Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.6.11
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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akhila - jīva - marmaṇi
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in every center of her vitality
Compound — akhila (all) + jīva (living force) + marman (vital point, locative plural). Vedic anatomy names 107 marmas; Kṛṣṇa presses all of them simultaneously. The verse insists that Pūtanā's annihilation is total, not symbolic — there is no part of her false-mother form left to regroup.
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muñca
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give up / leave (me)
Imperative of muc (to release). Repeated for force. The same root underlies mokṣa — and indeed by being unable to make Kṛṣṇa muñca her, she ends up receiving mokṣa from Him in verse 35. The verb she shouts at Him becomes the gift He gives her.
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niṣpīḍyamānā
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being severely pressed
Passive present participle of niṣpīḍ (to press out, squeeze). The grammar is passive — she is not acting, she is being acted upon. Māyā's whole stance reverses: from agent to patient, from holder to held.
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prasvinna - gātrā
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with her body perspiring
Compound — prasvinna (perspiring) + gātra (body, feminine). Bhāgavata catalogs the involuntary signs of breakdown — sweat, wide eyes, flailing limbs — to make the unmasking complete and undeniable. The mother-disguise drips off her in sweat.
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ruroda
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cried severely
Perfect of rud (to weep, wail). The Bhāgavata gives the demon her actual voice for the first time — and it is a wail, not the seductive lullaby of verses 5–7. Speech tells the truth where appearance lied.
The Rākṣasī was severely punished by Kṛṣṇa. She threw her arms and legs about, and Kṛṣṇa also began to kick her with His legs to punish her properly for her mischievous activities.
Being squeezed by the child in all her sensitive points, she began flailing her hands and legs.
After saying “get away from me” she could not repeat it since she had no strength to utter any more. He pressed all the points (marma) containing life in her body. She cried out in pain, while crying. The word ha expresses joy.
She shouted loudly, but uselessly (alam). He pressed all the points where life resided in her. She cried loudly. Ha expresses bliss.
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- Name one viṣaya you have been 'feeding' as Pūtanā fed Kṛṣṇa, and today refuse it one concrete time — skip the scroll, the snack, the second look.
- When an attachment screams 'leave me, leave me!' as it loosens, do not rescue it; let Kṛṣṇa finish the work and chant His names through the discomfort.
- Before sleep, offer your day's vital points — ambitions, fears, resentments — to Kṛṣṇa's feet, asking Him to press out whatever is not bhakti.
Pūtanā shrieking 'muñca, muñca' is the householder addicted to a viṣaya finally crying for it to release him — not the other way around. By the time Kṛṣṇa squeezes the vital points, the chain that looked like the demon's grip on Him is revealed to be Kṛṣṇa's grip on her, and she begs for the very freedom she was sure she had taken.
The fallen brāhmaṇa Ajāmila (SB 6.1–3), in his last agony, called his son Nārāyaṇa's name — and the Viṣṇudūtas appeared. He had not meant to chant; the Yamadūtas were already pressing on his vital points (marma). The cry came out anyway, and Hari was bound by His own name.
Pūtanā's 'muñca, muñca' is the bookend: she too is in marmaṇi pressure, she too cries out at the very person whose name is destroying and liberating her in one motion. Even the unwanted scream toward Kṛṣṇa is not wasted.
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Source: vedabase.io