Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.44.36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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tārkṣya - sutaḥ
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son of Tārkṣya (Garuḍa)
Compound: tārkṣya (the sage / Garuḍa's father) + suta (son). Garuḍa — Viṣṇu's eternal carrier. The verse invokes him to describe Kṛṣṇa's seizure: Kṛṣṇa moves like His own mount, the Lord borrows the gesture of His own servant.
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uragam
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a serpent
From ura (chest) + ga (going) — 'chest-goer', one who moves on the chest. The classical Sanskrit word for snake. Kaṁsa, in the verse's typology, is the chest-goer; Kṛṣṇa is the sky-goer.
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durviṣaha - ugra - tejāḥ
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of intolerable, fierce splendor
Compound: durviṣaha (unbearable) + ugra (fierce) + tejas (radiance). Three intensifiers stacked. The Bhāgavatam underlines that what Kaṁsa faces is not a wrestler but Bhagavān's tejas — the demon would not survive even staring.
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samagrahīt
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He seized completely
Imperfect of sam + √grah. The total grasp. Cf. SB 10.6 (Pūtanā's seizure) and SB 10.4 (Kaṁsa seizing the infant Devakī's daughter). The chapter is closing the loop: the seizer is finally seized.
Kaṁsa moved about quickly in various ways (vi—carantam), circling around, to the left and right with great skill, like a hawk in the sky. This indicates that he was hard to catch. But Kṛṣṇa seized him with great strength (prasahya) since he was endowed with great, intolerable ferocity (durviṣahogra-tejā), just as Garuḍa attacks intolerably ferocious snakes. The example shows that many intolerably ferocious snakes can be easily caught since their power is ordinary compared to Kṛṣṇa’s.
Kaṁsa darts side to side like a hawk in the sky; Kṛṣṇa seizes him as Garuḍa seizes a snake. The bird-of-prey simile that the Bhāgavatam gave Cāṇūra (verse 21) is now applied to Kaṁsa — and immediately swallowed by the bigger bird. The hawk meets Garuḍa.
Garuḍa is Viṣṇu's mount and the eternal enemy of serpents — in the Mahābhārata's Ādi-parva, his birth-song is the song of snakes scattering. Wherever Garuḍa lands, the snake-tribes flee or are eaten.
The Bhāgavatam invokes Garuḍa here as the natural figure for Kṛṣṇa's seizure of Kaṁsa. The demon is named a snake-equivalent; the Lord is named tārkṣya-sutaḥ (Garuḍa). Gauḍīyas note: this is not random simile — the verse is identifying Kaṁsa typologically with the sarpa-class of obstacles, the residual ahaṅkāra that bhakti must finally devour.
My note
Source: vedabase.io