Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.61.31
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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manyunā
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by anger
From √man, 'to think' — manyu names a deep, considered anger, distinct from sudden krodha. The Bhāgavata chooses the deliberate word; Balarāma's wrath is not impulsive but ripening.
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samudraḥ
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the ocean
From sam + udra, 'gathering of waters.' The simile aligns Balarāma with the cosmic ocean — and Gauḍīyas identify Him with Kṣīrodakaśāyī, the Ocean-resting Viṣṇu. The image is literal-theological, not merely poetic.
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parvaṇi
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on the full-moon day
From parvan, 'a joint, a knot of time' — specifically the full-moon and new-moon nodes. The ocean swells at parvan because sun and moon align. The Bhāgavata picks the most charged time-word for the swelling rage.
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aruṇa
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reddish
Names the dawn-color, and Sūrya's charioteer Aruṇa. Balarāma's eyes are jātyā aruṇa — naturally rose-coloured even at rest, a sign of His Saṅkarṣaṇa-fury just beneath the surface.
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nyarbudam
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of one hundred million
One nyarbuda = 100,000,000. The stakes have climbed from 100 (verse 29) to 100 million — a thousand-thousand-fold escalation in three exchanges. Bhāgavata-storytelling at its most controlled.
Balarama accepted a wager of ten crores of coins (nyarbudha).
Balarāma was endowed with a wealth of glories (śrīṁān). However, Śukadeva, remembering Balarāma’s urge to kill the demon and also remembering his manifestation of special power, understood that he could not be agitated but sometimes he became dangerously agitated like the ocean. His naturally red eyes became even redder because of extreme anger.
Though endowed with a wealth of patience (śrīmān), and though not inclined to agitation, sometimes he becomes agitated, like the ocean. By nature he had red eyes, but by the agitation the eyes became redder. Or though having red eyes by nature, agitated by great anger, he moved his brows. Thus he was beautiful (śrīmān).
- Is my anger turning me toward justice or away from engagement?
- Where am I called to stay in a situation I would rather walk away from?
Like the ocean swelling at the full moon — when sun and moon pull at the waters from opposite sides — Balarāma's calm surface rises into the great tide, His naturally-red eyes redder still, the stakes themselves climbing to a hundred million.
My note
Source: vedabase.io