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Below are a few slokas taken from the ending of Srimad Bhagavatam

Maha-puranam. They glorify this purana; and the act of giving Srimad

Bhagavatam as very meritorious. With a desire to serve my Spiritual

Master, Swami Prabhupada, I collected all 18 volumns of his Bhagavatam

tranlation published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. I brought the 18

books in a box from India. In Thailand I had a teak wood throne built

to hold the books. On top is a sold 21k gold name plate with a flawless

Blue Sapphire (for vairagya) and a flawless Yellow Sapphire (for

Jnana), and the title in solid gold, " AUM Maha-Purana Srimad Bhagavatam -

(translation by) Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. " This weighs

about 4 ozs of gold, and is fixed on top of the throne with solid gold

screws.

 

Through the President of the Privy Council I arranged to present these

books collection to His Majesty King Rama IX. I wasn't able to make the

presentation on a date of MY convenience, but never the less it was

accept by the King in 1996 and is since then part of the Royal Library

in the King's Chitrlada Palace in Bangkok.

 

Two Pictures are attached of the set and a close up of the gold name

plate (before the presentation was made). I do believe that my Gurudev

is pleased with this, no doubt! I'm not sure if I posted this before.

 

Y/s, Richard

 

Here is what Bhagavatam states about gifting the great Purana...

 

SB 12.13.3: Now please hear a summation of the verse length of each of

the Puranas. Then hear of the prime subject and purpose of this

Bhagavata Purana, the proper method of giving it as a gift, the glories

of such gift-giving, and finally the glories of hearing and chanting

this literature.

 

SB 12.13.4-9: The Brahma Purana consists of ten thousand verses, the

Padma Purana of fifty-five thousand, Sri Vishnu Purana of twenty-three

thousand, the Siva Pur?n?a of twenty-four thousand and

Srimad-Bhagavatam of eighteen thousand. The Narada Purana has

twenty-five thousand verses, the Markandeya Purana nine thousand, the

Agni Purana fifteen thousand four hundred, the Bhavishya Purana

fourteen thousand five hundred, the Brahma-vaivarta Purana eighteen

thousand and the Linga Purana eleven thousand. The Varaha Purana

contains twenty-four thousand verses, the Skanda Purana eighty-one

thousand one hundred, the Vamana Purana ten thousand, the Kurma Purana

seventeen thousand, the Matsya Purana fourteen thousand, the Garuda

Purana nineteen thousand and the Brahmanda Purana twelve thousand. Thus

the total number of verses in all the Puranas is four hundred thousand.

Eighteen thousand of these, once again, belong to the beautiful

Bhagavatam.

 

SB 12.13.10: It was to Lord Brahma that Bhagavan first revealed the

Srimad-Bhagavatam in full. At the time, Brahma, frightened by material

existence, was sitting on the lotus flower that had grown from the

Lord's navel.

 

SB 12.13.11-12: From beginning to end, the Srimad-Bhagavatam is full of

narrations that encourage renunciation of material life, as well as

nectarean accounts of Lord Hari's transcendental pastimes, which give

ecstasy to the saintly devotees and demigods. This Bhagavatam is the

essence of all Vedanta philosophy because its subject matter is the

Absolute Truth, which, while nondifferent from the spirit soul, is the

ultimate reality, one without a second. The goal of this literature is

exclusive devotional service unto that Supreme Truth.

 

SB 12.13.13: If on the full moon day of the month of Bhadra one places

Srimad-Bhagavatam on a golden throne and gives it as a gift, he will

attain the supreme transcendental destination.

 

SB 12.13.14: All other Puranic scriptures shine forth in the assembly

of saintly devotees only as long as that great ocean of nectar,

Srimad-Bhagavatam, is not heard.

 

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