996 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 19

sanctify the pilgrimages. Common men go to pilgrimage sites to get them-
selves purified of all sins. Thus the place of pilgrimage becomes overbur-
dened with the sins of others. But when such sages visit overburdened
places of pilgrimage, they sanctify the place by their presence. Therefore
the sages who came to meet Maharaja Pariksit were not very much
interested in getting themselves purified like other common men, but on
the plea of taking a bath in that place they came to meet Maharaja Partksit
because they could foresee that Srimad-Bhagavatam would be spoken by
Sukadeva Gosvami. All of them wanted to take advantage of the great
occasion.

TEXTS 9-10

afwafiniaaa
Te mad TH

SRY RTAS TTT Ut 8
wafaigas = saferut

want aa: freqen: |
aay Aa: ea: FeAhy-

SUA = ATTA Holl

atrir vasisthas cyavanah saradvan
aristanemir bhrgur angiras ca

parasaro gadhi-suto ‘tha rama
utathya indrapramadedhmavahau

medhatithir devala arstiseno
bharadvajo gautamah pippaladah

maitreya aurvah kavasah kumbhayonir
dvaipayano bhagavan naradas ca

atri to narada—all names of the different saintly personalities who arrived
there from different parts of the universe.

TRANSLATION

From different parts of the universe there arrived great sages like
Atri, Cyavana, Saradvan, Aristanemi, Bhrgu, Vasistha, Paragara, Viévamitra,
