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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.37.7

సమేధమానేన స కృష్ణబాహునా నిరుద్ధవాయుశ్చరణాంశ్చ విక్షిపన్ । ప్రస్విన్నగాత్ర: పరివృత్తలోచన: పపాత లణ్డం విసృజన్ క్షితౌ వ్యసు: ॥ ౭ ॥
samedhamānena sa kṛṣṇa-bāhunā
[samedhamaanena sa krishna-baahunaa]
niruddha-vāyuś caraṇāṁś ca vikṣipan
[niruddha-vaayush charanaamsh cha vikshipan]
prasvinna-gātraḥ parivṛtta-locanaḥ
[prasvinna-gaatrah parivritta-lochanah]
papāta laṇḍaṁ visṛjan kṣitau vyasuḥ
[papaata landam visrijan kshitau vyasuh]
Word-for-word
samedhamānena — expanding saḥ — he kṛṣṇa - bāhunā — by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s arm niruddha — stopped vāyuḥ — his breathing caraṇān — his legs ca — and vikṣipan — throwing about prasvinna — perspiring gātraḥ — his body parivṛtta — rolling locanaḥ — his eyes papāta — he fell down laṇḍam — feces visṛjan — excreting kṣitau — onto the ground vyasuḥ — lifeless .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
samedhamānena sa kṛṣṇa-bāhunā
samedhamānena
expanding
saḥ
he
kṛṣṇa - bāhunā
by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s arm
niruddha-vāyuś caraṇāṁś ca vikṣipan
niruddha
stopped
vāyuḥ
his breathing
caraṇān
his legs
ca
and
vikṣipan
throwing about
prasvinna-gātraḥ parivṛtta-locanaḥ
prasvinna
perspiring
gātraḥ
his body
parivṛtta
rolling
locanaḥ
his eyes
papāta laṇḍaṁ visṛjan kṣitau vyasuḥ
papāta
he fell down
laṇḍam
feces
visṛjan
excreting
kṣitau
onto the ground
vyasuḥ
lifeless .
Important Words
  • kṛṣṇa-bāhunā — by Kṛṣṇa's arm
    The agent is named: not 'a weapon', not 'a discus' — Kṛṣṇa's own arm. The intimacy of the killing matters. In Vraja Kṛṣṇa kills with the same hand that holds the flute.
  • niruddha — obstructed, stopped
    Ni-rudh — to block. Prāṇa is sealed inside the demon. Gauḍīyas note: when the Lord obstructs an asura's prāṇa, He is also freeing whatever jīva was trapped behind that demonic role.
  • vyasuḥ — lifeless, with vital airs gone
    Vi-asu — having one's prāṇas departed. A clinical word for death. The demon's exit is named plainly; no eulogy.
As Lord Kṛṣṇa’s expanding arm completely blocked Keśī’s breathing, his legs kicked convulsively, his body became covered with sweat, and his eyes rolled around. The demon then passed stool and fell on the ground, dead.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
As Lord Kṛṣṇa's expanding arm completely blocked Keśī's breathing, his legs kicked convulsively, his body became covered with sweat, and his eyes rolled around. The demon then passed stool and fell on the ground, dead.
Commentary

Expelling stool (landam), Kesi expired.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

By Kṛṣṇa’s arm which completely expanded (sam—edhamānena) Keśī’s’ breathing was blocked. He expanded his arm till Keśī’s body burst. By that, the demon died. Nārada says in Hari-vaṁśa: yat tvayā pāṭitaṁ dehaṁ bhujenānata-parvaṇā eśo ‘sya mṛtyur ahnāya vihito viśva-yoniṇā When your arm extending to your knee made his body fall, he quickly died by the creator’s will.

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Breath cut off, legs kicking, eyes rolling, the demon voids himself and dies — an undignified end for a horse who had terrified the sky. The Bhāgavatam refuses to romanticize Keśī's exit; the asura's grandeur was always a sound effect.

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