Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.36.13
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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nigṛhya
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seizing
Ni + √grah — to grasp firmly down. The intensified form of grahaṇa: the demon will not slip out.
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niṣpīḍayām āsa
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He squeezed (him) out
From niṣ + √pīḍ — to press out, wring. The verb's domestic register (used of squeezing fruit, wringing cloth) is theologically pointed: cosmic destruction in the idiom of housework.
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ardram
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wet
The famous wet-cloth simile. The body of the great bull — clouds hovering at its hump — is reduced linguistically to laundry. Vraja's poetics deflates demonic scale on contact.
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viṣāṇena
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with (the demon's own) horn
Instrumental of viṣāṇa. The weapon the demon brought becomes the weapon by which he is finished — a recurring Bhāgavata pattern (Kaṁsa's wrestlers, Jarāsandha's army, Rāvaṇa's boons all turn against their owners).
Grasping his two horns in his hands, Krsna twisted him around like a piece of wet cloth. Uprooting his left horn, Krsna dealt him a blow with that horn.
Two verses describe with joy the killing the demon. Kṛtvā means he uprooted his horn. Viṣṇu Purāṇa describes this. Utpāṭya śṛṅgam ekaṁ ca tena vā tāḍayat tathā: he uprooted one horn and beat the demon with it. Hari-vaṁśa says śṛṅgaṁ cāsya punaḥ savyam utpāṭya yama-daṇḍavat tenaiva prāharat vaktraṁ sa mamāra vṛṣo hataḥ: he uprooted his left horn and beat his head with it as if it were Yamarāja’s staff and the beaten bull then died. Apatat means he died.
- Where could the very 'horn' of your worst tendency become, in Kṛṣṇa's hands, the means of its defeat?
- Are you willing to let Him fight the way He chooses, not the way you would script?
He throws the demon down and wrings him out like a wet cloth. The verb is from laundry, not warfare. Kṛṣṇa fights demons the way a washerman wrings a sheet — without strain, without anger, with the rhythm of ordinary work.
My note
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