2.7 One Verse Each. Except Krishna. | Bhagavata Podcast with Sundar Gopal Das

The Bhagavatam's longest avatar list gives each divine figure one verse. Sometimes two. When it reaches Krishna, it gives him ten. Canto 2, Chapter 7 surveys 23 lila avatars, the longest such list in the entire Purana. Sundar Gopal Das (Dr. Simon Haas), a Gaudiya Vaishnava scholar and author, reads it as a narrative table of contents: each avatar gets just enough detail to generate appetite for the full account in the cantos ahead. These stories are told, as the preceding verse puts it, so th...