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historical facts. Srimad-Bhagavatam is thus recommended by Lord Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu as the spotless Purdna. There is a class of less
intelligent devotees of the Bhagavata Purana 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 Krsna 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 Bhagavatam
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. Krsna and His pure devotees like the
Pandavas are on the same plane. Krsna is not without His devotees of all
the rasas, and the pure devotees like the Pandavas or others are not
without Krsna. The devotees and the Lord are interlinked, and they cannot
be separated. Therefore talks about them are all Krsna-katha, or topics of
the Lord.

TEXTS 13-14

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yada mrdhe kaurava-srijayanam
viresv atho vira-gatim gatesu

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bhagnorudande dhrtarastra-putre

bhartuh priyam draunir iti sma pasyan
krsna-sutanam svapatam siramsi

upaharad vipriyam eva tasya
jugupsitam karma vigarhayanti
