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27. Who are the parents of Veda Vyasa ?Rishi Parasaara and Sathyavathi ( fisherwomen )
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56. What is the essence or main points of 2nd Chapter ( 2nd Skandham) in Sri
Bhagavatham ? Sri Sukhar encourages Parikshith to meditate upon God ( Bhagawan)
single-mindedly for the remainder of his life to attain Mukthi . Also stresses that the
day which passes without thinking about Bhagawan is waste . Also he describes about
creation of the universe. The moral is the human body is gifted by God to sing his
praise, go to his temples and serve, to have Dharshan of him by all means to do
BHAKTHI only.
57. On whose shoulders did Parikshith lay the dead snake ? Rishi by name ‘Sameekar’
58. Who cursed Parikshith ? Sameekar’s son ‘Sringi’
59. Who is called Baghawan Badharayana ? Suka Brahma Maharishi
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60. What are the main contents of III rd Skandam ? Vidhurar meeting Uddhavar on the
banks of Yamuna . Both of them discussed about the sorrowful events of death of
Pandavas and also Sri Krishna and his Yadhava Kulam . They met Maitrya Rishi in
the river banks of Saraswathi . Rishi Maitreyar did teachings to Vidhura then. Add
questions as below .
61. Who gave birth to Hiranyakshan and Hiranyakashipu ? Thithi ( Daughter of
Dakshan) and Kasyapa
62. When did Bhagawan Sri HARI killed Hiranyakshan ? In Varaha Avtar
63. Who is the wife of Karthamar ? Devahuthi
64. Who is Devahuthi ? Daughter of Swayambhuva Manu and Satharubai
65. Who is the very famous son and also Vishnu Avtar born to Karthamar and
Devahuthi ? Kapila Vasudevar
66. What did Kapila taught his mother ? Bakthi and Sankiya Yogam
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67. What are the highlights of Chapter IV ? Dhruva ‘ s story , Prithu Chakravarthy’s story
, Story of Prachethasas .
68. Who are the famous sons of Swayambhuva Manu and Satharubhai ? Priya Vradhan
and Utthanapathan . They had totally five children – Aahoothi , Deva hoothi,
Prasoothi as daughters .
69. Who are the parents of Dhruva ? Utthanapathan & Suneethi
70. Who are the two wives of Utthanapathan ? Suneethi and Suruchi
71. Who is the son of Suruchi ? Utthaman
72. Why was Dhruva unhappy ? Suruchi did not permit him to sit on his father’s lap
73. Who asked him to go to forest and meditate upon Sri Narayanan ? Suneethi – his
mother
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94. What are the highlights of V th Chapter or 5th Skandham ? Story of Priyavradhan ,
Aagneerathan , Nabi , Rishabhadevar , Jata Bharathar and Gayan . All of them are great
men who had excellent control over their senses and were great Yogis . It is followed
by the description of this globe , formation of Ganges , History of this holy land of
BHARATH , 7 islands or continents which form this earth , solar system and stars
,saptharishi mandalam , dhruva’s place , eclipses , various lokas – 7 lokas below earth ,
hell and punishments .
95. Who was the father of Priya vradhan ? Vaivaswatha Manu
96. Who impressed Priyavradhan to enter in family life ? Manu and also Brahma
97. Who was Priyavradhan’S Guru ? Naradha
98. Who all visited Priya vradhan when he did tapas in Gandhamadhana Parvat ? Brahma
, Naradha
99. Who was the wife of Priyavradhan ? Bharhishmathi and they had 10 sons and 1
daughter
100. Who was the daughter of Priyavradhan ? Oorjaswathi , married to Surkracharyar
and their famous daughter was Devayani who married King Yayadhi .
101. Who was the famous son of Priyavradhan who ruled Jampoothdwebham ?
Aagneerathan
102. Who was the famous son of Aagneeratahn – Nabi
103. Who was the wife of Nabi ? Meru Devi , daughter of Mt. Meru. She gave birth to
the famous Rishab devan
104. Who was the wife of Rishbadevan ? Jayanthi , daughter of Indra . They had 100
sons and the eldest was BHARATHAN , who was the most famous king and by whose
name this land was called as Bharath . He was later called as Jata Bharathar .
105. How are the last 9 sons of Rishaba deva were called – Nava yogis
106. What distracted the taps of Bharatha ? A new born deer
107. What was the next birth of Bharatha Yogi & why ? He was born as a deer since he
was thinking of the little deer which he grew up while he died .
108. What was his next birth ? He was born in a Brahmin family in Angiras Gothram .
He was called as Jata Bharathar as he did not have any feelings , treated happiness and
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109. Which King made Jata Bharathar to lift his ‘ pallaku ’ ? Rahooganan
of an asura Hiranyakhashipu . The moral is that though Vridhrasura was killed but
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Who prayed to Vamana not to kill Mahabali ? His grand father Prahladhan .
Bhagwan did not kill anyone after Hiranyakhsipu since HE gave his word to
Prahladh during Narasimha avtar that for 21 generations ahead , nobody would be
killed / punished after Prahladh. So God kept his word by not punishing Mahabali .
147. What was Bhawan’s blessings to Mahabali ? He was sent to underground world
called SUTHALAM and he would God ‘s dharsan always with God’s protection .
148. To whom did Vamana give the 3 worlds regained from Mahabali ? To Indra . As
came as the brother of Indra (born to Kashyapa and Adithi ) and regained the lost
worlds , he was called Upendra .
149. What was the moral of Mahabali Story ? Mahabali was the most benevolent king .He
knew Lord Himself came to seek alms from him . He was proud in giving. However, he had a
feeling that he was giving everything to others. So Lord stripped all his possessions in the
form of material, land and wealth .Finally he had his own atma / soul ( heartful of bhakthi )
or feeling of self – to offer to Lord . So Lord took away the ‘feeling of self’ and liberated
Mahabali . For those who need liberation or God’s blessings , should give away the
attachment of all wealth , material , family and also feeling of self .
150. When does the Matsya avtar happen ? It happens at the end of every kalpam ( 1000
x 4 yuga cycle ) during ‘pralayam’ ( deluge) .
151. Why did Matsya avatar take palce ? During deluge , Vedas were looted from Brahma
by a asura called HAYAGREEVA. Bhagawan as a large matsya , killed this asura and
regained the Vedas to give back to Brahma .
152. To whom did Bhagawan teach Vedas during Matsya avtar ? To King Sathyavratha .
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When he had a holy dip , he could have the dharshan of Sri Krishna as ‘Maha Vishnu “
sleeping in Yoganidhra on Aadhisheshan surreounded by Ashtalakshmis . He again
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comes out of water and see to find Krishna smiling and sitting there only . So , he was
220. How many time Jarasandhan fought with Sri Krishna ? 18 times and in all first 17
times he was defeated .18th time Krishna ran away from him since he was destined to
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gives it back to Sathrajith. Jambhavan offers his daughter Jambhavathi along with the
Syamanthaka mani to Krishna .
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246. Who gave the idea to Krishna to combine the travel to Rajasooya Yaga and the
necessary ‘round the country ‘ dig vijayam with intention to kill Jarasandha ? Uddahva
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