 
  ākhyātum upacakrame
yat yat—whatsoever; parīkṣit—the King; rṣabhaḥ—the best; pāṇḍūnām—in the dynasty of Pāṇḍu; anupṛcchati—goes on inquiring; ānupūrvyeṇa—the beginning to the end; tat—all those; sarvam—fully; ākhyātum—to describe; upacakrame—he just prepared himself.
TRANSLATION
He also prepared himself to reply to all that King Parīkṣit inquired from him. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was the best in the dynasty of the Pāṇḍus, and thus he was able to ask the right questions from the right person.”
PURPORT
Mahārāja Parīkṣit asked many questions, some of them very curiously, to know things as they are, but it is not necessary for the master to answer them in the order of the disciple’s inquiries, one after the other. But Śukadeva Gosvāmī, experienced teacher that he was, answered all the questions in a systematic way as they were received from the chain of discipline succession. And he answered all of them without exception.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Eighth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Questions By King Parīkṣit.”