Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.79.1
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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parvaṇi
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on the new-moon day
Locative of parvan, the joint of the lunar month. Demonic activity classically rises at amāvāsyā; the sages had told Balarāma that Balvala's pollution always came at the parva. The verse begins by marking sacred time — the moment Bhagavān's protection is most needed.
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pūya-gandhaḥ
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the smell of pus
Compound: pūya (pus) + gandha (smell). The brāhmaṇas' yajña should carry the fragrance of ghee and flowers toward the devas; demonic mood inverts it into stench. Gauḍīyas read the contrast as the standing law of the worlds — wherever Hari's service rises, the asuric wind tries to foul the air.
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pracaṇḍaḥ
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fierce
From pra + caṇḍa, 'extremely furious.' The wind itself is personified as violent — not weather, but a weapon of the demon. The verse is preparing us to see Balvala as the agent behind every sense-impression that strikes the sacrificial arena.
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pāṁśu-varṣaṇaḥ
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raining dust
Compound: pāṁśu (dust) + varṣaṇa (rain). The first of a series of obscene 'rains' (dust, then pus, then trident-borne demon) that invert the auspicious abhiṣeka. Each downpour is a parody of bathing; only at verse 7 will Balarāma receive the true abhiṣeka, from the sages who survive the pollution.
In the seventy ninth chapter, Balarama kills Balvala, goes on pilgrimage and returns to see Bhima and Duryodhana fighting. He then returns to Dvaraka. When the dark moon arrived (upavrtte), there was a strong wind filled with dust and the odor of pus.
At that moment, a sharp (pracaṇḍaḥ), frightful (bhīmaḥ) wind smelling of pus arose. Śukadeva calls to Parīkṣit in amazement.
The new-moon day is when the sages' yajña-fire should rise cleanest into the sky, and instead Balvala's stink-wind sweeps across it like a bucket of pus poured over an altar. The pure offering brāhmaṇas raise toward Kṛṣṇa is precisely what the demonic mood wants to foul; Balarāma comes to that arena because the protection of yajña is His own work.
In the previous chapter the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya had told Lord Balarāma that on every parva day for a long time the demon Balvala had been polluting their twelve-year sacrifice with showers of pus, blood and wine. They begged Him to free the yajña-bhūmi.
Balarāma, halāyudha, did not refuse. The pilgrimage that fills this chapter begins from that promise — He waits for the new moon at Naimiṣa first, slays the polluter of the sacrifice, and only then turns south. The whole tīrtha-yātrā is bracketed by yajña-protection.
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