Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.61.36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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adhikṣiptaḥ
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insulted
adhi + √kṣip, 'to throw at.' A specific kind of insult — words 'thrown at' someone, more violent than mere avamāna. Names what passes the threshold of Balarāma's tolerance.
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kruddhaḥ
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angered
From √krudh. Distinguished from manyu (verse 31): manyu is sustained, krodha is the flash. Balarāma's manyu (slow swell) ripens into krodha (the strike). The Bhāgavata's emotion-vocabulary is exact.
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parigham
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His club
Sanskrit for an iron-bound club, a heavy bludgeon. Distinct from Balarāma's signature musala and hala. The Bhāgavata varies the weapon-name in verse 38 too — pariga(ha) suggests an improvised wedding-hall weapon, perhaps a door-bar.
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jaghne
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He struck dead
From √han. The same root as in Hanumān ('struck-jaw') and ahiṁsā. Bhāgavata uses jaghne for fatal blows by Bhagavān and His expansions only — never for ordinary killings.
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nṛmṇa-saṁsadi
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in the auspicious assembly
nṛmṇa (auspicious, joyful) + saṁsad (assembly). The verse's bitter irony: the killing happens in the very assembly called 'auspicious.' Bhāgavata's narrative knife — the word for joy holds the corpse.
At the auspicous gathering (nrmna samsadi) Balarama raised his club and struck Rukmi.
Being mocked by the kings and Rukmī, so that even Kṛṣṇa was included in their derision, Balarāma killed him in the auspicious (nṛmṇa) assembly.
He was mocked in this way, including Kṛṣṇa as well (evam) by the kings, instigated by Rukmī. Balarāma killed him in the auspicious (nṛmṇa) assembly.
Like a club falling at last on the rim that has cracked under many small blows, the parigha rises and falls in the wedding-hall — and the same auspicious assembly that gathered to bless a marriage becomes the scene where Saṅkarṣaṇa, who draws together, draws Rukmī's life away.
Balarāma's anger has form-precedent. In SB 10.15 He killed the ass-demon Dhenuka with a single throw against a tāla tree; in SB 10.18 He killed Pralambāsura with one blow of His fist in the cowherd-game. Each time, the same pattern: tolerance, tolerance, then one decisive blow.
Rukmī's death follows the same arc. Balarāma absorbed three rounds of cheating and a public sneer; the parigha falls only when the line is crossed — and the Bhāgavata makes clear it falls as dharma, not rage. The chapter's later silence of Kṛṣṇa (verse 39) is the necessary counter-rhythm: where Balarāma acts on Yadu-dharma, Kṛṣṇa preserves the Yadu-sneha.
My note
Source: vedabase.io