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Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu .2.174

atha viyogaḥ –
[atha viyogah –]
mano mameṣṭām api geṇḍu-līlāṁ
[mano mameshtaam api gendu-leelaam]
na vaṣṭi yogyāṁ ca tathāstra-yogyām |
[na vashti yogyaam cha tathaastra-yogyaam |]
gurau puraṁ kauravam abhyupete
[gurau puram kauravam abhyupete]
kārām iva dvāravatīm avaiti ||174||
[kaaraam iva dvaaravateem avaiti ||174||]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
atha viyogaḥ –
mano mameṣṭām api geṇḍu-līlāṁ
na vaṣṭi yogyāṁ ca tathāstra-yogyām |
gurau puraṁ kauravam abhyupete
kārām iva dvāravatīm avaiti ||174||
Separation after meeting: Since our father went to Indraprastha, my mind has no desire to practice weaponry or to play ball, though I am very fond of it. Dvārakā now seems like a prison.

Pradyumna felt great separation from Kṛṣṇa when He was absent from Dvārakā at the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra. He said, “Since my father has left Dvārakā, I do not take much pleasure in practicing fighting, nor am I interested in any kind of sporting pastimes. And what need is there to speak of these things? I do not even wish to stay at Dvārakā in the absence of my father.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Durgama-saṅgamanī
Commentary

Astra-yogyām means “practicing use of weapons.” Trikhāṇda-śeṣa (supplement of Amara-kośa) says abhyāsaḥ khuralī yogyeti: yogya means practice or military exercise.

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