Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.18
ధనూంష్యాకృష్య యుగపద్ బాణ: పఞ్చశతాని వై ।
ఏకైకస్మిన్ శరౌ ద్వౌ ద్వౌ సన్దధే రణదుర్మద: ॥ ౧౮ ॥
dhanūṁṣy ākṛṣya yugapad
[dhanoomshy aakrishya yugapad]
bāṇaḥ pañca-śatāni vai
[baanah pancha-shataani vai]
ekaikasmin śarau dvau dvau
[ekaikasmin sharau dvau dvau]
sandadhe raṇa-durmadaḥ
[sandadhe rana-durmadah]
Word-for-word
dhanūṁṣi
—
bows
ākṛṣya
—
pulling back
yugapat
—
simultaneously
bāṇaḥ
—
Bāṇa
pañca - śatāni
—
five hundred
vai
—
indeed
eka - ekasmin
—
upon each one
śarau
—
arrows
dvau dvau
—
two for each
sandadhe
—
he fixed
raṇa
—
due to the fighting
durmadaḥ
—
mad with pride .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
dhanūṁṣy ākṛṣya yugapad
dhanūṁṣi
bows
ākṛṣya
pulling back
yugapat
simultaneously
bāṇaḥ pañca-śatāni vai
bāṇaḥ
Bāṇa
pañca - śatāni
five hundred
vai
indeed
ekaikasmin śarau dvau dvau
eka - ekasmin
upon each one
śarau
arrows
dvau dvau
two for each
sandadhe raṇa-durmadaḥ
sandadhe
he fixed
raṇa
due to the fighting
durmadaḥ
mad with pride .
Important Words
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yugapat
—
simultaneously
Adverb — at one and the same time. Bāṇa's pride is in the simultaneity; verse 19 will reuse the same word against him when Kṛṣṇa cuts all his bows yugapat. Bhagavān answers simultaneity with simultaneity.
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śarau dvau dvau
—
two arrows each
Distributive: two-two on each string. The repetition stages the asura's frantic doubling; Bhagavān's reply will be a single Sudarśana. One cakra against a thousand bows is the lesson of bhakti's economy.
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raṇa-durmadaḥ
—
intoxicated by battle
Compound: raṇa (battle) + durmada (badly intoxicated). Mada — pride and intoxication together — is one of the six enemies (kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, mātsarya). Bāṇa is its perfect specimen, intoxicated on the very combat that is about to end him.
Excited to a frenzy by the fighting, Bāṇa simultaneously pulled taut all the strings of his five hundred bows and fixed two arrows on each string.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Excited to a frenzy by the fighting, Bāṇa simultaneously pulled taut all the strings of his five hundred bows and fixed two arrows on each string.
Jīva Gosvāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
Being proud on the battlefield (raṇa-durmadaḥ) he shot his arrows.
Śrīdhara Svāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
He pulled the strings of even (vai) five hundred bows simultaneously because he was very crazy or proud, thinking “I have conquered everybody.”
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Analogy
Five hundred bows in a thousand hands, two arrows on each string — Bāṇa offers a parody of devotion's many-handed serving. The same arithmetic that could have served the Lord, turned against Him, becomes nothing but a noisy preparation for amputation.
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