Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.89.37
న్యరుణత్ సూతికాగారం శరైర్నానాస్త్రయోజితై: ।
తిర్యగూర్ధ్వమధ: పార్థశ్చకార శరపఞ్జరమ్ ॥ ౩౭ ॥
nyaruṇat sūtikāgāraṁ
[nyarunat sootikaagaaram]
śarair nānāstra-yojitaiḥ
[sharair naanaastra-yojitaih]
tiryag ūrdhvam adhaḥ pārthaś
[tiryag oordhvam adhah paarthash]
cakāra śara-pañjaram
[chakaara shara-panjaram]
Word-for-word
nyaruṇat
—
he enveloped
sūtikā - āgāram
—
the house where the birth was taking place
śaraiḥ
—
with arrows
nānā
—
various
astra
—
to missiles
yojitaiḥ
—
attached
tiryak
—
horizontally
ūrdhvam
—
upwards
adhaḥ
—
downwards
pārthaḥ
—
Arjuna
cakāra
—
made
śara
—
of arrows
pañjaram
—
a cage .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
nyaruṇat sūtikāgāraṁ
nyaruṇat
he enveloped
sūtikā - āgāram
the house where the birth was taking place
śarair nānāstra-yojitaiḥ
śaraiḥ
with arrows
nānā
various
astra
to missiles
yojitaiḥ
attached
tiryag ūrdhvam adhaḥ pārthaś
tiryak
horizontally
ūrdhvam
upwards
adhaḥ
downwards
pārthaḥ
Arjuna
cakāra śara-pañjaram
cakāra
made
śara
of arrows
pañjaram
a cage .
Important Words
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sūtikā-āgāram
—
birthing room
Compound: sūtikā (childbirth) + āgāra (chamber). The specific architectural locus. Gauḍīyas note the precision — Arjuna's protection is geographically exact and still bypassed, because the disappearance is not spatial.
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śara-pañjaram
—
cage of arrows
Compound: śara (arrow) + pañjara (cage). A celebrated battlefield technique — enclosing a space in arrows. Mahābhārata uses the term for Bhīṣma's bed of arrows; here for Arjuna's protective dome.
-
tiryak-ūrdhvam-adhaḥ
—
sideways, upward, downward
Three directions — the verse names the full 3D enclosure. The Bhāgavatam emphasizes the completeness so that the failure cannot be reduced to 'he missed a direction.'
Arjuna fenced in the house where the birth was taking place by shooting arrows attached to various missiles. Thus the son of Pṛthā constructed a protective cage of arrows, covering the house upwards, downwards and sideways.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Arjuna fenced in the house where the birth was taking place by shooting arrows attached to various missiles. Thus the son of Pṛthā constructed a protective cage of arrows, covering the house upwards, downwards and sideways.
Jīva Gosvāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
He used brahmāstras of various types.
Śrīdhara Svāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
He shot arrows endowed with various missiles or with various mantras.
Related values & verses
Related values
Daya (Compassion / Mercy)Adambhitva (Non-hypocrisy / Authenticity)Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)
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BG 5.18
BG 8.4
BG 14.12
BG 14.1
BG 12.1
BG 18.37
BG 1.21
BG 11.1
BG 3.3
SB 1.2BG 12.3
BG 4.8
BG 15.9
Concepts
Jiva
Personal Guidance
Analogy
Arjuna builds a cage of arrows — sideways, upward, downward — enclosing the birthing house in a śara-pañjara. It is the strongest defensive grid a warrior can construct in space. The Bhāgavatam, having made the cage maximally tight, now lets the infant pass straight through it — because the call did not come from any of the six directions.
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