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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.77.22

కృష్ణ కృష్ణ మహాబాహో పితా తే పితృవత్సల । బద్ధ్వాపనీత: శాల్వేన సౌనికేన యథా పశు: ॥ ౨౨ ॥
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā-bāho
[krishna krishna mahaa-baaho]
pitā te pitṛ-vatsala
[pitaa te pitri-vatsala]
baddhvāpanītaḥ śālvena
[baddhvaapaneetah shaalvena]
saunikena yathā paśuḥ
[saunikena yathaa pashuh]
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa — O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa mahā - bāho — O mighty-armed one pitā — father te — Your pitṛ — to Your parents vatsala — O You who are so affectionate baddhvā — being captured apanītaḥ — taken away śālvena — by Śālva saunikena — by a butcher yathā — as paśuḥ — a domestic animal .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā-bāho
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa
O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa
mahā - bāho
O mighty-armed one
pitā te pitṛ-vatsala
pitā
father
te
Your
pitṛ
to Your parents
vatsala
O You who are so affectionate
baddhvāpanītaḥ śālvena
baddhvā
being captured
apanītaḥ
taken away
śālvena
by Śālva
saunikena yathā paśuḥ
saunikena
by a butcher
yathā
as
paśuḥ
a domestic animal .
  • kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa — O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa
    Vocative doubled — the very form of the holy name. Gauḍīyas note the irony: the māyā cries the name no less than a devotee does, and yet because the address is theatrical, not surrendered, it produces no effect. The same syllables, opposite hearts.
  • pitṛ-vatsala — affectionate to Your father
    Compound: pitṛ (father) + vatsala (tenderly affectionate). The illusion knows Kṛṣṇa's vātsalya toward Vasudeva and reaches for it directly. Gauḍīyas treasure this epithet as confirmation that Bhagavān truly receives the role of son and is moved by it.
  • saunikena — by a butcher
    From sūnā — slaughterhouse. The simile equates Śālva to a butcher and Vasudeva to a paśu — language meant to wound Kṛṣṇa's heart at its tenderest joint, His father's safety.
  • mahā-bāho — O mighty-armed one
    Vocative compound: mahā (great) + bāhu (arm). A standard heroic epithet used by Arjuna for Kṛṣṇa across the Gītā. The māyā quotes the Gītā's vocabulary back at its own Speaker — illusion plagiarizes scripture.
[The man said:] O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, mighty-armed one, who are so affectionate to Your parents! Śālva has seized Your father and taken him away, as a butcher leads an animal to slaughter.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
[The man said:] O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, mighty-armed one, who are so affectionate to Your parents! Śālva has seized Your father and taken him away, as a butcher leads an animal to slaughter.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

O person famous as Kṛṣṇa! He repeats his name to imitate fear. O great warrior (mahābāho)! Your father has been tied up and taken away by Śālva. This is most improper. And you are affectionate to your father. He says this to produce lamentation in Kṛṣṇa. He has been taken with disrespect or with intent to harm him (apa—nītaḥ). It is not possible for your father to free himself. He gives an example of an animal lead away by the butcher in order to induce more lamentation. The other meaning is as follows. Instead of pitā the word can be taken as apitā. Someone who is not your father, but similar, made by illusion, has been taken away.

Concepts
Jiva

"O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, mighty-armed, affectionate to Your parents — Śālva has bound Your father and led him away like a butcher leads an animal." The fake messenger uses Kṛṣṇa's own intimate names against Him. Asurī-māyā is most cunning when it wears the vocabulary of bhakti.

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