Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.67.24
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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tāla-saṅkāśau
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resembling palm trees
Compound: tāla (palm tree) + saṅkāśa (resembling). The same trees the demon was uprooting now serve as simile for his own arms — body and weapon collapse into one. Maximum śarīra-bala.
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muṣṭī-kṛtya
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making fists
Muṣṭi (fist) + kṛtya (making). Asuric clenching. The hand that should be open in añjali (joined palms before the Lord) is closed against Him. Mudrās invert in asura-bhāva.
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kapi-īśvaraḥ
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the lord of apes
Compound: kapi (ape) + īśvara (lord). A paradoxical title: lord of beasts. SB uses it just before Bhagavān strikes, to make the asymmetry vivid — kapi-īśvara meets Yādava-indra.
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rohiṇī-putram
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the son of Rohiṇī
Compound: Rohiṇī + putra. Balarāma's matronymic — Rohiṇī is His birth-mother (Devakī's transferred-embryo līlā in SB 10.2). Even at the moment of striking, the verse names Him by intimate, family designation.
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vakṣasi-arūrujat
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beat upon (His) chest
Locative vakṣas (chest) + imperfect of ā- + √ruj (to crush, break). The śrīvatsa-bearing chest is what the asura strikes. SB will avenge precisely this in the next verse — the chest-blow is the trigger for the bare-hand reply.
Making fists (musti krya) he beat (arurujat) Balarama.
When he ran out of stones he attacked with his fists. Śukadeva, remembering Rohiṇī’s love for him, calls Balarāma the son of Rohiṇī.
When the stones were exhausted, he clenched his fists, on his arms which were like tāla trees. This indicates his fists were strong and heavy since he was the best of the apes. He approached the son of Rohiṇī. Śukadeva, with great bhakti, laments Dvivida’s action. He should not have attacked the son of Rohiṇī. Or just as Kṛṣṇa was born to Devakī to show his strength, Balarāma was born to Rohiṇī to show strength. He possessed all powers.
Arms like palm-trees, fists balled, the demon comes in finally with his own body — every implement gone, only bāhu left. There is something honest in this last attack: the asura has been reduced to himself. And against the Lord, the self alone is not enough.
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