Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.79.22
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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bhāram
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the burden
Accusative of bhāra, 'weight, load.' The Bhāgavatam's standing word for the press of adharmic kings on the earth — bhū-bhāra. The Kṛṣṇa-avatāra has bhū-bhāra-haraṇa as one of its declared purposes; this verse names the moment that work is recognized as complete.
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hṛtam
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removed
Past participle of √hṛ, 'to take away.' The same root that gives Hari, 'He who removes [sin, sorrow, the load of the world].' Balarāma seeing the bhāra hṛtam is the Lord's brother registering that Hari has just done what He came to do.
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kuru-pāṇḍava-saṁyuge
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in the battle between the Kurus and Pāṇḍavas
Compound: Kuru + Pāṇḍava + sam + yoga (joining), locative — 'in the conjunction of the two armies.' The Bhāgavatam names the war flatly. Balarāma had refused to take a side in it (background to this chapter); His pilgrimage was the form His neutrality took.
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mene
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He thought
Perfect of √man. The verb is reflective — Balarāma weighs the news inwardly. The Lord's interior judgment is being narrated; we see how Bhagavān's mind processes mahābhārata-scale events: as accounting, not as grief.
At Prabhāsa he heard that all the kings had been destroyed from the local brāhmaṇas or from brāhmaṇas who had come on pilgrimage there. He considered that the earth had now been relieved of her burden by Kṛṣṇa.
- Where might the Lord's plan be unfolding in my life even while I am off doing something else?
- How does this loosen my sense of needing to be where things are happening?
Two brāhmaṇas tell Balarāma the news at Prabhāsa: every king who marched at Kurukṣetra has been killed. He hears it not as tragedy but as accounting — the Mother Earth had complained of her burden in Canto 1, and now the ledger is settled. The same Earth who once approached Brahmā as a cow appearing to weep with the weight of asuric kings now stands lighter by an entire war.
In Bhāgavatam Canto 1.16–17 and again at the opening of Canto 10, Bhūmi-Devī in the form of a cow appears before Brahmā and the demigods to complain that adharmic kings have crushed her with their armies. The whole Kṛṣṇa-avatāra is, at the macro level, the divine answer to that complaint.
When verse 22 says bhāram mene hṛtam bhuvaḥ — 'He thought the burden of the earth was removed' — the Bhāgavatam is closing a loop opened thousands of verses earlier. Balarāma reads the news as completion: the work for which His brother descended is, on this register, done.
My note
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