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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.17

విశీర్యమాణం స్వబలం ద‍ృష్ట్వా బాణోఽత్యమర్షిత: । కృష్ణమభ్యద్రవత్ సఙ్ఖ్యే రథీ హిత్వైవ సాత్యకిమ్ ॥ ౧౭ ॥
viśīryamāṇam sva-balaṁ
[visheeryamaanam sva-balam]
dṛṣṭvā bāṇo ’ty-amarṣitaḥ
[drishtvaa baano ’ty-amarshitah]
kṛṣṇam abhyadravat saṅkhye
[krishnam abhyadravat sankhye]
rathī hitvaiva sātyakim
[rathee hitvaiva saatyakim]
viśīryamāṇam — being torn apart sva — his balam — military force dṛṣṭvā — seeing bāṇaḥ — Bāṇāsura ati — extremely amarṣitaḥ — infuriated kṛṣṇam — Lord Kṛṣṇa abhyadravat — he attacked saṅkhye — on the battlefield rathī — riding on his chariot hitvā — leaving aside eva — indeed sātyakim — Sātyaki .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
viśīryamāṇam sva-balaṁ
viśīryamāṇam
being torn apart
sva
his
balam
military force
dṛṣṭvā bāṇo ’ty-amarṣitaḥ
dṛṣṭvā
seeing
bāṇaḥ
Bāṇāsura
kṛṣṇam abhyadravat saṅkhye
ati
extremely
amarṣitaḥ
infuriated
kṛṣṇam
Lord Kṛṣṇa
abhyadravat
he attacked
saṅkhye
on the battlefield
rathī hitvaiva sātyakim
rathī
riding on his chariot
hitvā
leaving aside
eva
indeed
sātyakim
Sātyaki .
  • viśīryamāṇam — being torn apart
    Present passive participle of vi-√śṝ (to break, scatter). The army does not collapse all at once; it is being torn apart in real time. The verse marks the moment Bāṇa sees his structure dissolve.
  • ati-amarṣitaḥ — extremely intolerant
    Compound: ati (very) + amarṣita (unable to tolerate). Amarṣa is the asura's reflex — what bhakti calls titikṣā (forbearance) the asura cannot perform. Bāṇa's intolerance is the inverse of the Vaiṣṇava's chief virtue.
  • abhyadravat — rushed toward
    Imperfect of abhi-√dru (to run at). The same root as dudruvuḥ in the previous verse — his soldiers ran away, he runs toward. Both motions end in his loss; the asura cannot stay still long enough to surrender.
  • hitvā eva sātyakim — abandoning Sātyaki
    Bāṇa's mistake is to break engagement with his appointed opponent to challenge the Lord directly. Gauḍīyas read this as the conditioned soul's typical leap: skipping the guru (here, Sātyaki, who would have ended him in due course) to confront Bhagavān unprepared.
Bāṇāsura was furious to see his entire military force being torn apart. Leaving his fight with Sātyaki, he charged across the battlefield on his chariot and attacked Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Bāṇāsura was furious to see his entire military force being torn apart. Leaving his fight with Sātyaki, he charged across the battlefield on his chariot and attacked Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Seeing his army (balam) scattered, Bāṇa left his fight with Sātyaki and attacked Kṛṣṇa.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

His troops were destroyed or broken. Or he saw in the fight with Sātyakī that his power had withered away. Fighting with him was useless. Why waste my powers? I should fight with the main opponent, Kṛṣṇa. He thus charged towards Kṛṣṇa quickly since he mounted a chariot with a charioteer named Nandīśvara. nandīśa-saṁgṛhītāśvam adhirūḍho mahāratham / bāṇas tatrāyayau yoddhuṁ kṛṣṇa-kārṣṇibalaiḥ saha // Bāṇa, mounted on a huge chariot with horses guided by Nandīśa, then came to fight with Kṛṣṇa and his armies. Viṣṇu Purāṇa Though it was not proper to give up fighting the opponent, he gave up Sātyaki without winning (eva has meaning of vā) because he was very angry.

Concepts
Jiva

An asura's logic is escalation: when the periphery breaks, charge the center. Bāṇa abandons Sātyaki and rushes Kṛṣṇa — exactly the wrong direction, the way a moth charges the very flame that is already consuming its kin.

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