What happens in this skandha

The genealogies of the solar and lunar kings, told through the stories that made them famous: Ambarisha protected by the Sudarshana disc from Durvasa's anger; Bhagiratha bringing the Ganga down to free his ancestors; the life of Rama, told briefly; Parashurama; Yayati; and the lunar line down to the Yadus, into which Krishna will be born.

Episodes in this skandha

• Ambarisha and Durvasa — Skandha 9, adhyayas 4-5 — A king breaks his fast with a sip of water, a sage takes offence, and the Lord's own discus chases the sage across the worlds.
• Bhagiratha brings down the Ganga — Skandha 9, adhyayas 8-9 — Sixty thousand ancestors burned to ash, two generations of failed penance, and a third who brings a river down from heaven.
• Rama's life in two chapters — Skandha 9, adhyayas 10-11 — The whole Ramayana told in two chapters — and what the Bhagavatam chooses to stress when it has room for so little.

Continue through the Bhagavatam

• Ashtama Skandha — Skandha 8 — An elephant's last cry from a lake, the ocean churned for nectar, and a dwarf who asks for three steps of land.
• Dashama Skandha — Skandha 10 — The heart of the Bhagavatam: Krishna's birth, his childhood in Vraja, Mathura, Dvaraka — ninety chapters of one life.