Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.41.34
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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paripūrṇena
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who is absolutely complete
Compound: pari (around) + pūrṇa (full). Bhagavān is pari-pūrṇa — full from every side. Echoes the maṅgalācaraṇa of the Bhāgavatam (oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ, Iśopaniṣad). The supremely complete asks the supremely insolvent.
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durmadaḥ
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falsely proud
Compound: dur (bad) + mada (intoxication). Bad-intoxication — pride drunk on borrowed status. The rajaka is intoxicated by serving Kaṁsa. Gauḍīyas read this as the warning against any pride borrowed from proximity to power.
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sa-ākṣepam
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insultingly
Compound: sa (with) + ākṣepa (rebuke, slight). The technical rhetorical term for sarcastic speech. The rajaka does not just refuse — he mocks. The Bhāgavatam grades offenses by tone, not just content.
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ruṣitaḥ
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angered
Past participle of √ruṣ — to be angry. The rajaka becomes angry at the very request that should have made him grateful. Bhāva's mirror-reversal: the same darśana that melted the ladies hardened him.
Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, who is complete in all ways, requested him. This means that Kṛṣṇa simply asked him to see the washer man’s reaction (not because he needed anything). Viṣṇu Purāṇa describes his wicked nature. Kaṁsasya rajakaḥ so ‘tha prāsādāruḍha-vismayaḥ: Kaṁsa’s washer man who was going to the palace became astonished. Another version has sudurmukhaḥ (speaking rudely) instead of sudurmadaḥ (proud). Hari-vaṁśa says prāptāviṣṭāya murkhāya sṛjate vāṅmayaṁ viṣam: he began speaking poison in order to attain the destination desired by the foolish.
Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, who is complete in all ways, requested him. He did not need any cloth. He was an ocean of sweetness capable of instantly manifesting unlimited excellent cloth. He asked because he was the Lord who had appeared to relieve the earth of its burden. This would produce a cause of killing Kaṁsa. Or the cause of his being completely was that he was full of all powers (bhagavān). The washerman spoke distinctly. He spoke insultingly because he was a servant of Kaṁsa and was very wicked (su-durmadaḥ). Kaṁsasya rajakaḥ so ‘tha prāsādāruḍha-vismayaḥ: Kaṁsa’s washer man who was going to the palace became astonished. Another version has sudurmukhaḥ (speaking rudely) instead of sudurmadaḥ (proud). Hari-vaṁśa says prāptāviṣṭāya murkhāya sṛjate vāṅmayaṁ viṣam: he began speaking poison in order to attain the destination desired by the foolish.
- Whose service has made you arrogant in ways that block real recognition?
- When the Lord disguises Himself as a request, do you tend to respond with annoyance?
A servant of a doomed king carries the king's pride in his own neck. The rajaka borrows Kaṁsa's arrogance and answers Kṛṣṇa with it — not knowing the borrowed pride borrows the borrower's life.
My note
Source: vedabase.io