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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.36.2

रम्भमाण: खरतरं पदा च विलिखन् महीम् । उद्यम्य पुच्छं वप्राणि विषाणाग्रेण चोद्धरन् । किञ्चित्किञ्चिच्छकृन् मुञ्चन्मूत्रयन्स्तब्धलोचन: ॥ २ ॥
rambhamāṇaḥ kharataraṁ
[rambhamaanah kharataram]
padā ca vilikhan mahīm
[padaa cha vilikhan maheem]
udyamya pucchaṁ vaprāṇi
[udyamya puchcham vapraani]
viṣāṇāgreṇa coddharan
[vishaanaagrena choddharan]
kiñcit kiñcic chakṛn muñcan
[kinchit kinchich chakrin munchan]
mūtrayan stabdha-locanaḥ
[mootrayan stabdha-lochanah]
Word-for-word
rambhamāṇaḥ — bellowing khara - taram — most harshly padā — with his hooves ca — and vilikhan — scraping mahīm — the ground udyamya — raising upward puccham — his tail vaprāṇi — the embankments viṣāṇa — of his horns agreṇa — with the tips ca — and uddharan — lifting and tearing up kiñcit kiñcit — a little śakṛt — stool muñcan — releasing mūtrayan — urinating stabdha — glaring locanaḥ — his eyes .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
rambhamāṇaḥ kharataraṁ
rambhamāṇaḥ
bellowing
khara - taram
most harshly
padā ca vilikhan mahīm
padā
with his hooves
ca
and
vilikhan
scraping
mahīm
the ground
udyamya pucchaṁ vaprāṇi
udyamya
raising upward
puccham
his tail
vaprāṇi
the embankments
viṣāṇāgreṇa coddharan
viṣāṇa
of his horns
agreṇa
with the tips
kiñcit kiñcic chakṛn muñcan
ca
and
uddharan
lifting and tearing up
kiñcit kiñcit
a little
śakṛt
stool
mūtrayan stabdha-locanaḥ
muñcan
releasing
mūtrayan
urinating
stabdha
glaring
locanaḥ
his eyes .
Important Words
  • rambhamāṇaḥ — bellowing
    Present participle of √rambh — to roar, low. The same throat that should chew cud and call calves becomes a weapon. Demonic action in Vraja is almost always the corruption of a pastoral sound.
  • khara - taram — most harshly
    Khara (rough, harsh) + comparative -taram. Vraja's auditory signature is Kṛṣṇa's flute and the cows' soft lowing; the demon's voice is named explicitly as their opposite.
  • vaprāṇi — the embankments
    The raised borders that hold pasture-water and mark grazing fields. Ariṣṭa attacks the infrastructure of cow-care itself — exactly what a vṛṣabha-rūpa demon should fail at.
  • stabdha — fixed, staring
    From √stambh — to make rigid. The demon's frozen glare contrasts with the moving, dancing eyes of the gopīs and the soft glance (kaṭākṣa) of Kṛṣṇa. Bhāva-śāstra reads such fixedness as a mark of tamas.
Ariṣṭāsura bellowed very harshly and pawed the ground. With his tail raised and his eyes glaring, he began to tear up the embankments with the tips of his horns, every now and then passing a little stool and urine.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Ariṣṭāsura bellowed very harshly and pawed the ground. With his tail raised and his eyes glaring, he began to tear up the embankments with the tips of his horns, every now and then passing a little stool and urine.
Commentary

Roaring very loudly and roughly, he clawed the earth with his hooves. He dug out the bank with his horns and passed stool.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

He made furrows in the earth with his hooves as he tore up the soil because of his crazed condition and desire to fight.

Related values & verses
Related values
Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender to God)Udyama (Industriousness / Effort)Daksya (Resourcefulness / Skill)Dhriti (Resilience / Steadfastness / Fortitude)Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Dhairya (Composure / Courage)Shraddha (Faith / Reverence)Santosha (Contentment)
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Concepts
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Personal Guidance
Ariṣṭa bellows, glares, paws the ground, tears embankments, and even excretes carelessly. Demonic energy is ugly in detail — it is not just powerful, it is gross, undignified, and openly contemptuous.
Reflection Questions
  • Where do you romanticize 'powerful' destructive forces that are actually ugly up close?
  • What in your behavior, in honest detail, is more demonic than you usually admit?
Analogy

A bellowing animal that fouls the ground it stands on is the picture of unchecked rajas-tamas: noise, agitation, refuse — and no fruit. Kṛṣṇa permits Ariṣṭa this whole display so the pasture can see by contrast what a real lord of cows looks like.

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