Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.41
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kālanemiḥ
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the demon Kālanemi
The previous incarnation of Kaṁsa. Bhāgavatam's view of asuric continuity: demons return until they are released by Bhagavān's direct action. The chapter's whole metaphysics of birth (verses 36-40) is in service of explaining such reincarnations.
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kaṁsaḥ
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Kaṁsa
Devakī's brother, the central asura of Canto 10. Kṛṣṇa names him by name as a 'past completed action.' The book is recursive — Mucukunda is in the same canto whose protagonists Kṛṣṇa is summarizing.
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pralamba
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Pralamba
The asura killed by Balarāma (SB 10.18). Mentioning him here folds Balarāma's deeds into Kṛṣṇa's own account — the two are non-different in mission, and Kṛṣṇa speaks for both.
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sat-dviṣaḥ
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envious of the pious
Compound: sat (the saintly) + dviṣaḥ (haters). The Vaiṣṇava category for asura — not 'evil' abstractly but specifically 'devotee-haters.' Bhagavān's mission targets those who target His devotees.
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tigma-cakṣuṣā
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by the piercing glance
Compound: tigma (sharp, fiery) + cakṣuṣā (by the eye). Mucukunda's glance is credited inside Bhagavān's own deeds-list. Gauḍīyas treasure this: the bhakta's instrument is the Lord's instrument; Mucukunda's eye-fire is Kṛṣṇa's action accomplished through him.
He describes his activities. Kālameni and Kaṁsa were killed by me.
He describes his activities. Kālameni and Kaṁsa were killed by me because they hated devotees (sad-dviṣaḥ). O king, shining with intelligence (rājan), you can understand this. Or o king shining with the benedictions of the devatās like Śiva! You cannot be killed.
- Where do you take credit alone for what was collaboration with the Lord?
- How does Kṛṣṇa's crediting His devotee model your own credit-sharing?
Kṛṣṇa lists His current births' work like a soldier reading a brief: Kālanemi reborn as Kaṁsa, Pralamba, others, and now this Yavana — burnt to ash by your glance. He acknowledges Mucukunda's role; the sage's tapas is enrolled into the avatāra's mission.
Kālanemi was the asura killed by Viṣṇu in an earlier age (referenced in Hari-vaṁśa and the Bhāgavata itself at SB 10.51.41). His soul, untransformed, reincarnated as Kaṁsa — the same enmity, the same Lord, a new birth.
Gauḍīyas read this as the Vaiṣṇava metaphysics of asura-rebirth: hatred toward Bhagavān is itself a form of remembrance, sustained across lives, until finally consumed by direct contact with His person. Even the demon's bondage to Bhagavān is a kind of bond.
My note
Source: vedabase.io