Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.66.39
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sūrya-koṭi-pratimam
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resembling millions of suns
Compound: sūrya (sun) + koṭi (ten million) + pratima (likeness). The standard Bhāgavata superlative for Sudarśana's brilliance — also used in temple verses for Bhagavān's own bodily effulgence. Gauḍīyas note: when the disc shines, it shows the Lord's bodily light because the disc is the Lord's own limb.
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pralaya-anala-prabham
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whose effulgence is like the fire of universal annihilation
Compound: pralaya (cosmic dissolution) + anala (fire) + prabhā (effulgence). The eschatological simile from verse 17 returns. Gauḍīyas treat pralayānala as Bhagavān's saṁhāra-mode — the same Person who creates and preserves now incinerates, and the disc is His agent.
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mukunda-astram
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the weapon of Lord Kṛṣṇa
Compound: Mukunda (one who gives mukti) + astra (weapon). The chapter pointedly calls Kṛṣṇa 'Mukunda' at the moment His disc burns. Gauḍīyas read the choice with care: even the disc's incineration is a form of mukti — Pauṇḍraka was liberated by it (verse 24), and Sudakṣiṇa, who is about to be incinerated, will be released from his vow's debt in death.
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rodasī
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heaven and earth
Dual of rodas (earth and sky as a pair). Vedic archaism. The disc's heat reaches both rodas — the full cosmos. Gauḍīyas appreciate Śuka's archaism: the moment is described in Vedic vocabulary because it is, structurally, a Vedic-scale event.
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jājvalyamānam
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blazing with fire
Intensive present participle of √jval (to blaze). The disc does not merely burn; it blazes intensively. Gauḍīyas note that intensive forms in Sanskrit signal the verb being performed by something whose nature is the verb itself — Sudarśana is not burning, it is the burning.
Spreading in the heavens and earth, the sudarsana cakra afflicted the fire demon (agnim).
After getting the order, the cakra afflicted the fire demon. Though the cakra was sharp and hot, it was seen as pleasant to look at by the devotees (sudarśanam). Still the Lord was willing to give such persons liberation (mukundasya).
After getting the order (atha), the cakra afflicted the fire demon because it was the weapon of the Lord, who gives joy to his devotees such as Śiva (mukunda). Thus it is shown as more powerful than just capable of burning the fire demon. It blazed like million suns. Though the cakra was sharp and hot, it was seen as pleasant to look at by the devotees (sudarśanam). With his extraordinary (sva) heat (tejasā) the cakra burned even heaven and earth (rodasī).
Imagine the noonday sun multiplied by ten million, condensed to a single edge — that is Sudarśana when its mission begins. The kṛtyā that has burned the directions meets the burner of all directions. Heat that mimicked annihilation is corrected by Heat that authors annihilation.
My note
Source: vedabase.io