Origin Of Srimad Bhagavatam

There was a King named Pareekshit who was the son of Abhimanyu and grandson of Arjuna. Once, while on a hunting expedition, he felt very hungry and thirsty. Soon, he came across the hermitage of a sage named Shamika and asked for some water. Shamika was observing the vow of silence and meditating and hence did not reply to this request. Unaware of the this, Pareekshit got angry! He immediately lifted a dead snake with his bow and placed it on the shoulder of the sage. This act was observed by a Brahman youth named Krisa. He immediately went to inform the son of the sage, Shringi. Shringi, after hearing the story from Krisa, got enraged. He cursed Pareekshit to be bitten by a snake named Takshaka within the next seven days and die! When Shamika had completed the vow of silence and heard the curse from his son, he was upset and said that he should not have cursed the king as the king had done this act because he was thirsty. Soon, the sage asked one of his disciple Guarmukha to inform the king of this curse. Pareekshit was worried when he heard this curse and asked his councilors for a solution. They advised him to stay in a palace on top of a pillar which would be protected by guards. The king was impressed with this plan and soon the palace was constructed and he began to stay in it. Meanwhile, a poor Brahmana named Kashyapa was in need of wealth and had found an antidote for the poison of a snake and was on his way to the king's palace. At that time, Takshaka in the form of a human stopped him and asked him the reason for his visit to the king's palace. When Kashyapa told him he was going to save the king and the reason behind it, Takshaka told he will offer him more money. Kashayapa agreed to this and left. Soon, Takshaka summoned all his snake friends and asked them to disguise as fruit vendors. Takshaka himself disguised as a worm and entered into one of the fruit. The guards unsuspecting the fruit vendors let them enter the palace. Pareekshit took one of the fruit from them to eat it. As soon as he picked up the fruit, Takshaka attacked him and killed him. Soon, Pareekshit's son Janamejaya succeeded him.

PS: During the seven days of his stay in the palace, the Srimad Bhagavatam was recited to him by Suta.

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