Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.55.13
ఏష త్వానిర్దశం సిన్ధావక్షిపచ్ఛమ్బరోఽసుర: ।
మత్స్యోఽగ్రసీత్తదుదరాదిత: ప్రాప్తో భవాన్ ప్రభో ॥ ౧౩ ॥
eṣa tvānirdaśaṁ sindhāv
[esha tvaanirdasham sindhaav]
akṣipac chambaro ’suraḥ
[akshipach chambaro ’surah]
matsyo ’grasīt tad-udarād
[matsyo ’graseet tad-udaraad]
itaḥ prāpto bhavān prabho
[itah praapto bhavaan prabho]
Word-for-word
eṣaḥ
—
he
tvā
—
You
aniḥ - daśam
—
not yet ten days old
sindhau
—
into the sea
akṣipat
—
threw
śambaraḥ
—
Śambara
asuraḥ
—
the demon
matsyaḥ
—
a fish
agrasīt
—
devoured
tat
—
its
udarāt
—
from the belly
itaḥ
—
here
prāptaḥ
—
obtained
bhavān
—
You
prabho
—
O master .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
eṣa tvānirdaśaṁ sindhāv
eṣaḥ
he
tvā
You
aniḥ - daśam
not yet ten days old
sindhau
into the sea
akṣipac chambaro ’suraḥ
akṣipat
threw
śambaraḥ
Śambara
matsyo ’grasīt tad-udarād
asuraḥ
the demon
matsyaḥ
a fish
agrasīt
devoured
tat
its
udarāt
from the belly
itaḥ prāpto bhavān prabho
itaḥ
here
prāptaḥ
obtained
bhavān
You
prabho
O master .
Important Words
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aniḥ-daśam
—
not yet ten days old
Compound: an-iḥ (without) + daśam (the tenth). Repeated from v.3 verbatim. Rati's memory of His abduction is precise to the day; widowhood made her count. The detail also indicts Śambara: the child was below the threshold of Vedic society's protection.
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sindhau-akṣipat
—
threw into the sea
Locative sindhau (in the sea) + akṣipat (hurled). Sindhu is the ocean as cosmic body — the same waters where Mahā-Viṣṇu reclines. The asura's violence dispatched the Lord's son into the Lord's own bedroom.
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agrasīt
—
devoured
Aorist of √gras (to swallow). The same root used at v.4 for the fish; Rati's verb-choice matches the narrator's, marking her account as faithful exegesis, not embellishment.
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udarāt
—
from the belly
Ablative of udara. The same noun as in v.6 (matsya-udara-niveśanam). Pradyumna's body has now made the full circuit — entered the belly, dwelt within, emerged. A parodic miniature of Garbhodaka-līlā.
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prabho
—
O master
Repeated from v.12. Rati has shifted definitively to wife-mode; every utterance is now in the prabhu-frame. The repetition is doctrinal — the new naming is not a slip but a fixed address.
That demon, Śambara, threw You into the sea when You were not even ten days old, and a fish swallowed You. Then in this very place we recovered You from the fish’s abdomen, O master.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
That demon, Śambara, threw You into the sea when You were not even ten days old, and a fish swallowed You. Then in this very place we recovered You from the fish's abdomen, O master.
Śrīdhara Svāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
She described how he was stolen in order to make Pradyumna angry. Why did he throw me in the sea? He was a demon by nature, enemy of the devatās (asuraḥ). He was the chief of the demons, with great illusory powers, or famous as the enemy of Cupid (asuraḥ). She addresses him as master to confirm that he is her husband, or to show that he is capable of killing Śambara.
Related values & verses
Related values
Bhakti (Devotion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)Daksya (Resourcefulness / Skill)
Related verses
SB 1.2BG 14.1
BG 15.7
BG 15.9
BG 3.27
BG 3.3
BG 2.62
BG 3.11
BG 9.11
BG 6.35
BG 14.12
BG 12.6
BG 15.2
BG 17.3
BG 5.4
BG 5.18
Concepts
Jiva
Personal Guidance
Analogy
She tells Him His own story — 'thrown into the sea before You were ten days old, swallowed by a fish, retrieved in this very kitchen.' The bhakta narrates the Lord's biography back to Him; the Lord receives His past from the lips of the one who waited.
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