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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.36.13

తమాపతన్తం స నిగృహ్య శ‍ృఙ్గయో: పదా సమాక్రమ్య నిపాత్య భూతలే । నిష్పీడయామాస యథార్ద్రమమ్బరం కృత్వా విషాణేన జఘాన సోఽపతత్ ॥ ౧౩ ॥
tam āpatantaṁ sa nigṛhya śṛṅgayoḥ
[tam aapatantam sa nigrihya shringayoh]
padā samākramya nipātya bhū-tale
[padaa samaakramya nipaatya bhoo-tale]
niṣpīḍayām āsa yathārdram ambaraṁ
[nishpeedayaam aasa yathaardram ambaram]
kṛtvā viṣāṇena jaghāna so ’patat
[kritvaa vishaanena jaghaana so ’patat]
tam — him āpatantam — attacking saḥ — He nigṛhya — seizing śṛṅgayoḥ — by the horns padā — with His foot samākramya — treading nipātya — making him fall bhū - tale — onto the ground niṣpīḍayām āsa — He beat him yathā — like ardram — wet ambaram — a garment kṛtvā — making viṣāṇena — with his horn jaghāna — struck saḥ — he apatat — fell .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tam āpatantaṁ sa nigṛhya śṛṅgayoḥ
tam
him
āpatantam
attacking
saḥ
He
nigṛhya
seizing
śṛṅgayoḥ
by the horns
padā samākramya nipātya bhū-tale
padā
with His foot
samākramya
treading
nipātya
making him fall
bhū - tale
onto the ground
niṣpīḍayām āsa yathārdram ambaraṁ
niṣpīḍayām āsa
He beat him
yathā
like
ardram
wet
ambaram
a garment
kṛtvā viṣāṇena jaghāna so ’patat
kṛtvā
making
viṣāṇena
with his horn
jaghāna
struck
saḥ
he
apatat
fell .
  • nigṛhya — seizing
    Ni + √grah — to grasp firmly down. The intensified form of grahaṇa: the demon will not slip out.
  • niṣpīḍayām āsa — He squeezed (him) out
    From niṣ + √pīḍ — to press out, wring. The verb's domestic register (used of squeezing fruit, wringing cloth) is theologically pointed: cosmic destruction in the idiom of housework.
  • ardram — wet
    The famous wet-cloth simile. The body of the great bull — clouds hovering at its hump — is reduced linguistically to laundry. Vraja's poetics deflates demonic scale on contact.
  • viṣāṇena — with (the demon's own) horn
    Instrumental of viṣāṇa. The weapon the demon brought becomes the weapon by which he is finished — a recurring Bhāgavata pattern (Kaṁsa's wrestlers, Jarāsandha's army, Rāvaṇa's boons all turn against their owners).
As Ariṣṭa attacked, Lord Kṛṣṇa seized him by the horns and knocked him to the ground with His foot. The Lord then thrashed him as if he were a wet cloth, and finally He yanked out one of the demon’s horns and struck him with it until he lay prostrate.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
As Ariṣṭa attacked, Lord Kṛṣṇa seized him by the horns and knocked him to the ground with His foot. The Lord then thrashed him as if he were a wet cloth, and finally He yanked out one of the demon's horns and struck him with it until he lay prostrate.
Commentary

Grasping his two horns in his hands, Krsna twisted him around like a piece of wet cloth. Uprooting his left horn, Krsna dealt him a blow with that horn.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Two verses describe with joy the killing the demon. Kṛtvā means he uprooted his horn. Viṣṇu Purāṇa describes this. Utpāṭya śṛṅgam ekaṁ ca tena vā tāḍayat tathā: he uprooted one horn and beat the demon with it. Hari-vaṁśa says śṛṅgaṁ cāsya punaḥ savyam utpāṭya yama-daṇḍavat tenaiva prāharat vaktraṁ sa mamāra vṛṣo hataḥ: he uprooted his left horn and beat his head with it as if it were Yamarāja’s staff and the beaten bull then died. Apatat means he died.

Concepts
Jiva

He throws the demon down and wrings him out like a wet cloth. The verb is from laundry, not warfare. Kṛṣṇa fights demons the way a washerman wrings a sheet — without strain, without anger, with the rhythm of ordinary work.

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