Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.18
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dviṣanti
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hate
Present third-person plural of √dviṣ. The catalog of His enemies — each of whom He has defeated. Reciting them as a deterrent is doubly ironic: the more they hate Him, the more certain her safety with Him.
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caidya-śālva-jarāsandha-dantavakra-ādayaḥ
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Caidya (Śiśupāla), Śālva, Jarāsandha, Dantavakra and others
Compound chain naming the great asura-kings of His era. Gauḍīyas read each as types of obstruction to bhakti — pride (Śiśupāla), magical illusion (Śālva), tyrannical kingship (Jarāsandha), envy (Dantavakra). Bhagavān removes them serially across Canto 10.
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rukmī
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Rukmī, your elder brother
Her own brother is named among His haters. The verse calculatedly touches the bruise — and Rukmiṇī, in v. 56, will be praised for the silence with which she bore Rukmī's eventual death. The pralambha-līlā is set up here.
She may ask,"Then why did you take me as your wife?" He therefore says, "I took you because Sisupala, Salva, Jarasanda, Dantavakra and your brother Rukmi were my enemies."
“Why then did you bring me here?” He answers in two verses. They hate me and more particularly your elder brother Rukmī hates me. The present tense is used because of proximity to the present and because it will be later described that Rukmī was killed.
The order of hatred is from the most intense (Śiśupāla) to the least intense. The elder brother of you, my devotee, also hates me. Kṛṣṇa uses the singular (mama) here though in other places he uses the plural. That is because in showing their hatred, he is not prominent.
- Where do enemies of Kṛṣṇa include people in your own family?
- How do you hold love for both?
He recites a list of His own enemies as if it were a recommendation letter — Śiśupāla, Śālva, Jarāsandha, Dantavakra, even her brother Rukmī. 'See how many great kings hate Me?' The threat is real on the surface; the affection beneath is real all the way down.
In SB 10.50, Jarāsandha of Magadha attacks Mathurā seventeen times to avenge his son-in-law Kaṁsa; each time Kṛṣṇa lets him retreat alive. The repeated assault is what drives the building of Dvārakā in the ocean (the very 'shelter' He referenced in v. 12).
The chapter's mention of Jarāsandha as Kṛṣṇa's 'hater' connects the present teasing to Mathurā's whole arc: the cosmic enemies are real, and yet the Lord's queens fear nothing in His company — until He invents a fear for them in jest.
In SB 10.54 Rukmī attempts to stop Kṛṣṇa from carrying off Rukmiṇī; the Lord defeats and disfigures him at Rukmiṇī's pleading. Later, in SB 10.61, Rukmī is killed by Balarāma during the gambling at Aniruddha's wedding.
Verse 56 of this chapter explicitly recalls Rukmī's death — but here in v. 18 Kṛṣṇa names him casually among His haters, deliberately touching the wound. The tease is sharpened by family pain that the queen carries silently.
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