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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.37.32

తం నిగృహ్యాచ్యుతో దోర్భ్యాం పాతయిత్వా మహీతలే । పశ్యతాం దివి దేవానాం పశుమారమమారయత్ ॥ ౩౨ ॥
taṁ nigṛhyācyuto dorbhyāṁ
[tam nigrihyaachyuto dorbhyaam]
pātayitvā mahī-tale
[paatayitvaa mahee-tale]
paśyatāṁ divi devānāṁ
[pashyataam divi devaanaam]
paśu-māram amārayat
[pashu-maaram amaarayat]
tam — him nigṛhya — holding fast acyutaḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa dorbhyām — with His arms pātayitvā — making him fall mahī - tale — onto the ground paśyatām — while they were watching divi — in the heavenly planets devānām — the demigods paśu - māram — as a sacrificial animal is slaughtered amārayat — He killed him .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
taṁ nigṛhyācyuto dorbhyāṁ
tam
him
nigṛhya
holding fast
acyutaḥ
Lord Kṛṣṇa
dorbhyām
with His arms
pātayitvā mahī-tale
pātayitvā
making him fall
mahī - tale
onto the ground
paśyatāṁ divi devānāṁ
paśyatām
while they were watching
divi
in the heavenly planets
devānām
the demigods
paśu-māram amārayat
paśu - māram
as a sacrificial animal is slaughtered
amārayat
He killed him .
  • acyutaḥ — Kṛṣṇa, the infallible one
    A-cyuta — never fallen, never deviating. Gauḍīyas read Acyuta as the title of unshakeable promise-keeping: the Lord who said He would deliver the boys (verse 30, śaraṇa-daḥ satām) is acyuta — He does not fail to deliver. The name and the deed match.
  • paśu-māram — in the manner of slaughtering a sacrificial animal
    Paśu (animal) + māra (killing). The demon dies the death of a sacrificial victim — his end becomes a yajña. Gauḍīyas read this as a recurring Bhāgavatam pattern: when the Lord kills an asura, the killing itself is offered as sacrifice, and the asura is incidentally liberated.
  • divi — while the demigods looked on from heaven
    Divi (in heaven) + deva (god) + paśyat (watching). The whole upper world watches. Gauḍīyas note that demigod-witnessing is the līlā's standard audience — the deeds of Vraja are seen by the heavens even when Vraja itself does not look up.
Lord Acyuta clutched Vyomāsura between His arms and threw him to the ground. Then, while the demigods in heaven looked on, Kṛṣṇa killed him in the same way that one kills a sacrificial animal.

The ācāryas inform us that sacrificial animals were killed by means of strangulation.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Lord Acyuta clutched Vyomāsura between His arms and threw him to the ground. Then, while the demigods in heaven looked on, Kṛṣṇa killed him in the same way that one kills a sacrificial animal.
Commentary

He strangled Vyomasura just as one strangles a sacrificial animal, just as Vyomasura had tried to kill the cowherd boys by suffocating them in the cave by blocking the opening.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

The devatās looked on in joy. The locative case is meant instead of the genitive. They were in the sky, for even then they were hiding out of fear of the demon. He killed the demon like a sacrificial animal by blocking his breath (paśu-māram amārayat). Such a meaning is according to upamāne karmaṇi. (Pāṇini 3.4.45) This was very suitable. In that game for punishing the thief they would imitate suffocating him for a moment, and he had also almost suffocated the cowherd boys in the cave. Kṛṣṇa did not stop performing such pastimes (acyutaḥ).

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Acyuta — He who never falls — clutches Vyoma in His arms, throws him to the ground, and kills him paśu-vat, the way a sacrificial animal is dispatched. The demigods watch from above. The kill is precise, ritual, unhurried.

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