Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.72.15
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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ajitam
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unconquered
Accusative. The Mahābhārata records Jarāsandha as the one king who had repulsed Kṛṣṇa Himself seventeen times at Mathurā. He is structurally ajita — and only Kṛṣṇa's special arrangement can undo him.
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dhyāyataḥ
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as he pondered
Genitive present participle. Yudhiṣṭhira's worry is a meditation; while he meditates, Kṛṣṇa speaks. A Gauḍīya hint: anxious meditation on a problem, held in the Lord's presence, draws out His solution.
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ādyaḥ
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the original (Person)
Nominative. Kṛṣṇa is named ādya — the original — at the moment of unveiling the strategy. The same ādya who designs the cosmos designs the death of Jarāsandha.
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uddhavaḥ
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Uddhava
Nominative. The plan's human source. Gauḍīyas treasure Uddhava as Kṛṣṇa's most confidential mantri — and the future receiver of the Uddhava-gītā in Canto 11.
Hari, the most excellent (adyah), told him the means of conquering Jarasandha.
Nārada told him that Jarāsandha remained unconquered. The Lord did not say yet what Uddhava had said. Yudhiṣṭhira thought in his mind how to defeat him. Though Bhīma was most courageous and filled with the power of the Lord, he returned without defeating Jarāsandha on a secret instruction from the Lord. The Lord then told him the means with joy (ha). The Lord was the root form of all avatāras (ādyaḥ). īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam ||1|| Kṛṣṇa is the supreme controller. He is the enjoyer of innumerable consorts, and the possessor of an eternal form of knowledge and bliss. Though, he is without origin, he is the source of all other forms of God, and is the cause of all causes. He is Govinda, the boy who cares for the cows. Brahma-saṁhitā
Hearing this, the king became to think of a method of killing Jarāsandha or in sorrow he worried. When he did this, Kṛṣṇa spoke. Or Kṛṣṇa, who removes all worries, who is most excellent (ādhyaḥ) because he manifest his nature as bhagavān, spoke to the king who was thinking about Jarāsandha after hearing he could not be defeated. Or Kṛṣṇa spoke what Uddhava, the chief (ādhyaḥ) among ministers, spoke.
- What blocked direction in my life have I forgotten to ask Kṛṣṇa about?
- Where might the answer be already waiting if I sat still long enough?
When a city has a fortress no army can crack, a king does not throw more armies at it — he goes to the engineer who designed cities and asks. Jarāsandha was undefeated by the dig-vijaya; Yudhiṣṭhira goes to Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa quietly reveals the plan Uddhava had already devised.
Uddhava — disciple of Bṛhaspati, intimate friend of Kṛṣṇa — had already worked out, in earlier consultation, how Jarāsandha must be approached: not by armies but by a single dvanda-yuddha with Bhīma, after disguised entry. The verse marks Kṛṣṇa's quiet retrieval of that counsel.
Gauḍīyas note: even Bhagavān honours the deliberations of His pure devotees by deploying their advice. Uddhava-gītā (SB 11.6–29) will display this same Kṛṣṇa-Uddhava intimacy at greater length.
My note
Source: vedabase.io