Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.25.9
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vidyudbhiḥ
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by bolts of lightning
From √vid (to know, shine). Lightning — sudden, terrifying, revealing. In the līlā it sets off Kṛṣṇa's dark form for the gopīs; here it is bent into a weapon. Same element, opposite use.
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stanayitnubhiḥ
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by thunder
From √stan (to roar, resound). The Vraja-poets use the same verb of the cow's affectionate lowing; Indra's clouds borrow the sound and weaponize it. The rasa-vocabulary itself is being attacked.
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jala - śarkarāḥ
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hailstones
jala (water) + śarkarā (gravel, sugar-crystal). Frozen rain hurled as stones. The same water that nourishes Vraja's grass and the gopīs' kuṅkuma-mixed bath becomes weapon — a small parable of any energy untethered from Kṛṣṇa.
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tīvraiḥ
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fearsome
From √tij — sharp, intense. The adjective accumulates with marut-gaṇa, vidyut, stanayitnu — the verse stacks intensifiers to mark this as no ordinary storm but a borrowed pralaya. Gauḍīya reading: the offender always over-reaches.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the word marud-gaṇaiḥ indicates the seven great winds, such as Āvaha, who presides over the region of Bhuvarloka, and Pravaha, who holds the planets in their places.
Indra released those clouds capable of creating an ocean in the universe at the time of destruction. Losing his discrimination because of anger, he released the clouds not considering the proper amount. The clouds began to rumble with thunder (stanayitnubhih), and they were moved (nunna) here and there by the avaha and pravaha winds (marudganaih). The clouds began to pour down pellets of hail (jala sarkara).
This verse shows the method of affliction. The clouds shone strongly (vi--dyotamānāḥ) with lightning. This indicates the frequency and terrifying nature of the lightning and thunder (stanayitnubhiḥ). The word tīvraiḥ (intense) modifies both the lightning and thunder. They showered water and hail.
The clouds whip with lightning and thunder and hail, like a master overseer driving slaves — but the slaves they drive are the very elements Kṛṣṇa speaks of in Bg 7.4 as His separated energies. Every bolt of lightning is the Lord's borrowed light, turned briefly against His own home.
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