Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.47
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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marīceḥ
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of Marīci
Genitive of Marīci — one of the seven primary ṛṣis (the Saptarṣi), among the mind-born sons of Brahmā. The six children whose long karmic arc Kṛṣṇa is about to narrate were originally celestial sages.
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ūrṇāyām
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in Ūrṇā (his wife)
Locative of Ūrṇā — Marīci's wife in the first Manvantara. The Bhāgavatam's precision: even minor characters in the deep past receive proper names.
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prathame antare
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in the first Manvantara
Compound + locative: 'in the first interval of Manu'. A unit of cosmic time. The crime that produced this six-fold birth occurred at the dawn of the present kalpa.
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jahasuḥ
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they laughed
Perfect plural of √has. The fatal act. Gauḍīyas read this verse as a strong warning: laughter at the wrong subject — even at one's own grandfather Brahmā — can detonate aeons of consequence.
In this verse Krsna explains his reason for coming in five verses. In the womb of Urna, the wife of Marici, during the manvantara of Svayambhuva Manu, his six sons seeing Brahma (kam) eager for relations with his daughter Sarasvati, laughed.
Kṛṣṇa gives an introduction so that his request will be accepted. The request comes later. Though the sons were devatās they laughed at Brahmā.
Since what he requested was most difficult, the Lord did not give an answer, but satisfied him by relating the purpose of his coming. This is explained in three verses. Though they were devatās they laughed at Brahmā.
A laugh aimed at the wrong moment plants a curse like a seed: the sons of Marīci, all luminous devas, mocked Brahmā at a vulnerable instant and immediately fell into demonic wombs. The story Bhagavān is about to unfold is a long arc of how this seed eventually flowered back into liberation through Devakī's milk.
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