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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.7.24

యస్మా అదాదుదధిరూఢభయాఙ్గవేపో మార్గం సపద్యరిపురం హరవద్ దిధక్షో: । దూరే సుహృన్మథితరోషసుశోణద‍ృష్టయ‍ా తాతప్యమానమకరోరగనక్రచక్ర: ॥ ౨౪ ॥
yasmā adād udadhir ūḍha-bhayāṅga-vepo
[yasmaa adaad udadhir oodha-bhayaanga-vepo]
mārgaṁ sapady ari-puraṁ haravad didhakṣoḥ
[maargam sapady ari-puram haravad didhakshoh]
dūre suhṛn-mathita-roṣa-suśoṇa-dṛṣṭyā
[doore suhrin-mathita-rosha-sushona-drishtyaa]
tātapyamāna-makaroraga-nakra-cakraḥ
[taatapyamaana-makaroraga-nakra-chakrah]
yasmai — unto whom adāt — gave udadhiḥ — the great Indian Ocean ūḍha-bhaya — affected by fear aṅga-vepaḥ — bodily trembling mārgam — way sapadi — quickly ari-puram — the city of the enemy hara-vat — like that of Hara (Mahādeva) didhakṣoḥ — desiring to burn to ashes dūre — at a long distance su-hṛt — intimate friend mathita — being aggrieved by roṣa — in anger su-śoṇa — red-hot dṛṣṭyā — by such a glance tātapyamāna — burning in heat makara — sharks uraga — snakes nakra — crocodiles cakraḥ — circle.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
yasmā adād udadhir ūḍha-bhayāṅga-vepo
yasmai
unto whom
adāt
gave
udadhiḥ
the great Indian Ocean
ūḍha-bhaya
affected by fear
aṅga-vepaḥ
bodily trembling
mārgaṁ sapady ari-puraṁ haravad didhakṣoḥ
mārgam
way
sapadi
quickly
ari-puram
the city of the enemy
hara-vat
like that of Hara (Mahādeva)
didhakṣoḥ
desiring to burn to ashes
dūre suhṛn-mathita-roṣa-suśoṇa-dṛṣṭyā
dūre
at a long distance
su-hṛt
intimate friend
mathita
being aggrieved by
roṣa
in anger
su-śoṇa
red-hot
dṛṣṭyā
by such a glance
tātapyamāna-makaroraga-nakra-cakraḥ
tātapyamāna
burning in heat
makara
sharks
uraga
snakes
nakra
crocodiles
cakraḥ
circle.
The Personality of Godhead Rāmacandra, being aggrieved for His distant intimate friend [Sītā], glanced over the city of the enemy Rāvaṇa with red-hot eyes like those of Hara [who wanted to burn the kingdom of heaven]. The great ocean, trembling in fear, gave Him His way because its family members, the aquatics like the sharks, snakes and crocodiles, were being burnt by the heat of the angry red-hot eyes of the Lord.

The Personality of Godhead has every sentiment of a sentient being, like all other living beings, because He is the chief and original living entity, the supreme source of all other living beings. He is the nitya, or the chief eternal amongst all other eternals. He is the chief one, and all others are the dependent many. The many eternals are supported by the one eternal, and thus both the eternals are qualitatively one. Due to such oneness, both the eternals constitutionally have a complete range of sentiments, but the difference is that the sentiments of the chief eternal are different in quantity from the sentiments of the dependent eternals. When Rāmacandra was angry and showed His red-hot eyes, the whole ocean became heated with that energy, so much so that the aquatics within the great ocean felt the heat, and the personified ocean trembled in fear and offered the Lord an easy path for reaching the enemy’s city. The impersonalists will see havoc in this red-hot sentiment of the Lord because they want to see negation in perfection. Because the Lord is absolute, the impersonalists imagine that in the Absolute the sentiment of anger, which resembles mundane sentiments, must be conspicuous by absence. Due to a poor fund of knowledge, they do not realize that the sentiment of the Absolute Person is transcendental to all mundane concepts of quality and quantity. Had Lord Rāmacandra’s sentiment been of mundane origin, how could it disturb the whole ocean and its inhabitants? Can any mundane red-hot eye generate heat in the great ocean? These are factors to be distinguished in terms of the personal and impersonal conceptions of the Absolute Truth. As it is said in the beginning of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Absolute Truth is the source of everything, so the Absolute Person cannot be devoid of the sentiments that are reflected in the temporary mundane world. Rather, the different sentiments found in the Absolute, either in anger or in mercy, have the same qualitative influence, or, in other words, there is no mundane difference of value because these sentiments are all on the absolute plane. Such sentiments are definitely not absent in the Absolute, as the impersonalists think, making their mundane estimation of the transcendental world.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The ocean, trembling in fear, filled with groups of crocodiles, snakes and makaras burning from his hot glances caused by his rising anger which was due to separation from Sītā who was far away, immediately gave a path to Rāma, who desired to burn Laṅka, just as Śiva burned Tripura.
Commentary

The ocean, trembling in fear, gave a path to Rāma, who desired to burn Laṅka, just as Śiva burned Tripura. The possessive case (didhakṣoḥ) here represents the dative case. That ocean was filled with groups of crocodiles, snakes and makaras which were scorched by his red glances, caused by his frightening anger, which was due to separation from Sītā (suhṛn) who was far away.

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