Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.12.14
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kaṁsa-anuśiṣṭaḥ
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instructed by Kaṁsa
Compound: Kaṁsa (the demoniac king) + anuśiṣṭa (instructed). The Vraja-līlā has a political subplot — Kaṁsa is the cause of every demon attack. Gauḍīyas note: Kaṁsa's enmity functions as inverted bhakti (vairānubandha); he attains liberation by death at Kṛṣṇa's hands.
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bakī-baka-anujaḥ
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younger brother of Pūtanā and Baka
Compound: bakī (the female demon, i.e. Pūtanā) + baka (the heron demon) + anuja (younger brother). The three asuras are siblings — Pūtanā 10.6, Bakāsura 10.11, Aghāsura 10.12. Vraja-līlā has a family of demons being progressively absorbed.
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sodara-nāśa-kṛt
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killer of my siblings
Compound: sodara (uterine sibling) + nāśa (destruction) + kṛt (doer). Demoniac logic: my family is killed, therefore the killer must be killed. The very logic that brings him to Kṛṣṇa is what consumes him.
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haniṣye
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I shall kill
Future of han- (to strike, kill). The same root as in Bhagavad-gītā 2.19's na hanti na hanyate — 'one neither kills nor is killed.' Aghāsura's intent to kill the Unkillable becomes the comedy of the chapter.
Because they killed my brother and sister, I will kill them. Instead of mama sometimes atha is seen. The version with mama is accepted by all including Citsukha. Using atha avoids repeating the word “my” twice (me and mama). Kṛṣṇa was the killer of my brother and sister, of those two. Therefore I will kill him. Or, Kṛṣṇa was the killer of my brother and sister. To show enmity on their behalf (tayoḥ dvayoḥ) I will kill him.
Picture a younger brother sworn to avenge two older siblings already killed in battle — except the 'older siblings' are the witch Pūtanā and the heron Bakāsura, and the boy he means to kill is the Supreme Person Himself. Vendetta misunderstood as strategy: Aghāsura thinks he is the third arrow; he is actually the third gift.
Pūtanā came to murder the infant Kṛṣṇa by poisoning her own breasts (SB 10.6). Yet because she had put on a mother's form and offered her breast — even with murderous intent — Kṛṣṇa accepted her as a nursemaid and gave her a position in His eternal līlā (SB 10.6.35).
Gauḍīyas read this as the principle that operates again here for Agha: contact with Kṛṣṇa, even hostile contact, purifies. Aghāsura comes to kill his sister's killer, and ends as the Lord's associate in verse 38.
My note
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