Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.78.4
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kārūṣaḥ
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King of Karūṣa
Dantavakra ruled Karūṣa, a kingdom near modern-day Bundelkhand. Kingship is the very position from which he ought to recognize the Lord; instead it becomes the platform for his offense.
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mukundam
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the giver of liberation
Mukti-do = Mukunda. The irony is sharp: Dantavakra calls Kṛṣṇa by His liberation-granting name in the very breath he announces his intent to kill. The name does its work anyway — moments later he is liberated.
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durmadaḥ
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wildly intoxicated
Dur- + mada (intoxication, pride). One of the standard Gauḍīya diagnostics of demonic consciousness: mada that has no object worth being drunk on, intoxication without rasa.
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diṣṭyā diṣṭyā
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by good fortune, by good fortune
Repeated for emphasis. The word diṣṭi (fate, providence) is the same root devotees use to acknowledge unearned grace — Dantavakra speaks accurate words with inverted intent.
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dṛṣṭi-patham
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path of vision
Compound: dṛṣṭi (sight) + patha (path). To come into the dṛṣṭi-patha of Kṛṣṇa is, for a devotee, the goal of life. Dantavakra receives darśana and treats it as a target.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that after having waited for three lifetimes, Dantavakra, formerly a gatekeeper in Vaikuṇṭha, could now return to the spiritual world. Therefore the transcendental meaning of his statement is: “How fortunate! How fortunate I am that today I can return to my constitutional position in the spiritual world!” In the next verse, Dantavakra will refer to Kṛṣṇa as mātuleya, a maternal cousin. Dantavakra’s mother, Śrutaśravā, was the sister of Kṛṣṇa’s father, Vasudeva.
Dantavakra born in Karusa (karsuah) raised his club. The hidden meaning of the verse is as follows: He, his arrogance gone (duramah), spoke to Mukunda (giver of liberation), who would give him liberation in his third birth. "Now (adya) in this third birth due to the curse of a brahmana, I am seeing my master who gives liberation. This is very very auspicious (distya)." Distya is repeated twice in jubilation.
Dantavakra was born in Karūṣa province (kārūṣaḥ). He spoke with pride (pra āha) even to the Lord, because he was evil (durmadaḥ).
Dantavakra greets Kṛṣṇa the way a fevered man greets the doctor he plans to attack — 'What luck to have you here today!' He cannot tell rescue from confrontation. The blessing of darśana arrives, and he reads it as opportunity for revenge.
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