SB 12.13.21
yogindraya namas tasmai
sukaya brahma-rupine
samsara-sarpa-dastam yo
visnu-ratam amumucat
Translation:
I offer my humble obeisances to Sri Sukadeva Gosvami, the best of mystic sages and a personal manifestation of the Absolute Truth. He saved Maharaja Pariksit, who was bitten by the snake of material existence.
Purport:
Suta Gosvami now offers obeisances to his own spiritual master, Sukadeva Gosvami. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura clarifies that just as Arjuna was placed into material confusion so that Bhagavad-gita might be spoken, so King Pariksit, a pure, liberated devotee of the Lord, was cursed to die so that Srimad-Bhagavatam might be spoken. Actually, King Pariksit is visnu-rata, eternally under the protection of the Lord. Sukadeva Gosvami liberated the king from his so-called illusion to exhibit the merciful nature of a pure devotee and the enlightening effect of his association.