Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.52.9
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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māgadhaḥ
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Jarāsandha (the king of Magadha)
Patronymic-by-territory. The Bhāgavatam often calls Jarāsandha simply 'māgadha' to flag him as the geopolitical face of asurika kingship — the eastern empire that will keep absorbing kings until Bhīma finally tears him apart.
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prahasan
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laughing loudly
Present participle of pra-√has. In Bhāgavata grammar, asurika laughter (Hiraṇyakaśipu, Rāvaṇa, Kaṁsa, here Jarāsandha) is almost always the prelude to comeuppance — it marks the gap between the laugher's estimate and reality.
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īśayoḥ
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of the two Lords
Genitive dual of īśa. Sūta deliberately names them 'the two Lords' in the same breath as their pursuer's laughter — the verse's irony is loaded into this single dual-form noun.
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apramāṇa-vit
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unaware of the scope
Compound: a (not) + pramāṇa (measure) + vit (knower). The asurika defect named precisely — Jarāsandha cannot scale Bhagavān. The Gītā (9.11) names the same failure: avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ.
Unaware of their greatness ( a pramana vit), he pursued them.
He could not understand the power of the Lords (apramāṇa-vit), that they could not be defeated by human strength. He ran after them but could not take the wealth. It is understood that Kṛṣṇa brought the wealth to Dvārakā. Hari-vaṁśa says: nivedayām āsa tato narādhipe tad ugrasene prati-pūrṇa-mānasaḥ / janārdano dvāravatīṁ ca tāṁ purīm aśobhayat tena dhanena bhūriṇā // He brought the wealth and offered it to Ugrasena. He made Dvārakā beautiful with the abundant treasures.
Jarāsandha was strong (bale) because he had twenty-three akṣauhiṇīs of troops, or because he had personal strength. He laughed loudly, or mocked them while saying, “What astonishing bravery of these warriors!” He pursued them with his chariot and armies or with armies who rode chariots, since they could not capture the two brothers by other means. He ran after them, but could not catch them. Thus they took the wealth to Dvārakā. Hari-vaṁśa says: nivedayām āsa tato narādhipe tad ugrasene prati-pūrṇa-mānasaḥ / janārdano dvāravatīṁ ca tāṁ purīm aśobhayat tena dhanena bhūriṇā // He brought the wealth and offered it to Ugrasena. He made Dvārakā beautiful with the abundant treasures.
Jarāsandha laughs the way a man laughs at the king's son in a borrowed cloak — apramāṇa-vit, unable to measure what stands before him. His laughter is the asura's signature: it is loudest just before the māyā lifts and the scale of Bhagavān becomes unmistakable.
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Source: vedabase.io