Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.44.36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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tārkṣya - sutaḥ
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son of Tārkṣya (Garuḍa)
Compound: tārkṣya (the sage / Garuḍa's father) + suta (son). Garuḍa — Viṣṇu's eternal carrier. The verse invokes him to describe Kṛṣṇa's seizure: Kṛṣṇa moves like His own mount, the Lord borrows the gesture of His own servant.
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uragam
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a serpent
From ura (chest) + ga (going) — 'chest-goer', one who moves on the chest. The classical Sanskrit word for snake. Kaṁsa, in the verse's typology, is the chest-goer; Kṛṣṇa is the sky-goer.
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durviṣaha - ugra - tejāḥ
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of intolerable, fierce splendor
Compound: durviṣaha (unbearable) + ugra (fierce) + tejas (radiance). Three intensifiers stacked. The Bhāgavatam underlines that what Kaṁsa faces is not a wrestler but Bhagavān's tejas — the demon would not survive even staring.
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samagrahīt
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He seized completely
Imperfect of sam + √grah. The total grasp. Cf. SB 10.6 (Pūtanā's seizure) and SB 10.4 (Kaṁsa seizing the infant Devakī's daughter). The chapter is closing the loop: the seizer is finally seized.
Kaṁsa moved about quickly in various ways (vi—carantam), circling around, to the left and right with great skill, like a hawk in the sky. This indicates that he was hard to catch. But Kṛṣṇa seized him with great strength (prasahya) since he was endowed with great, intolerable ferocity (durviṣahogra-tejā), just as Garuḍa attacks intolerably ferocious snakes. The example shows that many intolerably ferocious snakes can be easily caught since their power is ordinary compared to Kṛṣṇa’s.
- Where do you overestimate the speed of a problem and underestimate Kṛṣṇa's grip?
- What hawk-fast threat needs to be handed to Garuḍa today?
Kaṁsa darts side to side like a hawk in the sky; Kṛṣṇa seizes him as Garuḍa seizes a snake. The bird-of-prey simile that the Bhāgavatam gave Cāṇūra (verse 21) is now applied to Kaṁsa — and immediately swallowed by the bigger bird. The hawk meets Garuḍa.
Garuḍa is Viṣṇu's mount and the eternal enemy of serpents — in the Mahābhārata's Ādi-parva, his birth-song is the song of snakes scattering. Wherever Garuḍa lands, the snake-tribes flee or are eaten.
The Bhāgavatam invokes Garuḍa here as the natural figure for Kṛṣṇa's seizure of Kaṁsa. The demon is named a snake-equivalent; the Lord is named tārkṣya-sutaḥ (Garuḍa). Gauḍīyas note: this is not random simile — the verse is identifying Kaṁsa typologically with the sarpa-class of obstacles, the residual ahaṅkāra that bhakti must finally devour.
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Source: vedabase.io