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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.46.25

తాలత్రయం మహాసారం ధనుర్యష్టిమివేభరాట్ । బభఞ్జైకేన హస్తేన సప్తాహమదధాద్ గిరిమ్ ॥ ౨౫ ॥
tāla-trayaṁ mahā-sāraṁ
[taala-trayam mahaa-saaram]
dhanur yaṣṭim ivebha-rāṭ
[dhanur yashtim ivebha-raat]
babhañjaikena hastena
[babhanjaikena hastena]
saptāham adadhād girim
[saptaaham adadhaad girim]
tāla - trayam — as long as three palm trees mahā - sāram — extremely solid dhanuḥ — the bow yaṣṭim — a stick iva — as ibha - rāṭ — a royal elephant babhañja — He broke ekena — with one hastena — hand sapta - aham — for seven days adadhāt — held girim — a mountain .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tāla-trayaṁ mahā-sāraṁ
tāla - trayam
as long as three palm trees
mahā - sāram
extremely solid
dhanur yaṣṭim ivebha-rāṭ
dhanuḥ
the bow
yaṣṭim
a stick
iva
as
ibha - rāṭ
a royal elephant
babhañjaikena hastena
babhañja
He broke
ekena
with one
hastena
hand
saptāham adadhād girim
sapta - aham
for seven days
adadhāt
held
girim
a mountain .
  • tāla - trayam — as long as three palm trees
    Compound: tāla (palm tree) + trayam (three). The bow of Kaṁsa (SB 10.42), broken before the wrestling. The measure is given in tāla — palm-tree-height — because Vraja measures in trees, not in cubits.
  • ibha - rāṭ — a royal elephant
    Compound: ibha (elephant) + rāṭ (king). The simile pairs with verse 24's mṛga-adhipa: lion-king in 24, elephant-king in 25. Vraja's metaphor-bank is animal, not architectural.
  • babhañja — He broke
    Perfect of √bhañj. Same verb used of the snapping of any twig — the Bhāgavatam keeps the lexicon of effort minimal to dramatize the absence of effort.
  • sapta - aham — for seven days
    Compound: sapta (seven) + ahan (day). The Govardhana-līlā's duration (SB 10.25). Gauḍīya tradition reads sapta-aham as the cosmological seven — the duration of a Brahmā's night, the seven prakṛtis — held up on a child's smallest finger.
  • ekena-hastena — with one hand
    Instrumental of eka (one) + hasta (hand). The single-finger detail of Govardhana — vāmena kara-pallavena (10.25) — is here softened to ekena hastena. The miracle is preserved, the cowherd-tongue's modesty intact.
  • girim — a mountain
    Accusative of giri — Govardhana, but unnamed. Verse 18 already named girim; here it returns. Gauḍīyas mark the repetition: the hill that the canto's earlier chapter celebrates as Hari Himself (10.24.35) is here recited by Nanda as a feat-of-the-son.
With the ease of a royal elephant breaking a stick, Kṛṣṇa broke a powerful, giant bow three tālas long. He also held a mountain aloft for seven days with just one hand.

According to Ācārya Viśvanātha, a tāla (“palm tree”) is a measurement of about sixty hastas, or ninety feet. Thus the great bow Kṛṣṇa broke was two hundred seventy feet long.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
With the ease of a royal elephant breaking a stick, Kṛṣṇa broke a powerful, giant bow three tālas long. He also held a mountain aloft for seven days with just one hand.
Commentary

"He broke a bow measuring three tala trees or 60 x 3 hastas. With one hand, his left hand, he held up the mountain for seven days."

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Tāla means a tāla tree which is 60 hastas high. Or, Devakoṣa says that a tāla is nine vitasthis (9 inches x 9). He broke the bow like an elephant breaks a stick of sugar cane. He lifted the mountain with his left hand for seven days.

Concepts
Jiva

Bows snapped like sticks, mountains held seven days on one hand — Nanda recites these and his demigod-theory (verse 23) wavers. Vātsalya cannot reconcile a deva of any rank with the ease of these acts, so the chapter is setting up Uddhava's correction (verses 31-43) without forcing Nanda to receive it yet.

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