CC Madhya 9.200 (1975)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Below is the 1996 edition text, ready to be substituted with the 1975 one using the compile form.
TEXT 200
- vipra-sabhāya śune tāṅhā kūrma-purāṇa
- tāra madhye āilā pativratā-upākhyāna
SYNONYMS
vipra-sabhāya—among the assembly of brāhmaṇas; śune—hears; tāṅhā—there; kūrma-purāṇa—the Kūrma Purāṇa; tāra madhye—within that book; āilā—there was; pati-vratā—of the chaste woman; upākhyāna—narration.
TRANSLATION
There, among the brāhmaṇas, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu listened to the Kūrma Purāṇa, wherein is mentioned the chaste woman’s narration.
PURPORT
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura remarks that only two khaṇḍas of the Kūrma Purāṇa are now available, namely the Pūrva-khaṇḍa and Uttara-khaṇḍa. Sometimes it is said that the Kūrma Purāṇa contains six thousand verses, but according to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the original Kūrma Purāṇa contains seventeen thousand verses. It is considered the fifteenth of the eighteen Mahā-purāṇas.