In the text: 10.80-81 (unnamed in the text; the names Sudama and Kuchela come from later tradition)
Sudama
सुदामा
Krishna's poor schoolfriend, unnamed in the Bhagavatam itself, who came to Dvaraka with a cloth of flattened rice.
Appears in
The poor brahmana friend — Skandha 10, adhyayas 80-81 — A starving schoolfriend visits the king of Dvaraka with a cloth of flattened rice, too ashamed to ask for anything.
Embodies
Devotion as the highest dharma — The Bhagavatam's own thesis (1.2.6): the highest dharma is devotion with no motive, which nothing can interrupt.
Questions to explore
Where does the name Sudama come from, if the Bhagavatam does not use it?
