Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.10.27
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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bālena
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by the boy Kṛṣṇa
Instrumental of bāla — a small child. The verse names the agent as a toddler precisely to highlight the disjunction. Gauḍīya rasa: it is in vātsalya-līlā that aiśvarya is most piquantly veiled.
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dāma-udareṇa
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by the one with a rope on His belly
Compound: dāma (rope) + udara (belly). The name Dāmodara is born here — eternal in Vraja, but the chapter is its etymological source. Gauḍīya: Dāmodara is Kṛṣṇa as supremely controllable by His devotee's love.
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parama-vikramita
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by supreme power
Compound: parama (supreme) + vikrama (heroic stride). The same vikrama by which Vāmana strode the universe; here exerted by an infant against two trees. The scale changes; the agent does not.
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utkalita
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uprooted
Past participle from ut-√kal, 'to dig up.' Not snapped, not pushed over — uprooted. The metaphor reaches forward to the uprooting of long-standing material attachments that Vaiṣṇavas pray Dāmodara to perform inside their hearts.
This is the pastime of Kṛṣṇa known as dāmodara-līlā. Therefore another of Kṛṣṇa’s names is Dāmodara. As stated in the Hari-vaṁśa: sa ca tenaiva nāmnā tu kṛṣṇo vai dāma-bandhanāt goṣṭhe dāmodara iti gopībhiḥ parigīyate
The two trees were pulled out by the roots by Damodara who was pulling the mortar which followed him with great force. With trunk, branches and leaves shaking (ativepa) because of the great force of pulling (parama vikramita), the two trees fell over. According to the Hari Vamsa he is called Damodara because of being bound up: sa ca tenaiva namna tu krsno vai damobandhanat gosthe damodara iti gopibhih parigiyate.
The two trees, uprooted by Dāmodara, who pulled constantly (niṣ) the mortar which was turned sideways, fell down completely (niṣ), with force. The branches (viṭapau), leaves and trunks trembled violently. Or the phrase may be divided differently: Param avikramitātivepa-skandha-pravāla-vitapau: the branches, leaves and trunks did not tremble too much. His name Dāmodara indicates his sweetness. Uprooting the trees indicates his power. As previously, his sweetness hides his powers. Hari-vaṁśa explains his name. sa ca tenaiva nāmnā tu kṛṣṇo vai dāmbandhanāt goṣthe dāmodara iti gopībhiḥ parigīyate Because he was bound by rope Kṛṣṇa is called Dāmodara by the gopīs in Vraja.
- Name one 'tree' rooted in your life — a long-standing attachment or pride — and offer it explicitly to Dāmodara in your morning prayer today.
- When you feel small, bound, or dragged through your duties, remember the dāmodara-līlā: it is precisely in being 'tied' that Kṛṣṇa reveals His mercy — do your bound duty with that bhāva.
- Refuse to measure spiritual progress by your own strength; let one task today be done with the conscious admission, 'only His parama-vikrama uproots what I cannot.'
A child seems to drag a rope tied to His belly; in fact a kingdom of bondage is being uprooted with each step. The same boy who lets Himself be tied is the one whose parama-vikrama splits century-old trunks. Sweetness and supremacy are not in tension in Kṛṣṇa's līlā — they are the same step seen from two sides.
When Lakṣmaṇa lay unconscious from Indrajit's astra, Hanumān flew to Gandhamādana for the sañjīvanī herb. Unable to identify it, he uprooted the entire mountain and brought it to Laṅkā.
SB 10.10.27 stages the same parama-vikrama in toddler form: Kṛṣṇa uproots two mountain-old trees while tied to a mortar. The same Supreme Person who, as Rāma's servant, lifted Gandhamādana, here in His own svayaṁ-rūpa lifts entire trees as if they were grass. The Gauḍīya reading is exact: Hanumān serves the Lord, the Lord enacts the Hanumān-level strength inside His own līlā.
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