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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.62.32

జిఘృక్షయా తాన్ పరిత: ప్రసర్పత: శునో యథా శూకరయూథపోఽహనత్ । తే హన్యమానా భవనాద్ వినిర్గతా నిర్భిన్నమూర్ధోరుభుజా: ప్రదుద్రువు: ॥ ౩౨ ॥
jighṛkṣayā tān paritaḥ prasarpataḥ
[jighrikshayaa taan paritah prasarpatah]
śuno yathā śūkara-yūthapo ’hanat
[shuno yathaa shookara-yoothapo ’hanat]
te hanyamānā bhavanād vinirgatā
[te hanyamaanaa bhavanaad vinirgataa]
nirbhinna-mūrdhoru-bhujāḥ pradudruvuḥ
[nirbhinna-moordhoru-bhujaah pradudruvuh]
jighṛkṣayā — wanting to grab Him tān — them paritaḥ — on all sides prasarpataḥ — approaching śunaḥ — dogs yathā — as śūkara — of hogs yūtha — of a group paḥ — the leader ahanat — He struck te — they hanyamānāḥ — being struck bhavanāt — from the palace vinirgatāḥ — went out nirbhinna — broken mūrdha — their heads ūru — thighs bhujāḥ — and arms pradudruvuḥ — they fled .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
jighṛkṣayā tān paritaḥ prasarpataḥ
jighṛkṣayā
wanting to grab Him
tān
them
paritaḥ
on all sides
prasarpataḥ
approaching
śuno yathā śūkara-yūthapo ’hanat
śunaḥ
dogs
yathā
as
śūkara
of hogs
yūtha
of a group
paḥ
the leader
te hanyamānā bhavanād vinirgatā
nirbhinna-mūrdhoru-bhujāḥ pradudruvuḥ
ahanat
He struck
te
they
hanyamānāḥ
being struck
bhavanāt
from the palace
vinirgatāḥ
went out
nirbhinna
broken
mūrdha
their heads
ūru
thighs
bhujāḥ
and arms
pradudruvuḥ
they fled .
  • śūkara-yūtha-paḥ — the leader of a pack of boars
    Compound: śūkara (boar) + yūtha (group) + paḥ (leader). A Varāha-allusion in metaphor — Aniruddha to the guards as the boar-leader to the dogs. The Bhāgavatam loves to slip its own avatāra-bestiary into similes for catur-vyūha combat — the doctrine is in the imagery.
  • jighṛkṣayā — wanting to grab Him
    Instrumental of jighṛkṣā (desiderative of √grah). To want to grab Bhagavān, to want to capture His vyūha — the impulse will define Bāṇa's defeat. You cannot grasp the Ungraspable; the attempt itself is your destruction.
  • nirbhinna-mūrdha-ūru-bhujāḥ — with broken heads, thighs, arms
    Compound: nir (out) + bhinna (broken) + mūrdha (head) + ūru (thigh) + bhuja (arm). The Bhāgavatam's anatomy of defeat. Gauḍīyas note: arms in particular — Bāṇa's whole pride was in his arms; the war that will follow strikes the head of that pride directly.
  • pradudruvuḥ — they fled
    Aorist of pra + √dru. The same verb the demigods use in SB 8.10 when fleeing from the asuras. Here it is flipped: the asura's army flees from Bhagavān's vyūha. The Bhāgavatam's verb-choices keep the cosmic ledger straight.
As the guards converged on Him from all sides, trying to capture Him, Aniruddha struck them just as the leader of a pack of boars strikes back at dogs. Hit by His blows, the guards fled the palace, running for their lives with shattered heads, thighs and arms.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
As the guards converged on Him from all sides, trying to capture Him, Aniruddha struck them just as the leader of a pack of boars strikes back at dogs. Hit by His blows, the guards fled the palace, running for their lives with shattered heads, thighs and arms.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Desiring to capture him, they surrounded him. But they could not. He struck them with his club and they fled from Ūsa’s quarters.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

They wanted to seize him, based on the news they received, or according to Hari-vaṁśa, to take him away. He struck the guards with his club, just a huge boar strikes dogs who surround him with a desire to grab it. The guards fled from her room or the room for young girls. Some had their heads, or thighs or arms completely crushed. Thus they fled in panic (pra-dudruvuḥ).

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Jiva

Like the great boar in a forest, ringed by dogs, lowering his head and clearing the circle with one swing of his tusks, Aniruddha disperses Bāṇa's guards. The image is from the Bhāgavatam's own bestiary — the Lord is again identified, this time at the level of metaphor, with the Varāha-mood.

Varāhadeva and Hiraṇyākṣa

In SB 3.18–19, Lord Viṣṇu as the boar Varāha lifted the earth from the Garbhodaka ocean and then dispatched the demon Hiraṇyākṣa in single combat. The boar-image of Bhagavān is the Bhāgavatam's archetype of pristine power exercised for the earth's protection.

Gauḍīyas hear the same archetype in this verse: Aniruddha as 'leader of the pack of boars' against the 'dogs' is a direct invocation of the Varāha-mood. The poet wants us to see the avatāra-tattva behind the catur-vyūha's combat.

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