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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.24.16

విదుర ఉవాచ ప్రచేతసాం గిరిత్రేణ యథాసీత్పథి సఙ్గమ: । యదుతాహ హర: ప్రీతస్తన్నో బ్రహ్మన్ వదార్థవత్ ॥ ౧౬ ॥
vidura uvāca
[vidura uvaacha]
pracetasāṁ giritreṇa
[prachetasaam giritrena]
yathāsīt pathi saṅgamaḥ
[yathaaseet pathi sangamah]
yad utāha haraḥ prītas
[yad utaaha harah preetas]
tan no brahman vadārthavat
[tan no brahman vadaarthavat]
viduraḥ uvāca — Vidura inquired pracetasām — of all the Pracetās giritreṇa — by Lord Śiva yathā — just as āsīt — it was pathi — on the road saṅgamaḥ — meeting yat — which uta āha — said haraḥ — Lord Śiva prītaḥ — being pleased tat — that naḥ — unto us brahman — O great brāhmaṇa vada — speak artha-vat — with clear meaning.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
vidura uvāca
viduraḥ uvāca
Vidura inquired
pracetasāṁ giritreṇa
pracetasām
of all the Pracetās
giritreṇa
by Lord Śiva
yathāsīt pathi saṅgamaḥ
yathā
just as
āsīt
it was
pathi
on the road
saṅgamaḥ
meeting
yad utāha haraḥ prītas
yat
which
uta āha
said
haraḥ
Lord Śiva
prītaḥ
being pleased
tan no brahman vadārthavat
tat
that
naḥ
unto us
brahman
O great brāhmaṇa
vada
speak
artha-vat
with clear meaning.
Vidura asked Maitreya: My dear brāhmaṇa, why did the Pracetās meet Lord Śiva on the way? Please tell me how the meeting happened, how Lord Śiva became very pleased with them and how he instructed them. Certainly such talks are important, and I wish that you please be merciful upon me and describe them.

Whenever there are some important talks between a devotee and the Lord or between exalted devotees, one should be very much curious to hear them. At the meeting of Naimiṣāraṇya, where Sūta Gosvāmī spoke Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to all the great sages, Sūta Gosvāmī was also asked about the talks between Mahārāja Parīkṣit and Śukadeva Gosvāmī, for the sages believed that the talks between Śukadeva Gosvāmī and Mahārāja Parīkṣit must have been as important as the talks between Lord Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna. As everyone is still eager to learn the subject of Bhagavad-gītā in order to become perfectly enlightened, Vidura was similarly eager to learn from the great sage Maitreya about the talks between Lord Śiva and the Pracetās.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Vidura said: Please clearly tell me what Śiva, being pleased, spoke when the Pracetās met him on the path. Please tell what secret knowledge Śiva, being pleased, spoke through his words.
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