CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
Nārada Instructs the Pracetās
TEXT I
मैत्रेय उवाच
तत उत्पन्नविज्ञाना आश्वधोक्षजमाषितम् ।
सरन्त आत्मजे भार्या विसृज्य प्रात्रजन् गृहात् ॥ १ ॥
maitreya uvāca   tata utpanna-vijñānā   āśv adhokṣaja-bhāṣitam   smaranta ātmaje bhāryām   viṣṛjya prāvrajan grhāt
maitreyaḥ uvāca —Maitreya said;  tataḥ —thereafter;  utpanna —developed;  vijñānāḥ —possessing perfect knowledge;  āśu —very soon;  adhokṣaja —by the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  bhāṣitam —what was enunciated;  smarantaḥ —remembering;  ātma-je —unto their son;  bhāryām —their wife;  viṣṛjya —after giving;  prāvrajan —left;  grhāt —from home.
TRANSLATION
The great saint Maitreya continued: After that, the Pracetās lived at home for thousands of years and developed perfect knowledge in spiritual consciousness. At last they remembered the blessings of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and left home, putting their wife in charge of a perfect son.
PURPORT
After the Pracetās had finished their penances, they were blessed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord blessed them by telling them
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