Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.2
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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nāradāt
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from Nārada
Ablative — the news comes from the parama-vaiṣṇava ṛṣi. The Bhāgavatam's own narrator-of-narrators; in Gauḍīya lineage, the dīkṣā-guru of Vyāsa and a founding link in the Brahma-Madhva-Gauḍīya paramparā.
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kṛṣṇa-daivatāḥ
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having Kṛṣṇa as their personal Deity
Compound: kṛṣṇa + daivatāḥ (those whose iṣṭa-deva). The Yadus' identity is given here as ananya-bhakti — Kṛṣṇa is not their kinsman first and Lord second; He is their Lord first. The verse models sambandha-jñāna for the household devotee.
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śoṇita-puram
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to Śoṇitapura
'Blood-city' — Bāṇāsura's capital. The toponym already carries the rasa: Kṛṣṇa enters a city named for blood to recover His own grandson, prefiguring the cutting of Bāṇa's thousand arms.
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vṛṣṇayaḥ
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the Vṛṣṇis
Kṛṣṇa's own clan. The Vṛṣṇis are the human household into which Bhagavān has descended; their lament moves Him because the Lord, having accepted nara-līlā, accepts also the bonds and obligations of family.
Hearing news of Anriuddha and his activities, the Vrsnis went to Sonitapura.
Tad refers to Aniruddha. Properly it should be tasya but for metrical reasons it is tad. They heard closely, secretly the news (upa—karṇya). They went to Śonita-pura with great zeal (pra--yayuh). Kṛṣṇa was Aniruddha’s grandfather and Svayam Bhagavān. He was the most worshippable by the Yadus (kṛṣṇa-daivatāḥ). This means that they did not have fear. This also means that Kṛṣṇa went, since they followed him.
Then (tat) hearing (ākarṇya) the news about Aniruddha (tat) from Nārada, closely, secretly (upa) the Yadus went with great zeal (pra) to Śonitapura because their deity was the supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Since they went by his order or by his mercy, they possessed all powers.
- Whose word in my life carries enough authority to move me to act?
- Where am I stalled because I have not sought reliable spiritual counsel?
When a watchman finally names the dungeon, the rescue can begin. Nārada speaks the name 'Śoṇitapura' and the Yadus, who already worship Kṛṣṇa as their iṣṭa-devatā, simply move where their Lord is going.
Throughout the Bhāgavatam, Nārada appears at the precise moment a līlā needs to advance — he carries word of Prahlāda to Hiraṇyakaśipu, of Dhruva's tapas to the Lord, of Ajāmila's son's name to the messengers. Here he carries word of Aniruddha's capture to Dvārakā.
Gauḍīyas read Nārada-muni as the eternal traveling preceptor: he never holds information for himself; every word he carries plants a seed of bhakti-līlā in another field.
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Source: vedabase.io