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SRIMAD MAHABHAGAVATHAM : 2.7 - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,  March  20, 2021. 07 : 27. AM.  CHAPTER-2. The Process of Creation - 7. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana is written in a very intricate style of Sanskrit. It is not like the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Mahabharata or the seventeen Puranas, which are written in simple Sanskrit. Anyone who knows some Sanskrit will understand what these are about, but even a Sanskrit scholar cannot understand the language of the Srimad Bhagavata. It is highly intricate, very involved, and is scholarship raised to the height of perfection. It is said, therefore, that the Bhagavata is the test of the scholarship of a person. If we want to test the depth of a person’s scholarship, we have to test his knowledge of the Bhagavata. The verses are so intricate, so deep and pregnant with meaning, one thing meaning many other things—particular