Text 40] Appearance of Sukadeva Gosvami 1029

ask some quantity of milk for subsistence. A pound of milk fresh from the
milk bag of a cow is sufficient to feed an adult with all vitamin values, and
therefore saints and sages live only on milk. Even the poorest of the house-
holders keep at least ten cows, each delivering twelve to twenty quarts of
milk, and therefore no one hesitates to spare a few pounds of milk for
the mendicants. It is the duty of householders to maintain the saints and
sages, like the children. So a saint like Sukadeva Gosvami would hardly
stay at the house of a householder for more than five minutes in the
morning. In other words, such saints are very rarely seen in the houses of
householders, and Maharaja Pariksit therefore prayed to him to instruct
him as soon as possible. The householders also should be intelligent enough
to get some transcendental information from visiting sages. The house-
holder should not foolishly ask a saint to deliver what is available in the
market. That should be the reciprocal relation between the saints and the
householders.
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TARTANA: FE: FAST MIT fire |
TTA VAS AMAT TRAM: tivoll

suta uvaca
evam abhasitah prstah
sa rajna slaksnaya gira
pratyabhasata dharma-jiio
bhagavan badarayanih

siitah uvaca—Sri Sita Gosvami said; evam— thus; abhasitah—being spoken;
prstah—and asked for; sah—he; rajia—by the King; slaksnaya—by sweet;
gira—language; pratyabhasata—began to reply; dharma-jiah—one who
knows the principles of religion; bhagavan—the powerful personality;
badarayanih—son of Vyasadeva.

TRANSLATION

Sri Sita Gosvimi said: The King thus spoke and questioned the sage,
using sweet language. Then the great and powerful personality, the son of
Vyasadeva, who knew the principles of religion, began his reply.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the First Canto, Nineteenth
Chapter cf Srimad-Bhagavatam, “Appearance of Sri Sukadeva Gosvami.”

END OF THE FIRST CANTO
