Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.32
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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cakreṇa kṣura-neminā
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with the razor-edged cakra
Compound: cakra + kṣura-nemi (razor-rim). Sudarśana — 'beautiful to see' — is named here by its sharpness. Gauḍīyas note the chiastic theology: the most beautiful thing in Vaikuṇṭha is also the most cutting against pride.
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śākhāḥ iva vanaspateḥ
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like branches of a tree
Simile: arms as branches. The Bhāgavatam's stock image for false expansion that has overgrown its trunk. The asura's thousand arms had no Person beneath them; pruning them does not reduce a self, only relieves a surplus.
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asakṛt
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repeatedly
Adverb: not just once. Bāṇa keeps firing; Kṛṣṇa keeps cutting. The asura's resilience is itself part of the līlā — Bhagavān gives him many chances to be foolish before pruning the last arm and sparing his life.
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bāhūn
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the arms
Accusative plural of bāhu. Bāṇa's arms — the iconographic feature of his asura-supremacy — are now the object of Kṛṣṇa's cakra. The same noun returns at v. 49 reduced to four; the chapter's arc is the journey of this word.
As Bana (tasya) was throwing weapons (asyatah), Krsna cut off his arms.
Later when Bāṇa began hurling various weapons at Kṛṣṇa, as soon as the weapons were released, Kṛṣṇa cut off his arms since he was endowed with all powers (bhagavān), using his sharp-edged cakra. He did this quickly and easily. Hari-vaṁśa describes this: alāta-cakravat tūrṇaṁ bhramyac cakraṁ sadābhavat / kṣiptaṁ tu vāsudevena bāṇasya raṇa-mūrdhani | viṣṇu-cakraṁ bhramaty āśu śaighryād rūpam na dṛśyate // tasya bāhu-sahasrasya paryāyeṇa punaḥ punaḥ / bāṇasya chedanaṁ cakre tac cakraṁ raṇa-mūrdhani // In front of the battle with Bāṇa, the cakra thrown by the Lord revolved quickly and constantly like a fire brand moving in a circle. It moved so fast its form could not be seen. The cakra cut off Bāṇa’s thousand arms one at a time on the battlefield.
Like a gardener pruning a tree that has grown wildly into the road, Kṛṣṇa cuts Bāṇa's arms as branches — neither malice nor mercy, just the work of returning a structure to its useful size. The disc that prunes is the same disc that protects Sudāmā and Ambarīṣa.
When the angered Durvāsā ran for refuge throughout the three worlds, the Sudarśana-cakra pursued him on King Ambarīṣa's behalf — not because the king wished injury, but because Bhagavān's discus naturally protects ekādaśī-vrata bhakti (SB 9.4-5).
The same cakra that defends a Vaiṣṇava king prunes an asura king's arms today. Gauḍīyas read this consistency as the cakra's character: it is Bhagavān's will made circular, cutting wherever pride exceeds its allotment.
My note
Source: vedabase.io