Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.83.35
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śārṅga - cyuta - bāṇa - oghaiḥ
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by the floods of arrows shot from Śārṅga
Śārṅga (bow) + cyuta (shot, released) + bāṇa (arrow) + ogha (flood). The same Śārṅga of verse 32, now in full deployment. Note: ogha is the word also used for the flood of saṁsāra — Kṛṣṇa's arrows are the corresponding flood that cuts saṁsāra.
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kṛtta - bāhu - aṅghri - kandharāḥ
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whose arms, legs, and necks were severed
Kṛtta (cut) + bāhu (arm) + aṅghri (leg) + kandhara (neck). Three points of human-pride severance. Gauḍīya commentators note: Bhagavān's arrows cut the obstructing limbs — arms that would have held weapons, legs that would have pursued, necks that would have bobbed in defiance.
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santyajya dudruvuḥ
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abandoning (the fight), they fled
Sam + tyaj (to fully give up) + dudruvuḥ (they ran). The second class of suitors: not the dead, but the surrendered. They give up the fight and run. The Lord lets them go — He had no quarrel with them beyond their attempt to obstruct.
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pradhane
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on the battlefield
Pradhana — battle, principal engagement. Same field that had been the wedding-hall thirty verses ago. Gauḍīya commentators: the Lord's līlā compresses opposites — the same ground becomes wedding-hall and battle-ground without travelling.
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nipetuḥ
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they fell
Ni (down) + √pat (fall). Echo of verse 22's petuḥ — those who could not even string the bow had fallen earlier; these fall now, struck by the same bow they could not handle. The verse closes the contest's symmetry.
Some fell in the battlefield and others gave up the battlefield and fled.
By the mass of arrows emanating as if by themselves from his bow, some kings had their arms severed, some had their feet severed and some had their heads severed. Or, simultaneously they had their arms, legs and heads severed. First he cut off their arms which held weapons for fighting and then cut off their legs to make them fall down. To make them die swiftly he cut off their heads. This indicates swiftness of his arrows. They fell down permanently (ni—petuḥ) on the battlefield—dead. Giving up the battlefield completely (sam—tyajya), going far away some, some swiftly fled.
Śārṅga's arrows came in floods — bāṇa-oghaiḥ. The same bow that pierced one hidden fish now releases torrents. Arms, legs, necks severed; the rest run. The Lord's response to obstruction is precise: He does not destroy out of anger; He removes the obstruction. The road must be clear because the bride is on the chariot.
My note
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