Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.30.33
ముషలావశేషాయ:ఖణ్డకృతేషుర్లుబ్ధకో జరా ।
మృగాస్యాకారం తచ్చరణం వివ్యాధ మృగశఙ్కయా ॥ ౩౩ ॥
muṣalāvaśeṣāyaḥ-khaṇḍa-
[mushalaavasheshaayah-khanda-]
kṛteṣur lubdhako jarā
[kriteshur lubdhako jaraa]
mṛgāsyākāraṁ tac-caraṇaṁ
[mrigaasyaakaaram tach-charanam]
vivyādha mṛga-śaṅkayā
[vivyaadha mriga-shankayaa]
Word-for-word
muṣala
—
from the iron club
avaśeṣa
—
remaining
ayaḥ
—
of iron
khaṇḍa
—
with the fragment
kṛta
—
who had made
iṣuḥ
—
his arrow
lubdhakaḥ
—
the hunter
jarā
—
named Jarā
mṛga
—
of a deer
āsya
—
of the face
ākāram
—
having the form
tat
—
His
caraṇam
—
lotus foot
vivyādha
—
pierced
mṛga-śaṅkayā
—
thinking it to be a deer.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
muṣalāvaśeṣāyaḥ-khaṇḍa-
muṣala
from the iron club
avaśeṣa
remaining
ayaḥ
of iron
khaṇḍa
with the fragment
kṛteṣur lubdhako jarā
kṛta
who had made
iṣuḥ
his arrow
lubdhakaḥ
the hunter
jarā
named Jarā
mṛgāsyākāraṁ tac-caraṇaṁ
mṛga
of a deer
āsya
of the face
ākāram
having the form
tat
His
caraṇam
lotus foot
vivyādha mṛga-śaṅkayā
vivyādha
pierced
mṛga-śaṅkayā
thinking it to be a deer.
Just then a hunter named Jarā, who had approached the place, mistook the Lord’s foot for a deer’s face. Thinking he had found his prey, Jarā pierced the foot with his arrow, which he had fashioned from the remaining iron fragment of Sāmba’s club.
Purport
According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, the statement that the arrow “pierced the Lord’s foot” expresses the point of view of the hunter, who thought he had struck a deer. In fact the arrow merely touched the Lord’s lotus foot and did not pierce it, since the Lord’s limbs are composed of eternity, knowledge and bliss. Otherwise, in the description of the next verse (that the hunter became fearful and fell down with his head upon the Lord’s feet), Śukadeva Gosvāmī would have stated that he extracted his arrow from the Lord’s foot.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Just then a hunter named Jarā, who had approached the place, mistook the Lord’s foot for a deer’s face. Jarā pierced the foot with his arrow, which he had fashioned from the remaining iron fragment of Sāmba’s club.
He pierced his foot. This means that the hunter Jarā thought that he had shot a deer. Actually his arrow only touched Kṛṣṇa’s foot but did not pierce it, since the Lord’s limbs are eternity, knowledge and bliss. Otherwise when the hunter in fear placed his head on the Lord’s foot, as explained in the next verse, he would have taken out the arrow.
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