Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.76.1
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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krīḍā
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for playing
Krīḍā signals līlā — sport, not necessity. The Lord's killing of Śālva is not the labour of a finite hero but the play of Bhagavān; this single word frames the entire chapter as transcendental pastime, not mundane war.
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nara-śarīrasya
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of Him whose body is humanlike
Contiguous join (nara + śarīrasya). Gauḍīyas read this through Brahma-saṁhitā 5.39: Kṛṣṇa's form is sac-cid-ānanda even when it appears nara-like. The 'humanlikeness' is the very door by which rasa with devotees becomes possible.
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karma adbhutam
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wonderful deed
Contiguous join. The Bhāgavatam repeatedly catalogues Kṛṣṇa's karmāṇy adbhutāni (cf. SB 10.1, 10.14). Adbhuta-rasa — wonder — is the secondary rasa that fringes every Vraja and Dvārakā pastime; Śuka pauses to mark this episode as belonging to that catalogue.
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saubha-patiḥ
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the lord of Saubha (Śālva)
Compound from synonyms (saubha + patiḥ). Śālva is named not by his own name but by his sky-city — a deliberate Bhāgavata signal that he is property of his vehicle, not its master. The asuric pattern: identification with one's hardware.
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śṛṇu
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please hear
Imperative of √śru — the very root that names śravaṇam, the first of the nine limbs of bhakti (SB 7.5.23). Śuka begins not with 'see' or 'understand' but with 'hear': Bhāgavata-rasa enters through the ear.
In the seventy sixth chapter, Salva, obtaining a boon from Siva, enters battle. Dyuman strikes Pradyumna so that he must leave the battle field. Hear the exploits of Krsna, who took a human form and performed playful pastimes (krida nara sarirasya). It is comparable to the compound saka parthivah, vegetable king, a king who enjoys vegetables.
After this (atha), when Kṛṣṇa returned to Dvārakā, he killed Sālva. That is explained later. This act was astonishing because Kṛṣṇa had a human like body for pastimes. He distributed various sweet pastimes in this form. What was the action? His manner of killing Sālva was amazing.
After this (atha), when Kṛṣṇa returned to Dvārakā, he killed Sālva. That is explained now. This act was astonishing because Kṛṣṇa had a human like body for pastimes. He distributed various sweet pastimes in this form, because he attracted everyone’s heart (kṛṣṇasya). O king! You are suitable for protecting the people by hearing this. What was the action? Killing Sālva was amazing. Hear how he killed Sālva.
- What is the next Kṛṣṇa pastime I will let into my hearing?
- Where could fresh exposure to His līlā revive a tired devotion?
Like a king who fights wearing the dress of an ordinary soldier so that the soldiers around him may share the field, Kṛṣṇa accepts a humanlike body (nara-śarīra) so that His killing of Saubha's master becomes a wondrous deed (karma adbhutam) audible to ears like ours.
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