Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.66.20
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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tyājayiṣye
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I will make (you) renounce
Future causative of √tyaj. Echoes Pauṇḍroaka's tyaja (verse 5: 'give up Your false name'). The grammar is precise — Pauṇḍraka said an imperative; Kṛṣṇa replies in the causative future, 'I will make you give up' — the chapter's central reversal compressed into a single verbal form.
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abhidhānam
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designation
From abhi-√dhā (to name). The word for a proper name and, in Gauḍīya theology, the second of the three Vedānta categories (sambandha, abhidheya, prayojana — abhidheya = the practice of bhakti). The very vocabulary of the tradition resurfaces in the duel — and on Bhagavān's tongue.
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mṛṣā
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falsely
Adverb. Picks up mithyā of verse 5. Pauṇḍroaka had said Kṛṣṇa's name was mithyā-abhidhā; Kṛṣṇa now says Pauṇḍraka has assumed Kṛṣṇa's name mṛṣā. Two near-synonyms for falsehood, exchanged between accuser and accused — the diction of the chapter is itself the trial.
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vrajāmi śaraṇam
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I will go for shelter
Phrase: vrajāmi (present of √vraj, to go) + śaraṇam (refuge, accusative). The exact Gītā 18.66 form (mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja). Kṛṣṇa uses śaraṇāgati-language sardonically: 'I will take śaraṇa of you' — only if I don't choose battle. The phrase is meant ironically; doctrinally it is the very thing no one but Kṛṣṇa can offer (śaraṇa goes to Him, not from Him).
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saṁyugam
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battle
From sam-√yuj (to be yoked together). The 'yoking' of two warriors. Note the verbal echo with yoga — saṁyuga and yoga share a root. In Kṛṣṇa's mouth, even battle is yoga; it is yoking-with that ends in the deliverance the chapter eventually grants Pauṇḍraka.
Śrīla Prabhupāda writes as follows: “Now, Pauṇḍraka, I shall force you to give up this false representation. You wanted Me to surrender unto you. Now this is your opportunity. We shall fight, and if I am defeated and you become victorious, I shall certainly surrender unto you.”
You told me to give up my false name. I will make you renounce your false name. Tyājya (give up) can have a causative meaning (make you give up). Thus Kṛṣṇa says that he is giving another meaning to Pauṇḍraka’s words. “You should act according the messenger’s words.” Yes, on seeing you today, I will surrender according to your words, if I do not fight. Instead of adya (today) sometimes ajña (fool) is seen. By this Kṛṣṇa mocks him.
- What demand have I made of God that I would be embarrassed to have repeated to me?
- Where am I bargaining with reality rather than receiving it?
A king strips a thief of the borrowed crown and gives him the gallows in exchange — the throne the thief had asked for, in its true form. Kṛṣṇa's promise to make Pauṇḍraka renounce 'My name' will be kept on the battlefield, with steel for instructor.
My note
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