SB 10.44.20 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.44.20

भगवद्गात्रनिष्पातैर्वज्रनीष्पेषनिष्ठुरै: । चाणूरो भज्यमानाङ्गो मुहुर्ग्लानिमवाप ह ॥ २० ॥

bhagavad-gātra-niṣpātair

[bhagavad-gaatra-nishpaatair]

vajra-nīṣpeṣa-niṣṭhuraiḥ

[vajra-neeshpesha-nishthuraih]

cāṇūro bhajyamānāṅgo

[chaanooro bhajyamaanaango]

muhur glānim avāpa ha

[muhur glaanim avaapa ha]

Word-for-word

bhagavat — of the Supreme Lord gātra — by the limbs niṣpātaiḥ — due to the blows vajra — of lightning niṣpeṣa — like a crushing stroke niṣṭhuraiḥ — hard cāṇūraḥ — Cāṇūra bhajyamāna — being broken aṅgaḥ — his entire body muhuḥ — more and more glānim — pain and fatigue avāpa ha — felt .

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

bhagavad-gātra-niṣpātair

bhagavat

of the Supreme Lord

gātra

by the limbs

niṣpātaiḥ

due to the blows

vajra-nīṣpeṣa-niṣṭhuraiḥ

vajra

of lightning

niṣpeṣa

like a crushing stroke

niṣṭhuraiḥ

hard

cāṇūro bhajyamānāṅgo

cāṇūraḥ

Cāṇūra

bhajyamāna

being broken

aṅgaḥ

his entire body

muhur glānim avāpa ha

muhuḥ

more and more

glānim

pain and fatigue

avāpa ha

felt .

Important Words

bhagavat - gātra — the limbs of the Supreme Lord
Compound: bhagavat + gātra (limb). The Bhāgavatam never lets the Lord's body shrink into a mere fighting body — even mid-strike, it is named bhagavat-gātra. Gauḍīyas note: His limbs do not become demoniac instruments; the demon is destroyed by His sac-cid-ānanda body.
vajra - niṣpeṣa — crushing like a thunderbolt
Compound: vajra (thunderbolt) + niṣpeṣa (grinding, pulverizing). The same vajra-vocabulary that verse 8 used for the wrestlers — now relocated to the Lord's limbs. The reversal is the verse's whole rhetorical action.
bhajyamāna — being broken
Passive participle of √bhañj — to break. Phonetically close to bhajyamāna (being-worshiped) from √bhaj. The Bhāgavatam loves these near-homophones: the demon is bhajyamāna in one root while the gopīs are bhajyamānā in the other.
glānim — fatigue, exhaustion
Accusative of glāni — decline, weariness. Cf. BG 4.7, yadā yadā hi dharmasya glāniḥ — when dharma's glāni appears, He appears. Here, glāni appears in the demon's body, which is the same thing in another grammar.

The harsh blows from the Supreme Lord’s limbs fell like crushing lightning bolts upon Cāṇūra, breaking every part of his body and causing him more and more pain and fatigue.

Purport

Cāṇūra’s elbows, arms, knees and other limbs were all weakening.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

The harsh blows from the Supreme Lord's limbs fell like crushing lightning bolts upon Cāṇūra, breaking every part of his body and causing him more and more pain and fatigue.

Commentary

By hard blows like crushing lightning bolts, Krsna injured the limbs of Canura.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

Kṛṣṇa had inconceivable śakti (bhagavān). Because of this, Kṛṣṇa appeared as a thunderbolt among the wrestlers. Camera’s limbs broke because of the cruel crush of thunderbolts.

Related values & verses

Related values

Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)

Concepts

Jiva

Personal Guidance

The harsh blows from the Lord's limbs fall like crushing lightning on Cāṇūra, breaking every part of his body. The Lord's casual strength is, to His enemies, devastating.

Reflection Questions

Where might Kṛṣṇa's gentle limb be a lightning bolt for the demon side of you?
What part of your life is being broken because it belongs to the wrong side?

Analogy

The Lord's strikes fall on Cāṇūra like lightning bolts on a tree. Verse 8 had named the wrestlers vajra-bodied; now the actual vajra is on the other side. The grammar of hardness has reversed.

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