Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.44.4
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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paribhrāmaṇa
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dragging in circles
Compound: pari (around) + bhrāmaṇa (whirling). The samsaric verb — the same whirling that the jīva undergoes in birth-and-death. Cāṇūra spins the Lord; the Lord spins the world (cf. BG 18.61, bhrāmayan).
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avapātanaiḥ
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by throwings-down
From ava + √pat (to fall down). The wrestler tries to bring the Lord down; the Bhāgavatam reader knows He cannot be brought down. The verb only describes what is attempted, not what occurs.
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utsarpaṇa
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running in front
From ut + √sṛp (to creep, glide). The wrestler darts ahead to cut off the path. Cf. 36 where Kaṁsa darts side to side; the demoniac body has no still center — only motion.
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pratyarundhatām
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they obstructed each other
Dual imperfect of prati + √rudh. To check, to block. The whole arena is a study in obstruction — but the Lord has come precisely to remove an obstruction (the imprisonment of Devakī and Vasudeva).
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the word parirambha indicates crushing one’s opponent with one’s arms.
Holding the opponent’s hands or other limbs, each would drag the opponent here and there (paribhramanam). They would push each other away, and squeeze the opponent in their two arms. They would throw each other on the ground, jump towards each other, pursue the opponent. In this way they would counter each other’s moves.
Utsarpaṇāpasarpaṇaiḥ means “by approaching from the front and back.” The aorist tense is used in the verb pratyarundhatām. The addition of the letter n is poetic license. Each tried to stop the other.
Circling, hurling, running before and behind — the wrestler's choreography is a frantic search for an angle of attack. Cāṇūra is doing what the conditioned soul does with Bhagavān: trying every position, every approach, except the one position (surrender) that would actually meet Him.
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