Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.36.30
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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nanda - vrajam
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to Nanda's cowherd village
Nanda + vraja. The same compound used in verse 22; the Bhāgavatam keeps naming the destination as belonging to Nanda — a quiet sovereignty-claim by vātsalya-rasa. Even Kaṁsa cannot speak of Vraja without naming Nanda.
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sutau
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the two sons
Dual of suta — the two boys. Always the dual: Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. The pair is so welded in narrative that Kaṁsa's order necessarily covers both.
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rathena
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by chariot
Ratha — chariot. Gauḍīya tradition reads the ratha here as the vehicle of bhakti itself — Akrūra's chariot will carry the Lord, but only because the driver's mind already does.
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mā ciram
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without delay
Mā (do not) + ciram (long time). 'Hurry.' Kaṁsa's anxiety in two syllables. He cannot bear the prophecy unresolved one more day; his own hurry delivers Bhagavān to his arena.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī gives the following interesting note: “When King Kaṁsa said ‘with this chariot,’ he pointed with his index finger to a brand-new, attractive chariot. Kaṁsa thought that since Akrūra was innocent by nature, when he saw this fine, new vehicle he would naturally want to drive it and quickly bring the two boys back. But the actual reason Akrūra went on a new chariot was that it would have been clearly inappropriate for the Supreme Personality of Godhead to mount a chariot that had already been enjoyed by the wicked Kaṁsa.”
Pointing with his finger at the new chariot, Kamsa said, "Seeing the new astonishing chariot the young boys will readily sit in it." Akrura took the new chariot, thinking that it would be unsuitable to bring the Lord in something used previously by Kamsa.
Having encouraged Akrūra, Kaṁsa states the mission. They are in Vraja and have not fled elsewhere. Bring them in this chariot (anena), newly constructed and profusely ornamented. Kaṁsa gave his own chariot to show special favor to him. Seeing the new, beautiful chariot, the two children will happy mount it by their own without delay. Actually it was by the will of the Lord that nice arrangements were made for his welcome to Mathurā.
- What 'shiny chariot' have you driven on someone else's errand?
- How does Kṛṣṇa's protection turn even an enemy's chariot into the path of mercy?
'Go fetch the two boys on this chariot.' Said as a simple errand. But the chariot to Vraja is, in Gauḍīya memory, the chariot of separation — the one on which Kṛṣṇa will leave Vṛndāvana, the wheels of which still mark Akrūra's tīrtha on the bank of the Yamunā.
In SB 10.39, Akrūra drives this very chariot to Nanda's village, takes Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma on board, and on the road bathes in the Yamunā — where he beholds the Lord both on the chariot and within the water, his lifelong meditation fulfilled.
The Six Gosvāmīs identified Akrūra-ghāṭa on the Yamunā near Vṛndāvana; pilgrims still visit. The chariot Kaṁsa is dispatching here is the same wood that carries the Bhāgavatam's quiet center.
My note
Source: vedabase.io