Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.77.6-7
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dharma-sūnunā
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by the son of Dharma
Compound: dharma + sūnu (son). Yudhiṣṭhira is named for his father Dharma — Gauḍīyas read every such patronym as a doctrinal compression: the one inviting Kṛṣṇa is dharma itself, son of dharma, calling Bhagavān into a yajña that dharma alone cannot complete.
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kuru-vṛddhān
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the Kuru elders
Compound: kuru (the Kuru lineage) + vṛddha (elder). Bhīṣma, Droṇa, Vidura — the elders Kṛṣṇa respectfully takes leave of. Even Bhagavān models the form of formal farewell to vṛddhas; haste in protection does not erase courtesy.
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nimittāni
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omens
Causal indicators, signs. Kṛṣṇa, the all-knower, also reads nimitta — Gauḍīyas note that He veils His omniscience inside the regular form of reading omens, so that devotees too may learn to read the small signs that warn of approaching trouble.
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ghorāṇi
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terrible
Dreadful. The omens are not subtle hints but heavy warnings. The Lord's mood is not panic but alert dispatch — He simply leaves, modeling the unhurried hurry of one who serves more than one place at once.
Kṛṣṇa actually went because Nārada had given information. He had gone to Indraprastha for the rājasūya sacrifice. That was now completed. Instead of atha sometimes ca is seen. On the way he saw omens.
He had been called to Indraprastha by a messenger, according to Mahābhārata (by Yudhiṣṭhira according to the prevent verse). According to Śukadeva he went by the advice of Uddhava, because of Nārada’s words. This was previously described. There are contrary statements later in the text also. These will be shown in the appropriate places. Yudhiṣṭhira was dedicated to dharma (dharma-sutena). Kṛṣṇa had been attracted by Yudhiṣṭhira’s calling. After going there, the sacrifice was comp leted and Śiśupāla had been killed. The goal in going there had been accomplished. He took permission to leave from elders like Bhīṣma and sages like Vyāsa as well was Kuntī and her sons. He saw omens on the way.
- What omens in my life have I been ignoring?
- What change of course would honor those signs?
The Rājasūya is finished, Śiśupāla is fallen, but Kṛṣṇa sees inauspicious omens and immediately turns toward Dvārakā — He takes leave of elders, sages, Pṛthā and her sons, and goes. A devotee, even in the joy of a completed yajña, keeps watching for the small signs of approaching duty and does not linger past the moment he is needed elsewhere.
Yudhiṣṭhira had invited Kṛṣṇa to the Rājasūya, where Śiśupāla was slain by the Sudarśana — the climax of Canto 10's seventy-fourth chapter. With the sacrifice complete, the kings hostile to Śiśupāla begin to stir, and Kṛṣṇa reads the omens before anyone else does.
The Lord does not linger in the afterglow of victory. He politely takes leave of Bhīṣma, Droṇa, the sages, of Kuntī and the Pāṇḍavas, and turns the chariot toward His own city — because protection of His Dvārakā svajana is part of the same līlā as the killing of Śiśupāla, only the next chapter of it.
My note
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