इत्येवं वदन्ति जनजल्पनिर्भयाः एकमताः कुमारव्यासशुकशाण्डिल्यगर्गविष्णुकौण्डिन्यशेषोद्धवारुणिबलिहनुमद्विभीषणादयो भक्त्याचार्याः ॥ 83 ॥
In plain words
Thus declare, fearless of worldly chatter and of one mind, the teachers of devotion: the Kumāras, Vyāsa, Śuka, Śāṇḍilya, Garga, Viṣṇu, Kauṇḍinya, Śeṣa, Uddhava, Āruṇi, Bali, Hanumān, Vibhīṣaṇa, and others.
इत्येवं वदन्ति जनजल्पनिर्भयाः एकमताः कुमारव्यासशुकशाण्डिल्यगर्गविष्णुकौण्डिन्यशेषोद्धवारुणिबलिहनुमद्विभीषणादयो भक्त्याचार्याः ॥ 83 ॥ityevaṃ vadanti janajalpanirbhayāḥ ekamatāḥ kumāravyāsaśukaśāṇḍilyagargaviṣṇukauṇḍinyaśeṣoddhavāruṇibalihanumadvibhīṣaṇādayo bhaktyācāryāḥ
Sūtra 83
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Nārada closes by locating the teaching within a lineage of realized voices rather than a solitary opinion. Their fearlessness before public chatter points to conviction grounded in experience.