Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.59.14
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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yama - kṣayam
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the abode of Yamarāja (death)
Compound: Yama + kṣaya (dwelling, end). 'Sent to Yama's house' is the standard Bhāgavata euphemism for death in combat; for those slain by Bhagavān's hand, the destination is in fact higher.
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narakaḥ
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Narakāsura (Bhauma)
Naraka = 'hell'. The demon bears the name of the very destination he sends others toward; cosmic irony the Bhāgavatam never quite stops noticing.
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dharā - sutaḥ
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son of the earth (Bhauma)
Compound: dharā (earth-bearer, earth) + suta (son). The chapter returns repeatedly to Bhauma's parentage — his mother Bhūmi will pray for his son in verse 31. The earth bears him; the earth will mourn him; the earth will beg for his line.
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madaiḥ
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with mada (ichor exuded by rutting elephants)
Mada in the literal sense — the fluid that leaks from a rutting elephant's temples; in the wider sense, the same word names pride. Bhauma's army leaks the substance of intoxication; the elephants embody his hubris.
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payaḥ - dhi
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milk-ocean
Compound: payas (milk) + dhi (container). Bhauma's elephants are said to descend from the Milk Ocean — same source as Lakṣmī, the Pārijāta, and the amṛta. Even his finest assets are originally Viṣṇu's.
He sent them all to the kingdom of death. The real meaning is however that he gave them liberation, for yama means the process starting with yama and niyama and ending with liberation.
They all went to the abode of Yama. They died. However after that they attained liberation. Acyuta here means that his weapons were unfailing in their purpose. The leaders were killed (nirastān) by having their heads cut off etc. with ease, from far away, by the Lord’s weapons. Bhauma saw this because he went up on top of the fort. He was called Naraka because from birth he had a wicked nature, taking human heads in his mouth as soon as he was born. The story is told in the Kālika Purāṇa. He was the son of the earth and thus had great power. He emerged (nirakramat) from the fort with elephants born from the Milk Ocean. This means that the elephants came in the family of Airāvata, who came from the Milk Ocean. Previously they were of that family, but now on the enemy’s side.
A surgeon cuts away the failed grafts before going for the tumor — heads, thighs, arms, legs, armor, all listed in the verse's grim inventory, then Bhauma himself emerges from the citadel on his mada-streaming elephants. Kṛṣṇa works from the periphery inward; the demon's outer extensions must fall before the demon will come out to meet Him.
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