SB 10.55.13 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.55.13

एष त्वानिर्दशं सिन्धावक्षिपच्छम्बरोऽसुर: । मत्स्योऽग्रसीत्तदुदरादित: प्राप्तो भवान् प्रभो ॥ १३ ॥

eṣa tvānirdaśaṁ sindhāv

[esha tvaanirdasham sindhaav]

akṣipac chambaro ’suraḥ

[akshipach chambaro ’surah]

matsyo ’grasīt tad-udarād

[matsyo ’graseet tad-udaraad]

itaḥ prāpto bhavān prabho

[itah praapto bhavaan prabho]

Word-for-word

eṣaḥ — he tvā — You aniḥ - daśam — not yet ten days old sindhau — into the sea akṣipat — threw śambaraḥ — Śambara asuraḥ — the demon matsyaḥ — a fish agrasīt — devoured tat — its udarāt — from the belly itaḥ — here prāptaḥ — obtained bhavān — You prabho — O master .

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

eṣa tvānirdaśaṁ sindhāv

eṣaḥ

tvā

You

aniḥ - daśam

not yet ten days old

sindhau

into the sea

akṣipac chambaro ’suraḥ

akṣipat

threw

śambaraḥ

Śambara

matsyo ’grasīt tad-udarād

asuraḥ

the demon

matsyaḥ

a fish

agrasīt

devoured

tat

its

udarāt

from the belly

itaḥ prāpto bhavān prabho

itaḥ

here

prāptaḥ

obtained

bhavān

You

prabho

O master .

Important Words

aniḥ-daśam — not yet ten days old
Compound: an-iḥ (without) + daśam (the tenth). Repeated from v.3 verbatim. Rati's memory of His abduction is precise to the day; widowhood made her count. The detail also indicts Śambara: the child was below the threshold of Vedic society's protection.
sindhau-akṣipat — threw into the sea
Locative sindhau (in the sea) + akṣipat (hurled). Sindhu is the ocean as cosmic body — the same waters where Mahā-Viṣṇu reclines. The asura's violence dispatched the Lord's son into the Lord's own bedroom.
agrasīt — devoured
Aorist of √gras (to swallow). The same root used at v.4 for the fish; Rati's verb-choice matches the narrator's, marking her account as faithful exegesis, not embellishment.
udarāt — from the belly
Ablative of udara. The same noun as in v.6 (matsya-udara-niveśanam). Pradyumna's body has now made the full circuit — entered the belly, dwelt within, emerged. A parodic miniature of Garbhodaka-līlā.
prabho — O master
Repeated from v.12. Rati has shifted definitively to wife-mode; every utterance is now in the prabhu-frame. The repetition is doctrinal — the new naming is not a slip but a fixed address.

That demon, Śambara, threw You into the sea when You were not even ten days old, and a fish swallowed You. Then in this very place we recovered You from the fish’s abdomen, O master.

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

That demon, Śambara, threw You into the sea when You were not even ten days old, and a fish swallowed You. Then in this very place we recovered You from the fish's abdomen, O master.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

She described how he was stolen in order to make Pradyumna angry. Why did he throw me in the sea? He was a demon by nature, enemy of the devatās (asuraḥ). He was the chief of the demons, with great illusory powers, or famous as the enemy of Cupid (asuraḥ). She addresses him as master to confirm that he is her husband, or to show that he is capable of killing Śambara.

Related values & verses

Related values

Bhakti (Devotion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)Daksya (Resourcefulness / Skill)

Concepts

Jiva

Personal Guidance

Śambara threw You into the sea at under ten days; a fish swallowed You; in this place we recovered You from its belly. The whole story is given to the hero; he learns his own backstory from his consort.

Reflection Questions

Whose narration of your own backstory could you receive without defensiveness?
Where do you skip the story that would let you act on it?

Analogy

She tells Him His own story — 'thrown into the sea before You were ten days old, swallowed by a fish, retrieved in this very kitchen.' The bhakta narrates the Lord's biography back to Him; the Lord receives His past from the lips of the one who waited.

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