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Synopsis This volume presents, for the first time in English language, the translation, based on devotion to our Lord Shri Krishna (Bhakti), bringing out, from the original Sanskrit text, the "Bhavartha" (meaning of the innerspirit and underlying loving sentiments, with which, this treatise has been written), of the monumental commentary, Sri Subodhini, on the Maha Bhagavata Purana, by Mahaprabhu Sri Vallabhacharya (c 1479 - c 1531). Shri Vallabhacharya's Sri Subodhini is available only for the 1, 2, 3; 10 and for 4 chapters and 2 verses of chapter 5 of 11 canto. Sri Subodhini is considered, as the most detailed commentary, among all the available commentaries of Sri Bhagavatam. In this volume, 7 chapters of the canto III, (chapters 20 to 26) are dealt, with the original verse of Sri Bhagavatam, it's English meaning, the text of Sri Subodhini in Sanskrit and it's English meaning. Wherever necessary, the commentaries/explanations given by Shri Gosainji (Shri Vittalnatha), Shri Vallabhji, Shri Laloo Bhatji and Shri Purushotamji, have also have been added. The 7 chapters, respectively, deal with (1) Description of the many types of "creation", done by Lord Brahma (2) The Penance of sage Kardma and the "Boon" conferred by our Lord (3) The return of king Manu, to his capital, after offering his daughter Devahooti in marriage to sage Kardama (4) The conjugal happiness of sage Kardama and Devahooti (5) The "Incarnation" of Lord Kapiladeva and the return of sage Kardama to the forest (6) The Yoga of "Bhakthi" (Devotion to our Lord) as enunciated by our Lord Kapiladeva to mother Devahooti and (7) the instructions, on the principles of "Saankhya Sastra," by Lord Kapiladeva".