Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.72.39
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sama-śikṣā-bala-ojasoḥ
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of equal training, strength, and stamina
Compound genitive dual. Three parameters: śikṣā (technical training), bala (raw strength), ojas (sustained stamina). All three are equal. The Bhāgavatam is precise — only divine intervention can break this.
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nirviśeṣam
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indecisive
Accusative neuter. Nirviśeṣa — without distinguishing feature. The fight has no asymmetry to exploit. Gauḍīya: in material symmetry only Kṛṣṇa's mercy creates difference.
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akṣīṇa-javayoḥ
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whose exertion was undiminished
Compound genitive dual. Akṣīṇa-java — energy not waning. Twenty-seven days into the duel, neither fighter shows fatigue. This is the impasse Kṛṣṇa must end.
Some ācāryas include the following two verses in the text of this chapter, and Śrīla Prabhupāda has also translated them in Kṛṣṇa: evaṁ tayor mahā-rāja yudhyatoḥ sapta-viṁśatiḥ dināni niragaṁs tatra suhṛd-van niśi tiṣṭhatoḥ ekadā mātuleyaṁ vai prāha rājan vṛkodaraḥ na śakto ’haṁ jarāsandhaṁ nirjetuṁ yudhi mādhava “At the end of each day’s fighting, they lived at night as friends in Jarāsandha’s palace, and the next day they fought again. In this way they passed twenty-seven days in fighting. On the twenty-eighth day, Bhīmasena told Kṛṣṇa, ‘My dear Kṛṣṇa, must frankly admit that I cannot conquer Jarāsandha.’”
They fought without becoming tired (akṣīṇa-javayoḥ). They did not stop fighting.
- Where am I locked in a deadlock that more effort will not resolve?
- What kind of insight, not effort, is the situation asking for?
Two scales perfectly balanced cannot tip until weight is added to one pan. The duel is dead-locked because the contestants are equal. Without external intervention the duel would simply continue. Verse 40 supplies the weight — Kṛṣṇa pours svena tejasā into Bhīma's pan.
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