Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.21
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vraja
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cow pastures
Vraja in the literal sense — moving cattle-camps. The same word names the Vṛndāvana of Kṛṣṇa's childhood. Even in geographic listing, the word carries a perfume of His original līlā-bhūmi.
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hariḥ
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Lord Hari
Hari — He who takes away (sins, sorrows, the bondage of seers). The traveller-name. Wherever Hari passes, something is taken.
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vinaśanam
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Vinaśana, the district of Kurukṣetra
Literally 'place of destruction' — where the Sarasvatī disappears into the desert. The toponym foreshadows Kurukṣetra's later role as Bhagavad-gītā's stage; geography is theology.
Krsna, passing through Anarta, Sauvira, Maru and Kuruksetra (vinasanam), crossed mountains, rivers, cities, villages, pastures and quarries.
Crossing mountains and rivers, he passed through different provinces and passed through cities, villages, cow pastures and mines. Sauvīra and Pāñcāla were on the road he took.
The provinces were huge, like the ocean. Thus they had to be crossed as one crosses the ocean (tīrthvā). Or tīrthvā indicates that they crossed rivers. The Lord removed all suffering from the people of those places (hariḥ). He crossed the rivers and mountains of those places.
- What real-world steps is the Lord taking toward me that I have not noticed?
- Where am I waiting for Him to arrive when He is already on the road?
Kṛṣṇa passing through Ānarta, Sauvīra, Marudeśa and Vinaśana — over rivers, hills, cities, villages, cow-pastures and quarries — is like the same monsoon-cloud crossing every landscape it touches: each region receives whatever it can hold of His passage.
My note
Source: vedabase.io