Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.17
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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viśīryamāṇam
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being torn apart
Present passive participle of vi-√śṝ (to break, scatter). The army does not collapse all at once; it is being torn apart in real time. The verse marks the moment Bāṇa sees his structure dissolve.
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ati-amarṣitaḥ
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extremely intolerant
Compound: ati (very) + amarṣita (unable to tolerate). Amarṣa is the asura's reflex — what bhakti calls titikṣā (forbearance) the asura cannot perform. Bāṇa's intolerance is the inverse of the Vaiṣṇava's chief virtue.
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abhyadravat
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rushed toward
Imperfect of abhi-√dru (to run at). The same root as dudruvuḥ in the previous verse — his soldiers ran away, he runs toward. Both motions end in his loss; the asura cannot stay still long enough to surrender.
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hitvā eva sātyakim
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abandoning Sātyaki
Bāṇa's mistake is to break engagement with his appointed opponent to challenge the Lord directly. Gauḍīyas read this as the conditioned soul's typical leap: skipping the guru (here, Sātyaki, who would have ended him in due course) to confront Bhagavān unprepared.
Seeing his army (balam) scattered, Bāṇa left his fight with Sātyaki and attacked Kṛṣṇa.
His troops were destroyed or broken. Or he saw in the fight with Sātyakī that his power had withered away. Fighting with him was useless. Why waste my powers? I should fight with the main opponent, Kṛṣṇa. He thus charged towards Kṛṣṇa quickly since he mounted a chariot with a charioteer named Nandīśvara. nandīśa-saṁgṛhītāśvam adhirūḍho mahāratham / bāṇas tatrāyayau yoddhuṁ kṛṣṇa-kārṣṇibalaiḥ saha // Bāṇa, mounted on a huge chariot with horses guided by Nandīśa, then came to fight with Kṛṣṇa and his armies. Viṣṇu Purāṇa Though it was not proper to give up fighting the opponent, he gave up Sātyaki without winning (eva has meaning of vā) because he was very angry.
- Where is my own wounded pride pushing me into a confrontation I am not ready for?
- How might that very confrontation actually be the Lord drawing me close?
An asura's logic is escalation: when the periphery breaks, charge the center. Bāṇa abandons Sātyaki and rushes Kṛṣṇa — exactly the wrong direction, the way a moth charges the very flame that is already consuming its kin.
My note
Source: vedabase.io