Just before creation, Narayana gives upadEsha to chaturmukha brahma. This is in 4 shlokas and is called chatusshloki bhAgavatam. (These 4 verses appear in the 2nd skaMda and 9th chapter of the bhagavatam.)
This was then passed on to nArada from brahma , who then told it to vedavyAsa dEvaru. vEdavyASa then elaborated the bhAgvata mahApurANa. vEdavyAsa passed on the purANa to His son shukAchArya. When shukAchArya recited the bhAgavatam on the banks of the Ganga to parIkshit rAja, sUta purANika was also present there. sUta then narrated the entire purANa to shounaka and other sages in naimiShAraNya. It contains 18000 verses
FOUR PRIME SLOKAS FROM SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM
reading or chanting of the four stanzas tantamounts to reading all the 18,000 stanzas in Srimad Bhagavatam.
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Sri Bhagavanuvacha
aham evasam evagre nanyad yat sad-asat param
pascad aham yad etac ca yo ‘vasisyeta so ‘smy aham
rte ‘rtham yat pratiyeta na pratiyeta catmani
tad vidyad atmano mayam yathabhaso yatha tamah
yatha mahanti bhutani bhutesuccavacesv anu
pravistany apravistani tatha tesu na tesv aham
etavad eva jijnasyam tattva jijnasunatmanah
anvaya-vyatirekabhyam yat syat sarvatra sarvada
Madhwa 
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