Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.61.13
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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nāgnajiteḥ
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of Nagnajitī
Genitive of Nāgnajitī, daughter of Nagnajit. Fourth of the aṣṭa-mahiṣīs. The name preserves her father's lineage even as she becomes Kṛṣṇa's — the patrilineal stamp is Bhāgavata convention.
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śrī-mān
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opulent
śrī (opulence) + mān (possessing). A standard Bhāgavata epithet applied here to Kunti, last of Nāgnajitī's sons. The opulence is borrowed downward from Kṛṣṇa, the original Śrīmān.
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sutāḥ
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the sons
From √sū, 'to give birth, to press out.' The same root yields soma (the pressed-out juice) — a quiet hint that sons are the 'pressing-out' of the parents' own substance.
Śrīmān (possessing beauty) can modify all the sons or modify the last son.
Śrīmān (possessing beauty) can modify Vasu or Kunti. Or since Satyambhāmā’s son was named Bhānu, one son of Nāgnajiti was named Bhānuścandra (instead of vīraś and candra in the text) and another son was named Śrīmān.
- How can I learn to honor the unnoticed lives around me as the Bhāgavatam honors these names?
- What in my own story am I overlooking that Kṛṣṇa might consider worth remembering?
Like Nagnajitī's seven bulls subdued by Kṛṣṇa in one stroke, her ten sons march out two-by-two with names of speed and vigour — Vegavān, Aśvasena — the very qualities by which their father won their mother's hand.
In SB 10.58, King Nagnajit of Kosala had vowed to give his daughter Nagnajitī (also called Satyā) to whoever could yoke his seven ferocious bulls. Many princes had failed. Kṛṣṇa expanded into seven forms and subdued all seven bulls simultaneously, then took her in marriage.
Her son named Aśvasena ('army of horses') and Vegavān ('the swift one') carry the same energy of mastered animal-power — the family-vibhūti is consistent with the līlā by which the family began.
My note
Source: vedabase.io