1.18 A King, a Curse, and a Seven-Day Deadline | Bhagavata Podcast with Manjari Devi Dasi

About this episode

The episode discusses a king's impulsive mistake leading to a curse from a young brahmin boy, pivotal to the Bhagavatam's narrative.

A great king, exhausted and thirsty, makes an impulsive mistake. A young brahmin boy responds with a curse: die within seven days. What unfolds from that moment is the reason the entire Bhagavatam exists. Canto 1, Chapter 18 is the hinge on which the Bhagavatam turns. In this episode, host Bhrigupada Dasa (Dr. Mans Broo, Senior Lecturer at Åbo Akademi University and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies) reads it with Manjari Devi Dasi, PhD, of Bhaktivedanta College i...

People in this episode

Host: Bhrigupada Dasa

Guest: Manjari Devi Dasi

Topics covered

• king
• curse
• Bhagavatam
• Hinduism
• spirituality
• impulsive mistake

Keywords

• Bhagavatam
• king
• curse
• brahmin
• spirituality
• Hinduism
• seven days

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Åbo Akademi University, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Bhaktivedanta College

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