What happens in this skandha

Daksha insults Shiva, Sati gives up her body at his sacrifice, and Virabhadra destroys it before Shiva restores Daksha. A five-year-old prince, Dhruva, leaves home in hurt and finds the Lord. King Prithu levels and milks the earth so every creature can eat. Narada's allegory of Puranjana — a king who forgets he is a guest in his own city — closes the book with the Prachetas.

Episodes in this skandha

• Sati and Daksha's sacrifice — Skandha 4, adhyayas 2-7 — A father invites every god but his daughter's husband, and Sati goes anyway — the insult that ends in fire.
• Dhruva's tapas — Skandha 4, adhyayas 8-12 — A five-year-old turned away from his father's lap goes into the forest to find a seat no one can take from him.
• Prithu milks the earth — Skandha 4, adhyayas 15-23 — Born from a dead tyrant's arm, the first consecrated king chases the earth as a cow until she agrees to give her milk.
• The allegory of Puranjana — Skandha 4, adhyayas 25-29 — A king finds a city with nine gates, falls in love with its queen, and forgets the friend he left at the door.

Continue through the Bhagavatam

• Tritiya Skandha — Skandha 3 — Vidura's pilgrimage, the boar who lifts the earth, two gatekeepers cursed into demons, and a son who teaches his mother.
• Panchama Skandha — Skandha 5 — A royal sage undone by love for a fawn, reborn twice to finish the lesson — and then a map of the whole cosmos.