Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.36.33
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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taptān
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(those) afflicted, lamenting
Past participle of √tap — to be heated, pained. Kaṁsa anticipates the family's grief and treats it as cause for further killing. Asura-logic: their pain proves they love what I want destroyed; therefore destroy them too.
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vasudeva - purogamān
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headed by Vasudeva
Vasudeva + puroga (going in front, foremost). Vasudeva is named the leader of the relatives — the same Vasudeva Nārada has just exposed as Bhagavān's father. Kaṁsa's full extermination-target.
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vṛṣṇi - bhoja - daśārhakān
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the Vṛṣṇis, Bhojas, and Daśārhas
Three Yadu sub-clans. The Bhāgavatam names them because the Yadu-vaṁśa is the Lord's own appearance-lineage; Kaṁsa's plan is to annihilate it entirely, which makes it the chapter's most pointed adharma.
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nihaniṣyāmi
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I shall kill
Future of ni + √han. The first-person killing-verb in Kaṁsa's mouth is in the future tense — a future Bhagavān has already cancelled.
Even today there are wicked political leaders throughout the world who make such plans and even carry them out.
When these two boys are killed, Vasudeva, the Vrsnis and their friends of the Bhoja and Dasarha dynsasties will become weak.
“You will get trouble from his friends.” Kaṁsa responds in two verses. I will kill his friends such as Vasudeva. “Why do you not kill them before killing the two boys?” They will be in a state of lamentation after the two are killed. This shows Kaṁsa’s great anger. The other meaning is “Having approached the two for my liberation, I will also approach his friends since they are faithful to him.”
“You will get trouble from his friends.” Kaṁsa responds in two verses. I will kill his friends such as Vasudeva. “Why do you not kill them before killing the two boys?” They will be in a state of lamentation after the two are killed. It will be easy to kill them. “They are your relatives.” They are friends of the two boys. I will destroy them completely--along with their wealth (ni-haniṣyāmi).
- Where is a destructive habit in your life expanding beyond its original target?
- Whom are you in danger of harming through escalation you haven't yet named?
Kaṁsa's list is generational: kill the boys, then the parents, then every relative who mourns them. Hatred without an off-switch is its own form of theology — a perfect inverse of bhakti's all-inclusive love. The Bhāgavatam puts the speech in his mouth so we can hear the contour exactly.
My note
Source: vedabase.io