Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.54.26
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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smayan
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smiling
Present participle of √smi. The smile is Kṛṣṇa's most consistent expression in combat. Gauḍīya iconography never depicts Him grim in battle; even at Kurukṣetra He is described as smiling (prahasann iva, BG 2.10). Battle is part of His sport.
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chittvā
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breaking
Gerund of √chid. Kṛṣṇa breaks the bow, not the bearer. The verse-grammar embeds the mercy: He cuts what attacks, not who attacks. Compassion is built into the syntax.
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ṣaḍbhiḥ
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with six (arrows)
Six — the number of Bhagavān's opulences. Even the count of Kṛṣṇa's arrows witnesses to the bhāgavata-doctrine. Mathematical signs of grace.
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śayīthaḥ
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(you may) lie down
Aorist optative of √śī. Rukmī's threat — 'lie down dead.' Viśvanātha re-reads it as Kṛṣṇa's destiny — to lie down with Rukmiṇī on the wedding-bed. The same verb, two ends of the līlā.
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dārīkām
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the girl
Diminutive of dārā (wife). 'Little girl' — Rukmī's belittling of his own sister. Vyāsa preserves the word to register Rukmī's possessiveness mixed with contempt; Bhagavān will treat Rukmiṇī, by contrast, as the Goddess Ramā Herself (v. 60).
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī points out that in fact Lord Kṛṣṇa was meant to lie down together with Rukmiṇī on a beautiful bed of flowers, but out of shyness Rukmī did not directly mention this point.
"Before you lie on the battlefield, having been killed (me hatah) by my arrow, release the girl." The other meaning is:"Because you are not killed by my arrow ( me ahatah), do not release the girl." "Why do I need the girl?" "So you can lie down (sayithah) " He does not complete the sentence "with her on a bed of flowers." out of shyness.
As long as, having received my arrows, you do not lie down peacefully (showing the uselessness of his arrows), as long as Rukmiṇī is not peaceful, having her desires for you fulfilled, give up satisfying her and fight. (Before satisfying Rukmiṇī after receiving my arrows, fight with me.) Kṛṣṇa smiled, since taking either meaning, his words were unfit. Kṛṣṇa released six arrows to strike his head, two hands, two feet, and waist.
Before you are injured by my arrows and are made to lie down, free the girl. The other meaning is strike me, having come to lie down with being injured by my arrows. Or until, being injured by your arrows, I remove my pride, do not remain complacent. Do not free the girl. It is not proper to give up fighting. The word me modifies madam and manda in the previous verse. He criticizes himself because of his pride. Kṛṣṇa smiled. In either case he should not speak in this way. Kṛṣṇa released six arrows to strike his head, two hands, two feet, and waist.
Six arrows, one smile — Kṛṣṇa breaks the bow without breaking the man. Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī's gloss flips Rukmī's threat: it was Kṛṣṇa who was meant to lie down — on a flower-bed, with Rukmiṇī. Even the demon's curse is, when read by a Vaiṣṇava, accidentally a description of the līlā that follows.
My note
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