Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.74.53
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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duryodhanam
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Duryodhana
Compound: dur (difficult) + yodhana (to-be-fought). 'One difficult to fight'. The name predicts the trouble. The Bhāgavatam exits the chapter naming the antagonist of the next phase — the verse is a hinge.
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kalim
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the empowered expansion of Kali
Personification of the kali-yuga energy. Gauḍīyas: not the abstract age but a vyaktī — a being. Mahābhārata identifies Duryodhana as kali's portion; the Bhāgavatam keeps this identification.
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kuru - kula - āmayam
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the disease of the Kuru dynasty
Compound: Kuru + kula (family) + āmaya (disease). One word for the whole tragic structural meaning of Duryodhana. Gauḍīyas: kula-āmaya is the technical Sanskrit metaphor for a family-curse-bearer; the verse diagnoses Duryodhana clinically.
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na sehe
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could not tolerate
Imperfect of √sah (with na). 'Did-not-endure'. The verse's central verb. The asurika defining feature is asahiṣṇutā of bhakta-glory. Gauḍīyas: kṣamā (tolerance) is bhakta; asahiṣṇutā is its opposite.
Śrīla Prabhupāda writes: “Duryodhana by nature was very envious because of his sinful life, and he appeared in the dynasty of the Kurus as a chronic disease personified in order to destroy the whole family.” Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī mentions that Duryodhana hated pure religious principles.
Among the wicked the chief person Duryodhana is described. He did not praise Kṛṣṇa or the sacrifice. Nor did he go home in bliss. Rather he was overcome with lamentation since he was sinful and since he could not tolerate the prosperity of Yudhiṣṭhira. Envy appeared because of competition with a brother and because Yudhiṣṭhira was fixed in dharma.
At the wedding where everyone is dancing, one cousin sits in the corner with his arms crossed, sick at the sight of joy. Duryodhana is that cousin — kali-personified, kuru-kula-āmaya, the family's own disease — and the next many cantos of the Mahābhārata will be his fever rising.
After the Rājasūya, Duryodhana mistook crystal floor for water, lifted his clothes; mistook a pool for floor, fell in. Draupadī (in the Mahābhārata; the Bhāgavatam softens this) laughed, calling him 'the blind son of the blind'. That laugh ignited his shame into the fire that lit Kurukṣetra.
SB 10.75 will tell this episode. Verse 53 here is its seed: the eka-rāṭ's flourishing was already unbearable to him before the stumble. Gauḍīyas read: the asurika cannot tolerate Vaiṣṇava-aiśvarya — that intolerance is itself kali-praveśa.
My note
Source: vedabase.io