Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.50.1
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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mahiṣyau
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the two queens
Dual number: Asti and Prāpti, the political wives Kaṁsa took from Magadha. Their widowhood is the karmic seed that draws Jarāsandha's seventeen sieges down upon Mathurā — Kaṁsa's adharmic alliances continuing to bear fruit even after his death.
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duḥkha
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with unhappiness
The misery of those whose shelter was a demon — Kaṁsa offered them queenship but no real refuge. Gauḍīyas read this as the standing condition of anyone whose āśraya is not Kṛṣṇa: the support collapses and only duḥkha remains.
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bhartari
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their husband (when he was killed)
Locative absolute: 'their husband having been killed.' The verse opens the chapter not with Kṛṣṇa but with the wake of Kaṁsa's death — līlā continues to ripple outward from Mathurā into Magadha.
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bharata-ṛṣabha
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O hero of the Bhāratas
Śuka addresses Parīkṣit directly. The frame is preserved: a dying king (Parīkṣit) hearing about the kings of long ago, all of it leading back to Kṛṣṇa's saving līlā.
I offer my respects to my guru. May I use my intelligence to explain the second half of the tenth canto as I did the first part. In the fiftieth chapter, though the supreme lord defeats Jarasandha, he takes his people to Dvaraka out of fear of fight with Jarasandha the eighteenth time.
O Lord Caitanya, please deliver me fallen in the great ocean and am suffering quickly, since I have surrendered to you. Though the Lord should have gone to console Gokula and the Pāṇḍavas, Śukadeva begins to describe great battles and other topics in the middle, since these events were part of the Lord’s human pastimes. O best of the Bhāratas, Parīkṣit, you know the nature of kṣatriya women. Sometimes the word sva is seen instead of sma. This indicates that in great distress and pain, they went to their father’s house since they no longer had attachment to their husband’s house.
O Lord Caitanya, please deliver me fallen in the great ocean and am suffering quickly, since I have surrendered to you. Though the Lord should have gone to console Kuntī and her sons in order to make his own words “I will come” true, out of affection for his devotees, in making the journey there was a great battle which obstructed this. That is now described. O hero of Bharata’s lineage! You know the nature of wives of wicked kṣatriyas. The two queens were agitated by grief on the death of Kaṁsa and did not consider the words of their husband. They left their husband’s house and went to the houses of their father in great confusion.
When Kaṁsa fell, Asti and Prāpti carried their grief like two streams running back to the source — into the lap of Jarāsandha. Worldly union, untethered from Kṛṣṇa, ends always in this return to the parental fire that will now blaze toward Mathurā.
My note
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