Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.18
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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tulya-kālīnāḥ
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contemporaries
Compound: tulya (equal) + kālīnāḥ (of-the-time). Everyone time-stamped with you eventually receives the same forwarding-address — non-existence. The Bhāgavata's vocabulary for kāla is precise; this word names exactly the relationship Mucukunda is about to lose.
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kālitāḥ
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carried off by time
Verbal — they were 'time-d.' Kāla is treated as an active agent. In SB 11.5, Kṛṣṇa says kāla is His own form. Mucukunda's family was not merely lost; they were moved by Bhagavān Himself, in His Time-form.
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sutāḥ
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children
Plural of suta. The Bhāgavata names what was loved before naming what was lost; pathos is built up specifically. Vaiṣṇavas remember each suta is a separate jīva on a separate trajectory — bound to us in one birth, unbound in the next.
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mahiṣyaḥ
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queens
From mahiṣī — chief queen. Kingdom-relationships, the most exalted earthly bonds, treated as among the items kāla erases. Gauḍīyas read this verse as the structural counterpart to Yaśodā's eternal bond with Kṛṣṇa: vātsalya in Vraja never decays; mundane vātsalya does.
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amātya-mantriṇaḥ
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ministers and advisers
Compound: amātya + mantriṇaḥ — the cabinet. Even political loyalty is consumed by kāla. The demigods are dismantling Mucukunda's entire memory of belonging, in preparation for him to belong to Bhagavān alone.
They have been made to move (kalitah).
Amātya refers to followers and mantrinaḥ to more intimate followers. Instead of tulya-kālinaḥ sometimes tulya-kālīyā is seen.
Amātya refers a tax collector and mantrinaḥ to person who give advice. They do not exist now because they have attained other bodies (kālitāḥ) or they have been taken away.
- Where do you under-estimate the loneliness that long service produces?
- How do you honor someone who has outlived their generation?
A man returning to his village after a long campaign and finding every familiar face gone — children, wives, ministers, neighbors, all carried away by the current. Kāla has done the work no enemy could. The demigods are not consoling Mucukunda; they are introducing him to the only opponent he cannot defeat.
At the end of Mahābhārata's Mausala-parva, Yudhiṣṭhira learns that Kṛṣṇa has departed, the Yādavas have annihilated each other, and Dvārakā has been swallowed by the sea. His brothers begin the great journey north, and one by one fall along the path. Like Mucukunda waking to a world emptied by time, Yudhiṣṭhira walks through a kingdom where everyone he loved has been 'swept away.'
Gauḍīyas read both episodes as the same teaching: kāla erases everything earthly, and what remains is only what was offered to Bhagavān. Yudhiṣṭhira's final companion is dharma in canine form; Mucukunda's is Kṛṣṇa Himself.
My note
Source: vedabase.io