Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.67.3
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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apacitim
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repayment of debt
Apaciti = recompense, settling of accounts. Asuric ṛṇa-bhāva: the debt here is owed not to Bhagavān or guru but to a slain demon-friend (Naraka). Same grammar of obligation, opposite orientation — the very structure of bondage.
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rāṣṭra-viplavam
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great disturbance of the kingdom
Compound: rāṣṭra (realm) + viplava (upheaval, deluge). Asuric grief seeks to drown the social order itself. Gauḍīyas see Kali-yuga rāṣṭra-viplava in miniature here: private grievance scaled into public destruction.
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ghoṣān
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cowherd communities
The vraja-style cow-villages — the very form of life Kṛṣṇa most cherishes. Dvivida specifically targets ghoṣas because they belong to Hari; attacking what Bhagavān loves is the asura's instinct.
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adahat
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he burned
Imperfect of √dah (to burn). Fire that should cook the offering (yajña) is here used to consume the offerers. Gauḍīya teaching: the same elements (agni, jala, anna) serve either yajña or pralaya depending on the hand wielding them.
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vahnim-utsṛjan
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spreading fire about
Vahni = fire (lit. "the carrier" — carrier of oblations to the devas). Here the carrier is unhitched from yajña and let loose. The chapter is already drawing the contrast between agni-as-sevā and agni-as-revenge.
Kṛṣṇa had killed Dvivida’s friend Naraka, and to retaliate the ape intended to destroy Lord Kṛṣṇa’s flourishing kingdom. In Kṛṣṇa Śrīla Prabhupāda writes: “His first business was to set fires in villages, towns and industrial and mining places, as well as in the residential quarters of the mercantile men who were busy dairy farming and protecting cows.”
In order to take revenge for the killing of Narakasura, he began to burn the cowherd villages to destroy the country.
Paying debt to his friend out of respect, he set fire to the cities, caused damage to the lands around Dvārakā such as Saurāṣṭra. Or rāṣṭra-viplavam can modify apacitim: he paid his debt to his friend in the form of causing havoc in the country. The word vānaraḥ (monkey) is repeated in this verse from the last verse to emphasize his fickle and evil nature. The order is from greater to lesser: cities, villages, mines and cowherd villages. If he destroyed the larger cities, he definitely destroyed the rest.
His activities are described. He set fire to the towns of Saurāṣṭra near Dvārakā. This list is in order from larger to smaller places. If he destroyed the cities, what to speak of the other places?
- What grudge in me masquerades as 'loyalty' to someone or something?
- Where has revenge been my real motive while I told myself a nobler story?
A grudge is a fire that needs new fuel each day; Dvivida burns cities, villages, mines, cowherd hamlets — and still the heat in him is not paid off. Revenge is the one debt that grows with every installment.
My note
Source: vedabase.io