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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.25.9

విద్యోతమానా విద్యుద్భ‍ి: స్తనన్త: స్తనయిత్నుభి: । తీవ్రైర్మరుద్గణైర్నున్నా వవృషుర్జలశర్కరా: ॥ ౯ ॥
vidyotamānā vidyudbhiḥ
[vidyotamaanaa vidyudbhih]
stanantaḥ stanayitnubhiḥ
[stanantah stanayitnubhih]
tīvrair marud-gaṇair nunnā
[teevrair marud-ganair nunnaa]
vavṛṣur jala-śarkarāḥ
[vavrishur jala-sharkaraah]
vidyotamānāḥ — being illuminated vidyudbhiḥ — by bolts of lightning stanantaḥ — roaring stanayitnubhiḥ — with thunder tīvraiḥ — fearsome marut - gaṇaiḥ — by the wind-gods nunnāḥ — propelled vavṛṣuḥ — they poured down jala - śarkarāḥ — hailstones .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
vidyotamānā vidyudbhiḥ
vidyotamānāḥ
being illuminated
vidyudbhiḥ
by bolts of lightning
stanantaḥ stanayitnubhiḥ
stanantaḥ
roaring
stanayitnubhiḥ
with thunder
tīvrair marud-gaṇair nunnā
tīvraiḥ
fearsome
marut - gaṇaiḥ
by the wind-gods
nunnāḥ
propelled
vavṛṣur jala-śarkarāḥ
vavṛṣuḥ
they poured down
jala - śarkarāḥ
hailstones .
  • vidyudbhiḥ — 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.
  • stanayitnubhiḥ — 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.
  • jala - śarkarāḥ — 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.
  • tīvraiḥ — 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.
Propelled by the fearsome wind-gods, the clouds blazed with lightning bolts and roared with thunder as they hurled down hailstones.

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.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Propelled by the fearsome wind-gods, the clouds blazed with lightning bolts and roared with thunder as they hurled down hailstones.
Commentary

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).

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

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.

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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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