Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.50.34
हतेषु सर्वानीकेषु नृपो बार्हद्रथस्तदा ।
उपेक्षितो भगवता मगधान् दुर्मना ययौ ॥ ३४ ॥
hateṣu sarvānīkeṣu
[hateshu sarvaaneekeshu]
nṛpo bārhadrathas tadā
[nripo baarhadrathas tadaa]
upekṣito bhagavatā
[upekshito bhagavataa]
magadhān durmanā yayau
[magadhaan durmanaa yayau]
Word-for-word
hateṣu
—
having been killed
sarva
—
all
anīkeṣu
—
the soldiers of his armies
nṛpaḥ
—
the king
bārhadrathaḥ
—
Jarāsandha, the son of Bṛhadratha
tadā
—
then
upekṣitah
—
neglected
bhagavatā
—
by the Supreme Lord
magadhān
—
to the Magadha kingdom
durmanāḥ
—
depressed
yayau
—
he went .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
hateṣu sarvānīkeṣu
hateṣu
having been killed
sarva
all
anīkeṣu
the soldiers of his armies
nṛpo bārhadrathas tadā
nṛpaḥ
the king
bārhadrathaḥ
Jarāsandha, the son of Bṛhadratha
tadā
then
upekṣito bhagavatā
upekṣitah
neglected
bhagavatā
by the Supreme Lord
magadhān durmanā yayau
magadhān
to the Magadha kingdom
durmanāḥ
depressed
yayau
he went .
Important Words
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upekṣitah
—
neglected, disregarded
Past participle of upa-īkṣ — 'to look past.' (The source synonym is rendered upekṣitah; standard form upekṣitaḥ.) Crucial Bhāgavata theological term. Worse than being killed by the Lord is being looked past. Compare Kṛṣṇa's upekṣa of Aghāsura's mother's grief: divine inattention is the heaviest sentence.
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bhagavatā
—
by the Supreme Lord
Instrumental of Bhagavān. The verse insists on the title at the moment of upekṣa — He who possesses all opulence is precisely the one who can afford to look past Jarāsandha. The neglect is sovereign, not casual.
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durmanāḥ
—
depressed, ill-minded
Compound: dus (bad) + manas (mind). The mental aftermath of being upekṣita-by-Bhagavān: durmanas. Devotional language — Caitanya-caritāmṛta uses similar terms for separation-grief — but here twisted into demonic depression rather than viraha-prema.
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bārhadrathaḥ
—
the son of Bṛhadratha
Patronymic. Bṛhadratha — the king who, childless, performed sacrifices that produced Jarāsandha in two halves later joined by Jarā (cf. Mahābhārata Sabhā 14–16). The patronymic surfaces just as Jarāsandha goes back to Magadha — back to his origin-story.
All of his armies having been killed, and himself neglected by the Personality of Godhead, King Jarāsandha, son of Bṛhadratha, then sadly returned to the kingdom of the Magadhas.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
All of his armies having been killed, and himself neglected by the Personality of Godhead, King Jarāsandha, son of Bṛhadratha, then sadly returned to the kingdom of the Magadhas.
Commentary
The son of Brhadratha, Barhadratha or Jarasandha, went to Magadha.
Jīva Gosvāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
Jarāsandha was famous as the son of a great emperor Bṛhadratha. Because of his pride he was rejected by the Lord and returned to his kingdom with a grieving heart (durmanā).
Śrīdhara Svāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
He was a king, moreover the son of a brave warrior (barhadrathas), but lamented in his heart, because the desire to fight with the Lord did not go away.
Related values & verses
Concepts
Jiva
Personal Guidance
Armies killed, neglected by the Lord, Jarāsandha sadly returns to Magadha. The Lord's neglect is itself a form of judgment; being ignored after defeat is worse than being killed.
Reflection Questions
- Where could the Lord's 'silence' about an opponent of yours be itself definitive?
- How do you read divine non-response as a complete response?
Analogy
All armies dead, even the king himself neglected — upekṣita — by the Personality of Godhead, Jarāsandha trudges back to Magadha. To be 'neglected by Bhagavān' is, in Bhāgavata reckoning, the deepest poverty; the demon has fame, vassals, and even his life, but Kṛṣṇa has looked past him.
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