Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.30.21
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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duṣṭa-ahe
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O wicked snake
Compound vocative: duṣṭa (wicked) + ahi (snake). The very word Kṛṣṇa used to Kāliya. The gopī is reciting Kṛṣṇa's lines verbatim — her body is the stage, His script is the play.
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daṇḍa-kṛt
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the imposer of punishment
Compound: daṇḍa (rod, punishment) + kṛt (doer). Coupled in this verse with khalānām ('on the envious'). Kṛṣṇa's avatāra-purpose paraphrased: paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām (BG 4.8). The gopī claims His mission in the first person — the highest blasphemy if not for love.
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ākramya-śirasi
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treading upon the head
Phrase: ākramya (treading upon, absolutive of ā-√kram) + śirasi (locative of śiras, on the head). The exact verb-noun combination Bhāgavatam uses for Kṛṣṇa stepping on Kāliya's hoods. The gopī's body is performing Bhāgavata Sanskrit.
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nṛpa
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O King
Vocative — Śukadeva addressing Parīkṣit. The narrator surfaces here to remind us that this whole scene is being told to a dying king as the highest possible last-hearing. The frame matters: rāsa-līlā is the supreme text for the threshold of death.
Here the gopīs enact Kṛṣṇa’s chastisement of Kāliya.
"Dusta he" here indicates Kaliya.
Using her feet, putting them on the head of another gopī, she spoke. Nanu indicates certainty or calling out. Sometimes the word nṛpa is inserted. This indicates astonishment. Duṣṭāhe means “O wicked snake!” Leave this place or else I will punish you. Nanu means certainly. Though in the actual pastime Kṛṣṇa did not say this, the gopī said this as a conclusion or to explain the meaning of the pastime.
Nanu indicates certainty. One version has nrpa (O king)! This expresses astonishment. O Kāliya (duṣṭāhe)! Go from. Otherwise I will punish you. Using her feet, putting them on the head of another gopī, she spoke. Nanu indicates certainty or calling out. Sometimes the word nṛpa is inserted. This indicates astonishment. Duṣṭāhe means “O wicked snake!” Leave this place or else I will punish you. Nanu means certainly. Though in the actual pastime Kṛṣṇa did not say this, the gopī said this as a conclusion or to explain the meaning of the pastime.
When the great hero of a village kills the snake that menaced the well, every child for a year afterward dances on a coiled rope shouting 'wicked snake, away!' One gopī climbs another, plants her foot on her head, and announces her birth-purpose as Kāliya-tamer — Vraja's storytelling lives inside the bodies of its girls.
The thousand-hooded serpent Kāliya had poisoned a long reach of the Yamunā; the cows that drank fell dead. Kṛṣṇa leapt into the river, was coiled, broke free, and danced on Kāliya's hoods until the serpent submitted (SB 10.16). Kāliya's wives begged for mercy; Kṛṣṇa banished him from Yamunā but spared him.
Gauḍīyas read Kāliya-damana as the prototype of all Kṛṣṇa-conquests of envy in the heart. The gopī here plays both the dancer and the dance — and her line 'I have taken birth to punish the envious' is Kṛṣṇa's own mission-statement repurposed.
My note
Source: vedabase.io