Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.89.48-49
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śaibya-sugrīva-meghapuṣpa-balāhakāḥ
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Śaibya, Sugrīva, Meghapuṣpa, Balāhaka
Compound listing Kṛṣṇa's four chariot-horses. The Bhāgavatam names them precisely because the loss of way must be attributed to specific named horses, not to a vague 'the team got lost.' Even these celebrated steeds need Sudarśana to lead.
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bhraṣṭa-gatayaḥ
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having lost their way
Compound: bhraṣṭa (fallen, lost) + gati (movement, path). The horses' gati is interrupted. Gauḍīyas read the line as a warning: even the highest natural means fail in regions only Bhagavān's śakti reaches.
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mahā-yoga-īśvara-īśvaraḥ
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supreme master of all masters of yoga
Compound: mahā (great) + yoga-īśvara (master of yoga) + īśvara (master). Kṛṣṇa is yogeśvareśvara — the lord of all who are themselves yoga-lords. The phrase is repeated from BG 18.78. He is not one yogi among many.
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sahasra-āditya-saṅkāśam
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resembling a thousand suns
Compound: sahasra (thousand) + āditya (sun) + saṅkāśa (similar to). The Sudarśana's brilliance — the same image used for the viśva-rūpa in BG 11.12. The cakra is theophanic light, not mere weapon.
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sva-cakram
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His own disc
Compound: sva (own) + cakra. Kṛṣṇa sends His own cakra — Sudarśana — as forerunner. Gauḍīyas read Sudarśana as Bhagavān's intimate śakti, dispatched whenever His devotees need to cross what cannot be crossed.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī gives the following insight into this verse. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s horses had descended from Vaikuṇṭha to participate in His earthly pastimes. Since the Lord Himself was pretending to be a finite human being, His steeds now acted confused to enhance the drama of the situation for all who would one day hear this pastime.
Śukadeva calls out in amazement to Parīkṣit, “O best of Bharata’s lineage!” The Lord had arranged the horses to act in this way (bhagavān). Seeing this, he sent his cakra weapon in front, not his effulgence. This illuminated the path.
These horses were famous for being able to go anywhere. They even crossed the place of liberation full of light, described later. Their progress was stopped by the great darkness. Śukadeva calls out in astonishment O, best of the Bharatas! Or though the horeses were made of eternity, knowledge and bliss, beyond prakṛti, they stumbled on encountering the darkness as a special pastime of the Lord for his devotee. You understand this, being the best of a great dynasty. Seeing the horses in that condition, the Lord who is directly Nārāyaṇa, who attracts all hearts by revealing his unlimited powers, the lord of lords who have special powers (mahāyoga), threw his exrtraordinary (sva) cakra which shone like a thousand suns or sent it off on his order (prāhinot).
- Where am I trying to navigate by natural means alone past their limits?
- What divine instrument am I refusing to release into my situation?
The four horses — Śaibya, Sugrīva, Meghapuṣpa, Balāhaka — lose their way in the dark. Even the Lord's own horses cannot navigate this region by sight. Kṛṣṇa sends His Sudarśana ahead — a disc shining like a thousand suns. The cakra becomes the headlight; the chariot follows light, not road.
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Source: vedabase.io