Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.44.8
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vajra
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thunderbolt
Indra's weapon — adamantine, irresistible. The wrestlers' limbs are likened to it; in just a few verses (20), this same word vajra returns to describe Kṛṣṇa's blows. The hardness changes sides.
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śaila - indra
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king of mountains
Compound: śaila (mountain) + indra (chief). The wrestlers are mountain-like; but in Vraja the boy who is now in the arena once held a real mountain (Govardhana) on His finger. The women do not yet know this.
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su - kumāra
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very tender
Compound: su (very) + kumāra (boy, tender one). The same vātsalya-vocabulary that fills Yaśodā's Vraja-songs: the women see Him as Yaśodā does — too young for this fight. Their śoka is vātsalya-anugata.
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kiśorau
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the two adolescents
Dual of kiśora. The technical term for the early-adolescent age of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma at this stage of the līlā. In Rūpa Gosvāmī's analysis, kiśora-vayas is precisely the age at which mādhurya-rasa awakens — and at which He kills Kaṁsa.
The women speak, pointing with their fingers as they describe the soft bodies of Krsna and Balarama.
The wrestlers are extremely murderous, and wicked. The boys will be killed and following dharma. Instead of sannibhau, sometimes sammilau is seen.
The wrestlers were like Meru, Himalayas or Vindhya mountains in shape and rough qualities. The repetition of the word kva indicates contrast. Being like great mountains was opposite of the boys of kaiśora age. “But one only reaches kaiśora period at fifteen years.” They were called kaiśora because they had not attained yauvana. The word śrī indicates they were not too big and very beautiful. Kva yauvanonmukhībhūta-sukmāra-tanur hariḥ Kva vajra-kaṭhinābhogī śarīro ‘yaṁ mahāsuraḥ Kṛṣna has a tender body, and is approaching yauvana period. This big demon is hard as a thunderbolt and well nourished. Viṣṇu Purāṇa
Two mountains on one side, two tender saplings on the other. The comparison is grotesque — and yet the eye is irresistibly pulled to the saplings. So the gopīs are pulled to Kṛṣṇa; so the world is pulled to whatever it should be protecting.
My note
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