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Nārada Instructs the Pracetās
1591
TEXT 26
श्रीशुक उवाच
य एष उत्तानपदो मानवस्यानुवर्णितः ।
वंशः प्रियत्रतस्यापि निबोध नृपसत्तम ॥२६॥
śrī śuka uvāca 
  ya eṣa uttānapado 
  mānavasyānuvarṇitaḥ 
  vaṁśaḥ priya-vratasyāpi 
  nibodha nṛpa-sattama
śrī śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī; said; yaḥ—which; eṣaḥ—this dynasty; uttānapadaḥ—of King Uttānapāda; mānavasya—the son of Svāyambhuva Manu; anuvarṇitaḥ—described following the footprints of previous ācāryas; vaṁśaḥ—dynasty; priya-vratasya—of King Priyavrata; api—also; nibodha—try to understand; nṛpa-sattama—O best of kings.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of kings [King Parīkṣit], I have now finished telling about the descendants of the first son of Svāyambhuva Manu, Uttānapāda. I shall now try to relate the activities of the descendants of Priyavrata, the second son of Svāyambhuva Manu. Please hear them attentively.
PURPORT
Dhruva Mahārāja was the son of King Uttānapāda, and as far as the descendants of Dhruva Mahārāja or King Uttānapāda are concerned, their activities are described up to the point of the Pracetās. Now Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī desires to describe the descendants of Mahārāja Priyavrata, the second son of Svāyambhuva Manu.
TEXT 27
यो नारदादात्मविद्यामधिगम्य पुनर्महीम् ।
शुक्त्वा विभज्य पुत्रेभ्य ऐश्वरं समगात्पदम् ॥२७॥
yo nāradād ātma-vidyām 
  adhigamya punar mahīm