Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.25.15
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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apa - ṛtu
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out of season
apa (away from) + ṛtu (season). The marker that this is not nature but transgression. Ṛtu in Vedic order is dharmic; apa-ṛtu is adharma. Kṛṣṇa's diagnosis identifies the storm as ontologically misplaced.
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asmābhiḥ
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by Ourselves
Instrumental plural — the royal 'We.' Kṛṣṇa accepts authorship of stopping Indra's yajña (chapter 24); the līlā unfolds from that acknowledged act. Gauḍīyas note: He never disowns His provocations, because each is medicine for someone's pride.
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nāśāya
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for destruction
Dative of nāśa (destruction). Indra's intent is destruction — Kṛṣṇa speaks Indra's purpose without softening it. The rasa-grammar of the verse is calm clarity; the cowherd boy speaks like a king who has already decided.
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varṣati
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is raining
Present indicative of √vṛṣ. Indra, whose name as Parjanya is the rain itself, is now described by the very verb he embodies — and bent against Vraja. The grammar shows the offender consumed by his own function.
Understanding that it was Indra’s work, Krsna spoke to them in five verses. The excessive hail (silamayam) was unseasonal, belonging to a season already passed.
Kṛṣṇa then thinks to himself in great anger in five verses. The verses will be explained separately. Varṣam varṣati (he rained rained) is like tapas tapati. The plural indicates that Nanda and others as well as Kṛṣṇa stopped the sacrifice or it can indicate a show of boldness in Kṛṣṇa in order to break Indra’s pride. Indra pours down rain to destroy Gokula. However he pours rain actually to destroy his own pride.
Kṛṣṇa names the cause out loud, as a physician names the disease before treating it. 'This is Indra's work — out-of-season, fierce, full of stones.' Naming is half the cure: it strips the storm of its disguise as nature and reveals it as an offended ego's tantrum.
My note
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