Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.76.12
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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ardyamānā
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tormented
Passive participle of √ard. The very verb the Bhāgavatam uses for the earth burdened by adharmic kings (SB 10.1). Dvārakā's torment is the same category Bhū-devī prayed against — but staged so that the Lord's son may answer.
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saubhena
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by the airplane Saubha
Instrumental of Saubha. Personification by grammar: the vehicle, not Śālva, is named as the agent of torment. In Gauḍīya reading, the asura has so identified with his weapon that the weapon takes his place in the verse.
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śam
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peace
Vedic noun — peace, well-being. The same śam that opens the Upaniṣadic śānti-mantras. Bhāgavata diagnosis: śam in a city follows the city's contact with the Lord; when the contact is dimmed, even Dvārakā loses śam temporarily.
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tri-pureṇa
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by the three aerial cities of the demons
Contiguous join (tri + pureṇa). Reference to the Tripura myth. The Bhāgavatam often anchors current pastimes in earlier ones; this micro-comparison teaches that Kṛṣṇa-līlā recapitulates and surpasses Śiva-līlā.
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kṛṣṇasya nagarī
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Lord Kṛṣṇa's city
Contiguous join (kṛṣṇasya + nagarī). Possessive — the city is Kṛṣṇa's. Prabhupāda repeatedly insists Dvārakā is non-different from her Lord; the asura attacks not 'a place' but a limb of Bhagavān.
The city of Kṛṣṇa was fiercely attacked. Śukadeva calls out to Parīkṣit in astonishment and grief. This pastime, difficult to understand, was the will of the Lord.
The city of Kṛṣṇa, who is the highest bliss, tormented terribly by the shower of weapons from the vehicle, had no peace. “This seems impossible.” The whole earth had no peace because of the attack of Tripura. Just as Śiva became glorified by the Lord for burning the cities of the demons, so now this incident took place by the will of the Lord. O king, you can understand this. Or just as the earth was afflicted by Tripura, Dvārakā was also afflicted, but did it not attain peace? Yes, it became peaceful because of it was the city of Kṛṣṇa.
Like a household where the children cannot sleep because of the noise outside the gate, Dvārakā has no śam — even Kṛṣṇa's own city, when His direct hand is withheld, feels what its citizens would otherwise be spared. The disturbance is permitted to set the stage for Pradyumna's lustre.
Verse 12 itself draws the simile: as the earth was tormented by the three aerial cities of the demons. In Purāṇic tradition the three cities (Tripura) of Maya Dānava — gold, silver, iron — afflicted the earth until Śiva, with the earth as chariot and Viṣṇu as arrow, burned them down.
Gauḍīyas read the parallel carefully: there Maya built three cities, here one (also iron); there Śiva shot them, here the arrow will be Kṛṣṇa's son. The Tripurāri pattern is the template; the agent has changed from Śiva to Kṛṣṇa's line.
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