Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.77.15
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śārṅgam
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the bow Śārṅga
Kṛṣṇa's celebrated bow, made of horn (śṛṅga). Just as Arjuna has Gāṇḍīva, Kṛṣṇa as Lord of Dvārakā wields Śārṅga. Gauḍīyas treat the temporary fall of Śārṅga as līlā, never as defeat — Bhagavān's weapons obey His mood, not gravity.
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śārṅga-dhanvanaḥ
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of the wielder of Śārṅga
Compound: śārṅga + dhanvan (bow-wielder). One of Kṛṣṇa's standard epithets. The Bhāgavatam pointedly uses the title in the very verse where the bow slips — a quiet reminder that the wielder is greater than the weapon.
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adbhutam
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wonderful, astonishing
The narrator's own word for the event. Vyāsa marks this as adbhuta-rasa — wonder. Gauḍīyas read such asides as authorial pointers: do not naturalize this fall; it is meant to provoke awe, not analysis.
This and the next verse are not the opinion of Sukadeva. Doh (Arm) in the neutral form is sometimes seen, as in Raghu Kavya. That the bow fell from Lord’ s hand was astonishing because the Lord’s arm has unlimited strength.
Doḥ is neuter. Śālva struck Kṛṣṇa’s left arm. According to Raghu-kāvya he struck his bow.
As if laughing at other, completely contrary opinions Śukadeva speaks in order to demolish this ideas with logic later. Śālva struck Kṛṣṇa’s left arm though he held his Sārṅga bow. This is completely wrong since it is impossible to injure the Lord having a form of eternity, knowledge and bliss. Though there is another hidden meaning, that is not explained here, as it would destroy this other opinion. Śrīdhara Svāmī also does not mention it.
Śālva manages to strike Kṛṣṇa's left arm, and astonishingly, Śārṅga falls from His hand. The Bhāgavatam reports the wonder without explanation — the Lord allows the bow to slip so that the spectators may agonize, the demon may swell, and the next stroke may be all the more decisive.
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